The deadline to apply for this role is Friday 20 December 2024. However, if we receive high numbers of applications before this date we will close the role. We therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Once you have submitted your application, please complete your online assessments as soon as possible. In January 2025, we will review all successful applications and advance the strongest candidates to the next stage.
Forvis Mazars: who are we?
Forvis Mazars LLP is the UK firm of Forvis Mazars Group. In the UK we have over 3,300 employees across 14 locations, delivering an outstanding client experience. Forvis Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development. You can find out more about our firm here.
Advisory & Consulting at Forvis Mazars
At Forvis Mazars, our Advisory and Consulting service line is an award winning, global group of successful, entrepreneurial teams. The scope of roles across our service line is broad and varied which is great for our team and clients. The diversity of our service offering enables us to make the time we spend with our clients count by helping them take meaningful, key decisions with confidence and meet their goals.
In Advisory & Consulting, collaboration is at the core of all we do. We have over 700 experts across our teams who operate as subject matter experts across our 7 business units: Crisis and Disputes, Deals and Financing, Financial Services Consulting, Management Consulting, Infrastructure Energy, Sustainability Services and Digital and Risk Insurance, with the aim of adding value to clients by finding solutions to a range of financial issues as one collaborative team.
Join a team that prioritises quality and trust. Our team is commercial, pragmatic, and reactive to the changes in the market whilst also taking the time to ensure our approach is personal and productive.
About the Management Consulting Team
The Forvis Mazars Management Consulting team provides a wide range of services and solutions to our clients in order to transform their business.
As a Business Analyst, you will gain early exposure to clients as you build up your core skills. Our clients range in size from large multinationals to small owner-managed businesses across multiple sectors throughout the UK and abroad, as well as public sector bodies and charities. Our primary focus is around clients' finance and operations functions, although we perform projects in many other areas.
We operate under a hybrid working model, so as a trainee you will split your time between working from home, visiting the office, client sites when required or studying for your professional qualification.
Hear from one of our graduate trainees, Samantha:
"Working in the Management Consulting team has afforded me ample opportunity to support clients from multiple industries, with varying challenges. Participating in a wide range of projects, I have been able to gain experiential knowledge, employ an innovative mindset towards problems-solving, and learn new skills along the way. Moreover, I have been empowered to take on as much responsibility as I feel ready for on engagements, allowing me to build confidence immensely in my very first year here!"
About the role
As a post-graduate trainee here's what will await you during your three-year training contract:
During your first year you will:
- Develop a holistic understanding of how businesses operate and what their common problems are;-
- Gain early responsibility, meeting clients and leading interviews to understand what does and does not work well while building rapport;
- and- Identify underlying issues and provide bespoke recommendations by writing comprehensive reports.
During your second year you will:
- Take up a greater role in client engagements, leading workshops and analysis;
- Begin to identify further opportunities with both existing and new clients;
- and- Support the development of less experienced team members.
In your third year you will:
- Become a trusted advisor to our clients and actively develop opportunities with new clients;-
- ndependently produce client deliverables, with minimal review points from senior colleagues;
- Take an active role in project management, ensuring deliverables meet the expected scope and quality requirements within the agreed deadlines and budgets.
While our projects are varied and no two days are the same, we typically structure our projects through the delivery of one of the following solutions:
- Helping our clients define their long-term vision and assess the strategic and financial benefits of the opportunities available to them.
- Appraising our clients' options by analysing their risks, benefits and cost implications, and documenting these in a business case.
- Working with our clients to ensure team structures are aligned to overall strategy, optimised for cost and performance efficiency, and facilitate a purposeful culture with an engaged team.
- Adding value to our clients' business processes to reduce costs while enhancing control, quality, and speed.
- Improving decision making by building effective financial models and deriving actionable insights from clients' business data.
- Working with management to develop a comprehensive 100-day plan which facilitates the smooth integration of a newly acquired firm.
- Helping our clients successfully deliver projects and programmes that embed sustainable change within their organisation.
You're joining us as a permanent employee, so the 3 years is only the beginning of your exceptional career journey at Forvis Mazars.
Who we're looking for
Essential requirements
- On track or have obtained an post-graduate degree in a finance or business-related field. Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. You can read about our approach to academics in our FAQs.
Additional requirements
- Deep curiosity to learn new things and is naturally inquisitive;
- The ability to think critically solve problems and share knowledge with others;
- A commitment to self-development and learning;
- Strong sense of ownership of duties and high levels of responsibility to deliver on promises;
- Always looks to try their best in all they do and always looking for ways to improve;
- Enjoys meeting and engaging with new people with an underlying respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity;
- Works well under pressure and have a positive ‘can-do' attitude if faced with challenging situations;
- Excellent time management skills;
- A willingness to travel and adhere to our flexible working environment.
Learning and development
Our supportive culture includes coaching, mentorship, and one-on-one guidance. You will be allocated a buddy before joining who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Forvis Mazars.
You will also receive comprehensive quality training and development to excel in your professional career; this includes development in professional excellence, client excellence, digital excellence, and technical excellence. Our goal is to support you in reaching your full potential and become a standout talent. To understand more read our FAQs.
Inclusion and diversity
Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond, is fully supported to be their unique self and provided with a level playing field.
Next steps
Roles will be closed as soon as we find the right people, so to avoid disappointment we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. If you are an international applicant and/or require a visa please view our FAQs before applying to be aware of deadlines and important information you need to know before applying.