Invitation from PWC South Africa to unemployed graduates to apply for Graduate Internship Programme 2025.
Due Date: 30 June 2025
Placement: South Africa
We offer a three-year Graduate Programme, during which you will receive on-site training and valuable real business work experience. During your career with us you will get to work with a young, driven, supportive team in a fun, friendly and professional environment. You can expect excellent mentorship, stretch assignments and international exposure early in your career.
You’ll be You will be working on a variety of projects across a range of industries including the life insurance, short-term insurance, banking, employee benefits and analytics industries to name a few.
The following Graduate Opportunities are open for applications:
- SAP: Digital Trust Graduate Programme
Currently pursuing an honours degree in one of the following disciplines:
- Computer Science
- BCom (IS), or Accounting
- BSc IT
- Management accounting
- Internal Auditing
- Business Science
- Risk Management
- Engineering
2. Forensics Graduate Programme
A relevant qualification in one of the following:
- BCom Forensic Accounting (Honours)
- LLB Law
- BCom Internal Audit (Honours)
- BCom Law (Honours)
- BCom Accounting (Honours) – Non-CA route
- BA Criminology (Honours)
- BA Forensic Science and Technology (Honours)
- BCom Risk Management (Honours)
- BCom Economics / Econometrics (Honours)
- BCom General (Honours)
3. Quantitative Risk Graduate Programme
The following degrees will be considered.
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Engineering
- Mathematical Finance
- Mathematics
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Actuarial Science
- Mathematical Statistics
4. Actuarial Science Graduate Programme
- Currently enrolled at an accredited tertiary institution and are in their ultimate year of their Actuarial Science degree (includes Honours and/or Masters).
5. Internal Audit (GRIA) Graduate Programme
- Candidates pursuing an honours degree in Internal Audit
6. Jump Start your career
Due Date: 2025/04/26
Ref No: PWC250326-1
Opportunity: Jump Start your career – 2025
Intake year: 2025
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Overview
Our strategy, The New Equation, is about how PwC brings together unique combinations of people, powered by technology, galvanising ourselves as a community of solvers to address those dual challenges. The foundation of the strategy is our multidisciplinary model, which allows us to help clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes by bringing together deep expertise across a broad range of capabilities.
The Jump Start Your Career programme allows you to obtain certifications in Salesforce or Microsoft and AI whilst completing your degree.
This programme also gives you an opportunity to join our South Africa Technology and Innovation Centre (SATIC) once you have completed your academic journey.
The certification gives you access to PwC resources to enable you to gain skills in digital and technical tools that will assist you in your graduate programme.
Requirements:
In your final year/Post graduate year of one of the following degrees:
- Computer Science
- BCom
- Business Science
- Information Systems- Computer studies stream, not knowledge management
With a 60% minimum cumulative average across all years of study.
To be considered for this programme you should have:
- An entrepreneurial mindset
- Be highly motivated, self-motived & self-disciplined
- A collaborative and inclusive mindset
- Be able to manage & organise yourself & your activities responsibly and effectively
- Critical and creative thinking to enhance problem solving abilities
- Take a systematic approach to your work
- A digital mindset and use technology effectively to deliver your work
- Excellent communication skills with high attention to detail.
COMPLETE YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION HERE
7. Foundation for the Future (FftF) – Consulting 2026
Due Date: 2025/06/30
Ref No: PWC250325-1
Opportunity: Foundation for the Future (FftF) – Consulting 2026
Intake year: 2026
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Overview
In Africa, we’re the largest provider of professional services with over 450 partners and over 10,000 people in 32 countries. This means that we’re able to provide our clients with seamless and consistent tax, assurance and advisory solutions, wherever they do business on the continent.
Our strategy, The New Equation, is about how PwC brings together unique combinations of people, powered by technology, galvanising ourselves as a community of solvers to address those dual challenges. The foundation of the strategy is our multidisciplinary model, which allows us to help clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes by bringing together deep expertise across a broad range of capabilities.
Consulting helps some of the world’s most significant organisations become even more effective in an environment where the risk of disruption is more intense than ever before. We help clients improve the way they operate; accelerate their growth; reduce their costs; manage their risks; develop their talent and change the way they do business. In doing so, we bring our collective expertise to focus on the big issues our clients are grappling with today.
You will work closely with the best in industry, finance and government in South Africa and possibly abroad, bringing fresh insights and motivation to the problems they face. Our clients might want us to help them enter new markets; address the challenges created by organisational change; or draw up a sustainability strategy that aligns their commercial objectives with broader environmental and social concerns.
You can gain experience across our consulting competencies in which we focus on the following:
- Accelerating value and enabling leading organisations to develop customer loyalty, drive growth, increase productivity, and inspire and engage the workforce. It is enabled by sub-solutions and accelerators combined with our industry-leading experience and technical subject matter experts for best-in-class digital enablement.
