2025 Audit Graduate Programme - South East
Locations: Reading
Salary: £31,000
Applications close: 18th May 2025
Programme starts: 22nd September 2025
About Audit
Solving challenges. Ensuring transparent financial information. Enabling business decisions.
Doing work that directly impacts our economy – and people all over the world. It’s all a day in the life of an audit professional at BDO.
Here, your work matters from day one. Alongside audit experts, you’ll be part of a team that delivers high-quality reporting that drives important decisions. It’s varied and it’s challenging, so you’ll need to be a curious, driven person who wants to learn as much as possible and take pride in your work. Look forward to celebrating your wins, pulling together as a team, learning the business world inside out, and making a real difference – for society and your career.
About the Audit Graduate Programme
Over three years, you’ll get hands-on experience on a variety of projects, balance your work and your studies, and achieve a globally recognised ACA qualification. With the support of BDO’s subject-matter experts, you’ll gain a range of personal, management, and commercial skills that take you from a graduate to a well-rounded professional. You’ll need to be inquisitive. Hungry for knowledge. And keen to rise to the challenges our high-performing audit team faces.
The breadth of what we do here is massive – so you’ll gain a deep understanding of a huge range of sectors and organisations. They’re also inclusive, passionate team members, who will support and challenge you every day to produce your best work, as your best self. Discover beyond the ordinary – for your skills, your professional network, and your career.
About you
Wherever you work with us, you’ll need to be curious, resilient, and adaptable, with a desire to be held accountable. We’re big on relationship-building across all our teams, so we’ll help you build excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Bring a data mindset, strong logical and analytical skills, and critical thinking – we’ll give you the tools and training to develop everything else you'll need, in a role to be proud of.
Due to the current minimum salary requirements set by the Home Office we are only able to offer sponsorship in some of our office locations. You and the role you are applying for must meet the UK Home Office visa eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa. You can check the eligibility criteria before you apply for a career with us, by clicking here.
Programme-specific requirements:
• A 2:2 degree in any discipline (obtained or predicted)
• Three A-levels or equivalent at A*-C excluding General Studies and Extended Projects (obtained or predicted)
• 9-4 in Maths and English at GCSE/Scottish Standards or equivalent
• Ability and commitment to balance study and professional work
About BDO
Operating out of 18 locations across the UK, we’re one of the world’s largest accounting and business advisory firms – but we’re so much more than that. The ambitious, high-growth businesses we work with boost the economy, and our people’s careers. This is where you’ll provide meaningful advice and solutions. Build thriving businesses. Feel respected at all times. Learn. Grow. And go beyond the ordinary – because your development is our priority.
Accountancy isn’t what you think it is. It’s dynamic, hands-on, and collaborative. The best part? The people. We’re a friendly, diverse bunch who work hard to achieve the best outcomes – and love to celebrate when we do. It’s one of the ways we prioritise wellbeing, along with agile, flexible working and extensive benefits that cover your lifestyle, money, and all aspects of your health. We’re all about supporting you to be your best, inside and outside of work.
Discover life at BDO from all angles – the office, corporate sites, or occasionally, your home. We’ll need you to join us in the office so we can best support your development, so ensure you’re a commutable distance away.
How far can you go when you go beyond the ordinary? Join us today.
Our firm is distinctive because we preserve and build on the strengths of our culture and the characteristics that make us successful and different. We look for people from all kinds of backgrounds who share these same qualities.
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What We Do
BDO UK provides tax, audit and assurance, advisory and business outsourcing services to companies across all sectors of the economy. We make the time and effort to understand our clients’ businesses and markets. Our partners and staff are specialists in their fields and have a proactive, flexible approach to helping clients overcoming the challenges they face. We aim to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as our clients. Our approach and expertise are what help us deliver exceptional client service. 95% of our clients would recommend us. We operate from 18 offices, covering all major business centres, so that we can be close to our clients. We employ 7,500 people who are allowed to be themselves; taking responsibility for their work and their relationships with clients. All our people share core values that underpin both our culture and the value that we bring to our clients. BDO LLP is a key member of the BDO global network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms. The firms have representation in 164 territories, with 95,400 people working out of 1,710 offices. Being a member of the BDO global network allows us to meet the needs of clients who are growing and trading internationally.
