Grant Thornton UK LLP Associate Reviews

Pros

Inclusive, ambitious and worthy vision.
Strong values based culture - doing the right thing.
Great people.
Great clients.
Flat hierarchy and approachable leadership.
Exciting future.

Advice to Management

Keep the focus on Vision 2020.

Pros

Grant Thornton really encourages you to bring your whole self to work. They really care for their people and will ecourage you to get involved in whatever you feel passionate about whether that be mentoring less fortunate individuals, cleaning up the river Thames or supporting co-workers with mental health issues.

Advice to Management

The behaviours and attitudes of those teams which foster talent and support their members needs to be copied and enforced accross the firm consistently.

Pros

For me Grant Thornton represents an environment in which there is an uncapped potential to learn and develop and where team and culture is of the utmost importance.

Pros

Forward-looking and wonderful female CEO
Excellent corporate culture
Helpful and supportive partners
Treats staff fairly
Flexible working arrangements
Good with staff with children
Excellent client base
Interesting and highly varied work
High quality of outputs and deliverables
Likeable firm
Good cafeteria!

Advice to Management

Keep on competing with the Big4 for people and talent, we are every bit as good, and our clients love what we do

Pros

Grant Thornton have the right vision, that of a vibrant economy, they are looking to work with people prepared to open their mind and support like minded organisations look for gorwth

Advice to Management

implement 360 reviews to get real feedback

Pros

Supportive environment from all of your colleagues. People understand what it’s like to be in your position as most were only a few years ago

Pros

Amazing training and experience in the field. Lots of opportunity to work on diverse clients and industry’s. Competitive salary, and opportunity to manage and take charge of projects quickly.

Advice to Management

Take care of your people, and the people will take care of the work. Leaders are required to lead, people will follow if there is a desire to, not if they have an obligation to.

Pros

Best things about working at Grant Thornton are:
- flexibility and being able to plan your time around you and the trust that people give you to get the job done;
- people are on the whole all approachable, very nice and are all working to deliver the best job;
- if you push yourself and pro active you can climb the ranks quickly; and
- work is interesting and two engagements are never the same.

Advice to Management

Less time on brand, more time on engaging with clients and developing people.

Pros

There are fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career at Grant Thornton. The business is growing and means that as individuals we can grow to as people and advisors.

We talk a lot about 'unlocking the potential for growth' in our clients but were certainly do what we say, by trusting employees to act autonomously to get the work done and enhance your career. Using our flexible working environments and allow individuals to seek out new opportunities in their chosen field or in other areas within Grant Thornton.

Grant Thornton is big enough to have a large corporate feel but small enough that you can get to know people on a personal level across a number of offices.

Advice to Management

To grow the business we need to pull our internal resources and be the best at what we do and try not to compete with the big 4 on areas where we lack the experience or expertise. By trying to compete it may damage our reputation in the long term.

Pros

Good working environment, varied clients and likeminded colleagues. Graduate programme is well structured and you complete the ACA.

Advice to Management

Improve the standardisation of approach, what's expected, and appraisal process. The first year was under-challenging, and didn't prepare well for demands of in charging teams.