- Delivering an end-to-end operations transformation for our clients, including operations planning, procurement, supply chain and manufacturing.
- Delivering new ways of solving problems, creating unique experiences and accelerating business performance. Sub-solutions include analytics and AI transformation, HR transformation, cloud transformation and finance transformation.
- Helping clients to become transformative organisations, capable of radically reinventing themselves in the face of fast-moving disruption. Key priorities include enabling them to become fit for growth and ensuring they have the front- and back-office capabilities to create value, deliver their growth strategies and outperform their competitors.
Requirements:
An honours degree in any of the following fields of study:
- Engineering — all specialisations
- Economics
- Finance
- Industrial and Organisational Psychology / Labour Relations Management
- Business Science, Strategy and related fields
- Health Sciences
- Environmental Sciences and related fields
- Any IT related degree
COMPLETE YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION HERE
8. Transfer Pricing Programme (SAIT) 2026
Due Date: 2025/06/30
Ref No: PWC250311-2
Opportunity: Transfer Pricing Programme (SAIT) 2026
Intake year: 2026
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Overview
Our strategy, The New Equation, is about how PwC brings together unique combinations of people, powered by technology, galvanising ourselves as a community of solvers to address those dual challenges. The foundation of the strategy is our multidisciplinary model, which allows us to help clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes by bringing together deep expertise across a broad range of capabilities.
A career within Transfer Pricing services will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients develop compliant, tax efficient structures that help advance their business goals. You will focus on all aspects of planning, documentation planning, implementation and dispute resolution. Our team is responsible for all aspects of intercompany pricing arrangements between related business entities, including transfers of intellectual property, transfers of tangible goods, services and loans, and other financing transactions.
The PwC Tax Academy is aligned with the Transfer Pricing Tax Professional Internship of the South African Institute of Taxation (SAIT). You’ll be exposed to a wide range of assignments in transfer pricing within tax. Transfer pricing is a hot topic in international tax and you will be exposed to the best practice and theory (both from an international and local perspective).
Your career will be built in a team-oriented, open, trusting and inclusive environment. Team leaders and coaches act as mentors, helping you to make the most of your experiences so that you can grow, explore new opportunities and achieve your potential!
You will:
- Work on a range of transfer pricing assignments, reporting to managers and/or partners and advising clients on a variety of transfer pricing/tax-related issues
- Produce high-level transfer pricing opinions that add value to clients’ businesses
- Perform transfer-pricing-related pre-issuance work
- Undertake transfer pricing/tax-related research
- Assess commercial facts and apply the appropriate tax law
- Interpret tax legislation
- Liaise with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and handle transfer pricing queries raised by SARS
- Assist with benchmarking of transactions in line with international best practices
- Comply with risk management procedures
- Perform general project administration and work closely with the team to ensure client deadlines are met
- Liaise with the broader international PwC transfer pricing network on global clients
Requirements:
- Building relationships with clients.
- We’re looking for candidates who are in the postgraduate year of their tax qualification or who already have a postgraduate qualification in tax, accounting or law.
- A solid academic track record (60% aggregate) and the willingness to learn.
- A good understanding and knowledge of tax laws (familiarity with the Income Tax, VAT, Tax Administration, and Customs and Excise Acts would be an advantage).
- Excellent research skills—as a tax technical professional, experience researching business and industry trends to develop a point of view to leverage in assisting with proposals.
- Communicating in an organised and knowledgeable manner.
- Developing an awareness of firm services.
- Demonstrating flexibility in prioritising and completing tasks.
- Contributing to a positive working environment by building relationships with team members.
- Seeking guidance, clarification and feedback proactively.
- Understanding personal and team roles.
COMPLETE YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION HERE
SAP: Digital Trust Graduate Programme
Forensics Graduate Programme
Quantitative Risk Graduate Programme
Actuarial Science Graduate Programme
Internal Audit (GRIA) Graduate Programme
The PwC Professional is our global leadership development framework. It outlines the capabilities that we look for in all our people — from associate to partner level — that will help us to thrive as purpose-led and values-driven leaders.
We look for and develop these qualities in all our people:
How I lead and deliver value as a PwC Professional
Inspire
- I understand my impact and people want to work with me
Empower
- I coach and work side by side with others
Evolve
- I grow as a person and guide PwC into the future
Champions
- I commit to quality, integrity and inclusive behaviour
Builds
- I apply a business mindset to my work to increase PwC’s success
Delivers
- I collaborate across PwC to deliver quality and distinctive client experiences
About PwC
We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 149 countries with more than 370,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services.
