Life at Grant Thornton
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive. Besides a competitive salary, you'll receive our core benefits and a range of voluntary benefits to choose from focused on health, family and wellbeing.
We’re revolutionising our reward model with our Employee Benefit Trust (EBT).
When choosing to take external investment with Cinven, our partners voted to set aside a substantial amount of equity to reward senior talent below partner grade – the only UK professional services firm of our size to do this.
If you join the firm as a manager or above, as a permanent employee, you will be allocated equity units through our EBT – at no cost to you. As the firm’s enterprise value increases, so does the value of the EBT, and when we go through a secondary transaction the value will be released to you.
Hear more from our Head of Operations, Fiona Baldwin and Audit Partner, Becky Eagle.
Core benefits
- Life cover
- Income protection
- Matched pension
- Private medical, including anytime access to:
- Doctor@Hand
- Stronger Minds
- Professional subscriptions
In addition...
Our employee assistance programme gives you access to a free and confidential service offering you expert advice, valuable information, specialist counselling and support (24 hours, 7 days a week).
Flexible benefits
Some benefits can be chosen at any time, while others are available during our annual enrolment window or after a qualifying life event. Our flexible benefits are grouped into three pillars Money, Health, and Life, to help you tailor your package to your needs.
Eligibility and availability of some benefits may depend on your role, grade, or length of service. Full details are provided when you receive your benefits invitation.
We also have an employee referral scheme and a recognition scheme, so that we can thank you for referring great talent to the firm, and spotlight the achievements and impact you make every day.
Money
- Financial resources
- Mortgage advice
- Investment accounts
- Will writing
- Critical illness cover
- Employee benefit trust
- Enhanced income protection and life cover
- Pension bonus sacrifice
- Personal accident
Health
- Genetic insights
- Health screening
- Dental cover
- Eyecare
- Flu vouchers
- Gym discounts
- Life stage support
- Wellbeing resources
- Cancer screening
Life
- Buy holiday
- Bike schemes
- Carer support services
- Charitable giving
- Technology
- Tree planting and sustainability initiatives
- Travel cover
- Discounts and cashback
- Railcards and season ticket loans
Flexible working and policies
We view our flexible and agile working practices and family policies as part of our culture, rather than a "benefit". Many of our people experience this as a major advantage of working at Grant Thornton.
The time you spend outside of work helps shape what you can bring to our firm. We value the commitments you may have outside of work and all of our people have an immediate right to request a flexible working arrangement under our flexible working policy.
Our policies
How we do things is just as important as what we do. We trust and empower our people and expect them to use their judgment to make intentional decisions that drive our business forwards.
If you’re high performing, responsible and dedicated you’ll be treated as such, and our culture of two-way flexibility allows you to thrive inside and outside of work. We encourage our people to explore, within their teams, how they can work in an agile way which allows them to be at their best, deliver high-quality work and meet their responsibilities in and outside of work.
Here's a selection of some of our key family and flexibility policies (subject to eligibility):
- Flexible bank holidays: choose when to take your public holidays throughout the year, enabling you to celebrate those occasions important to you.
- Birthday leave: take the day off on us to enjoy your birthday celebrations.
- Maternity leave: up to a year off with enhanced pay (significantly above the statutory minimum), plus reasonable paid time off for antenatal care and return to work coaching.
- Paternity leave: up to 12 weeks off, with enhanced pay (significantly above the statutory minimum), plus reasonable paid time off to attend antenatal appointments and adoption meetings.
- Adoption and surrogacy leave: up to a year off, with enhanced pay (significantly above the statutory minimum), plus reasonable paid time off to attend adoption meetings and return to work coaching.
- Shared parental leave: parents can share leave and pay with their partner.
- Neonatal leave: fully paid leave if your baby requires ongoing neonatal care soon after birth.
- Carers leave: up to five days' paid leave to help you juggle caring commitments.
- Fertility treatment leave: reasonable discretionary paid time off.
- Pregnancy and baby loss leave: reasonable discretionary paid time off.
- Sabbaticals and unpaid leave: take time out to pursue personal interests, travel, spend time with your family or simply have a break.
- Study leave: you may be eligible if you join us on a training or study agreement.
- Volunteering: paid time off for volunteering activities.
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Celebrating our inclusive culture
Stonewall LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer
Working Families Top 10 Employer
Employee Index Top 75 Employer
Black Talent Charter
Top 10 Muslim Employee Networks
Disability Confident Leader
Inclusive Employers
Menopause Workplace Pledge
The Prince's Responsible Business Network
Women in Finance Charter