• More Time Off for What Matters: Enjoy up to 6 weeks of leave.
• Flexible Work Environment: Work where you work best.
• An opportunity to work in a business that supports your growth through all stages of your career.

Why Join Us?

The answer is simple!

At Fordham you will be trained and developed to become pre-eminent business advisors and brilliant leaders.

This means that you will be exposed to more than just accounting skills. Think data analytics, AI tools to enhance business solutions, collaborating with clients and colleagues for innovative solutions, learning leadership skills, and learning how to apply and communicate our advisory services. These services that you will be trained in are perfectly summarised on our ‘Wealth Journey’ model. We don’t restrict you to one specialty, we expose you to all our advisory services so that you can be a true business advisor to your clients.

Its Fordham’s operating model that provides you with challenge, exposure to great leadership, diversity, flexibility and a broader career path than you will experience at the average accounting firm.

The above isn’t just words, at Fordham we live by our purpose, which is, “To enable potential through empowering growth to impact our people and clients’.

So, make the right decision for your careers success and choose Fordham!

About the role

Our four week Vacationer Program offers hands-on experience in the accounting field. During your four weeks, you will experience real client work, impactful case studies, and a collaborative team project. You’ll be guided and supported by our team and leaders, all while developing essential technical and soft skills through our learning and development program designed specifically for the Vacationer cohort.

Build your network, forge valuable connections with your peers, and grow both personally and professionally through a variety of events and activities. At the end of the program, if you are successful, you will be offered a graduate position with Fordham.

This is an opportunity to experience what life is like at Fordham with the potential to kick start your accounting career with us.

To be eligible for the Fordham Vacationer Program:

• Be an Australian or New Zealand Citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident at the time of submitting your application.
• Be in your penultimate year of study.
• Be willing to relocate to the location of the role you are applying to.
• Have a credit or above GPA.
• Be eligible or become eligible to undertake your CA if applying to the Fordham Accounting Business, prior to graduating you’re your studies.

How We Work

Fordham is a specialist part of Perpetual. At Perpetual, our unique culture is underpinned by our three organisational behaviours, Stretch, Own it, and Make an impact which drive our approach of day-to-day interactions with colleagues and clients; the way we approach decision-making to the questions we ask and the problems we solve.

Diversity and inclusion

• Strong commitment to all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion.
• A growing number of employee-led networks who work to raise awareness and drive continued change.
• We support over 50 First Nations Communities, helping to secure the communities future. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTIQ+, to apply. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.