Situated in the heart of Britain’s IT corridor, the Reading office presents fantastic opportunities for graduates interested in developing careers working with a truly diverse client base.  Our people find themselves in a unique position where they are provided with the opportunity to work with a variety of companies ranging from the largest FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 brands to privately owned fast moving entrepreneurial business across all industry sectors.  Our globally diverse client base provides our graduates with opportunities to coordinate with our other UK as well as global offices, thereby assisting their development as a 21^st century professional.

The Reading office is the largest office outside London and has around 600 people working across all four of our service lines (Audit, Tax, Consulting and Corporate Finance).  This means the opportunities to learn and grow are endless. 

We encourage our people to work with their counterparts in other service lines right from the start of their career with us.  We offer office-wide initiatives to promote networking to help develop business and professional skills vital to everybody’s success (which also leads to developing some lifelong friendships!).

New joiners can expect a wealth of support upon joining Deloitte.  Every new joiner is paired with a ‘buddy’ who mentors and offers support in the initial weeks and months.  There are regular training sessions and constant professional development is encouraged and delivered across the grades.

Aside from the fantastic professional development opportunities, Reading is at the forefront of leading our Corporate Social Responsibility projects.  We have both formal and informal charity support arrangements in place.  We encourage our people to actively participate in such opportunities and the firm allows each individual to spend 3.5 hours each month specifically on community investment projects.  Our office often participates in “Community Investment” days – where the whole office spends a day with a number of different charities in the region doing things like painting, gardening and building – just giving something back to our local community.  Our people also have the opportunity to participate in a number of nationally acclaimed charity events – be that the annual Paralympic “Ride Across Britain” event or climbing Kilimanjaro!

Given the unique size of our Reading office, each graduate is presented with the fantastic chance to gain greater exposure to senior members of teams and therefore enable them to interact and gain experience from them on a regular basis.  As a firm we are supportive of agile working and our people are actively encouraged to take advantage of the flexibility the firm offers us

The Reading office is the ideal place of choice for anyone looking to explore differential opportunities within the Big 4.  Our size and breadth means that we can offer an unparalleled opportunity to all of our people to professionally develop in a way that’s personal to them – allowing each individual to achieve their career and life aspirations. 

Anita Grant, Tax Partner in Reading

Anita is the Partner leading the SE Executive Remuneration team and has been advising remuneration committees and companies on reward strategy, share and incentive scheme design, and developing tax efficient and commercially effective pay structures in the UK and many other jurisdictions for over 15 years.

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