Advisory & Consulting - Monitoring Trustee Graduate Trainee - London

Advisory & Consulting - Monitoring Trustee Graduate Trainee - London

Advisory and Consulting at Forvis Mazars

At Forvis Mazars, our Advisory and Consulting service line is an award winning, global group of successful, entrepreneurial teams. The scope of roles across our service line is broad and varied which is great for our team and clients. The diversity of our service offering enables us to make the time we spend with our clients count by helping them take meaningful, key decisions with confidence and meet their goals.

In Advisory & Consulting, collaboration is at the core of all we do. We have over 800 experts across our teams who operate as subject matter experts across our 6 business units: Deals and Financing, Financial Services Consulting, Consulting, Infrastructure Finance, Forensics and Completion and Restructuring & Insolvency with the aim of adding value to clients by finding solutions to a range of financial issues as one collaborative team.

Join a team that prioritises quality and trust. Our team is commercial, pragmatic, and reactive to the changes in the market whilst also taking the time to ensure our approach is personal and productive.

About the Monitoring Trustee team

The Monitoring Trustee team is a dynamic consultancy team that provides services to companies and regulatory authorities in connection with remedies in a competition law context. Competition remedies are measures imposed by competition authorities (like the European Commission or the UK's Competition and Markets Authority) to address concerns that a merger or anti-competitive behaviour could harm market competition. These remedies are designed to restore or maintain effective competition.

Competition authorities around the world use monitoring trustees to ensure compliance with commitments and orders in different types of proceedings, including mergers, antitrust proceedings and state aid cases.

Our team's work primarily involves acting as an independent monitoring trustee during and after merger control and anti-trust investigations by competition authorities, assessing and reporting on companies' compliance with remedies. Such remedies may be structural (requiring divestment processes and purchaser approvals) or behavioural (for example, pricing commitments or access to technology, assets and services). We also monitor the continuing viability of businesses and oversee compliance with interim measures that require information to be ring-fenced and businesses to be held separate (pending a decision or divestment).

Our diverse multidisciplinary team, located in London, includes lawyers, accountants, economists and former officials with competition authorities as well as generalists. We work with a multinational, blue chip client base and are regularly appointed in relation to complex and high profile cases with leading competition authorities around the world.

About the role

The role of a Consultant is to support the team through all aspects of the project lifecycle: from winning assignments through project planning, information gathering, exploration of relevant compliance issues, financial and/or legal analysis and preparation of deliverables including drafting official reports. You will be also involved in non-client activities such as broader business development, internal projects and research initiatives.

We operate a hybrid working model, so as a consultant you will split your time between the office and working from home, in line with the team's policy.

We will support you to develop the knowledge and skills required for the role, including a strong understanding of (i) monitoring trustee services, (ii) the monitoring of behavioural and structural remedies and (iii) a variety of industries. We will also guide you to develop an appropriate communication style for our role.

As a Consultant, you will support more senior members of the team on client projects which involve monitoring parties' compliance with commitments offered to competition authorities in the UK, EU and globally.

When you first join us, typically your responsibilities will include:

• attend, and produce records of, internal and external meetings;
• support client onboarding activities; and
• In addition, you will contribute to non-chargeable work in the team, including client proposals and business development opportunities.

Your mix of work will depend on the demands of the team's current assignments and your own background and skillset (for example, your understanding of legal and / or financial aspects). You may, for example, contribute to the assessment of business plans, cash flow models, valuations and monthly financial performance against budget to determine and monitor the operational health of businesses. Equally, you may be involved in legal research and analysis, to support the team to reach views and make recommendations as part of our monitoring.

In due course, you can expect to take on more responsibility on projects and begin to assume core roles in project workstreams. As you progress you will lead project workstreams and drive forward project deliverables. Your drafting responsibilities will also increase, extending to the development of report conclusions and recommendations. In addition, you will contribute to more complex financial and / or legal analysis, depending on your skillset. You will develop project management capabilities and have more client contact. You will mentor new and more junior team members, helping them to settle in and flourish.

The level of your responsibilities will be driven by your ability, your on-the-job performance and your motivation. For our part, we will equip you with the tools, guidance and opportunities to develop and succeed.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for bright, motivated individuals who are working towards, or have recently completed, at least an honours degree. Qualifications in legal, business, accountancy, finance and economics-related fields are particularly relevant to our work, although these are not required. Post-graduate study – particularly in those relevant fields – is a plus. What matters most is your eagerness to learn, collaborate and apply your skills effectively.

• acts with integrity and always strive to do the right thing;
• credible and effective communication skills (written and verbal) – able to communicate facts and ideas accurately and concisely;
• high level of attention to detail;
• time management skills, including ability to organise and prioritise workload;
• takes ownership of assigned tasks and adopts a pro-active approach;
• curious to learn new things and naturally inquisitive;
• works well under pressure and has a positive ‘can-do' attitude if faced with challenging situations;
• actively seeks to enhance own expertise and knowledge;
• IT proficiency.

Fluency in another European language is desirable.

Learning and development

Our supportive culture includes coaching, mentorship, and one-on-one guidance to help you grow, belong and make an impact. You will be allocated a buddy before joining who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Forvis Mazars.

You will also receive comprehensive quality training and development to grow in your professional career; this includes development in professional excellence, client excellence, digital excellence, and technical excellence. Our goal is to support you in reaching your full potential and become a standout talent. To understand more read our FAQs.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Forvis Mazars diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values. We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity create better outcomes for our clients. At Forvis Mazars, we promote an environment in which you can grow your skills, belong to a team that values your ideas, and make an impact that matters.

Next steps

Roles will be closed as soon as we find the right people, so to avoid disappointment we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Please note the start date is 1 September 2026. If you are an international applicant and/or require a visa please view our FAQs before applying to be aware of deadlines and important information you need to know before applying.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button. Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.