Articleship is the highest-leverage decision of the CA journey — the firm and the work mix you train on shapes which jobs you walk into on qualifying. A big firm gives you brand and one deep vertical; a strong mid-size firm gives you breadth across audit, GST, income tax and company work.
Articleship is ICAI-regulated practical training under a member, with institute-prescribed minimum stipends that step up by city population and training year (check the current ICAI notification for exact figures — they get revised). Under the New Scheme the training period is two years. Companies also participate through INDUSTRIAL TRAINING: articles in their final training phase can move from a firm to an eligible company for 9–12 months — the single best pipeline a corporate finance team has into future CAs.
This page collects articleship and industrial-training openings by city. Industrial training deserves special attention: spending your final 9–12 months inside a bank, NBFC or fintech finance team converts many trainees straight into pre-placed CA roles.
Skills employers screen for
Put these on the CV as work you have done, not subjects you have studied — quantified lines get shortlisted.
Who is hiring
The broad financial-services layer — broking houses, wealth and advisory firms, payment institutions, registrars, custodians, and diversified financial groups — hires finance credentials continuously and across every function: client-money reconciliation, exchange and depository compliance, regulatory reporting and product accounting.. Regulator context: RBI / SEBI / IRDAI depending on the licence mix.
Co-lending splits every rupee between partners by contract — the accounting and reconciliation of that split, plus FLDG treatment and ECL on fast-cycling books, is CA fresher work with real edge; auditors and lenders both demand CA-grade documentation of it.
Credit + technical/legal appraisal chain, retail branch accounting, borrowing desks tapping NHB refinance / NCDs / bank lines, Ind AS reporting with securitisation overlays, and collections-linked provisioning.
What it pays
Market bands, not guarantees — the exact number depends on employer, sector and your training exposure. Check each listing for its stated range.
Questions candidates ask
How much stipend does articleship pay?+
ICAI prescribes a minimum that rises with city size and training year, but actual stipends range widely — from the institute floor at small practices to ₹10,000–25,000+ per month at large and mid-size firms in metros. Weigh stipend against work exposure; exposure compounds, stipend does not.
What is industrial training and should I do it?+
In the final phase of articleship you can move from your firm to an eligible company — banks, NBFCs, fintechs and large corporates — for 9–12 months. If you want an industry (not practice) career, it is the strongest signal you can put on a fresher CA CV, and it frequently converts into a job offer.
Big firm or mid-size firm for articleship?+
Big 4 / large firms: brand, structured audits of listed companies, usually one vertical. Mid-size firms: direct partner exposure and the full spread — audit, GST, income tax, ROC work. Decide by the career you want at qualification, not by stipend.
How do I apply to these openings?+
Create a free candidate profile once — qualification stage, articleship/training exposure, city preference, CV — then apply in one click. Employers on MyInternships.in see your stage directly, so complete profiles get shortlisted measurably more often.