Perks & Benefits

Grant Thornton is one of the world's leading organisations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms. We help dynamic organisations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, forward looking advice.

Proactive teams, led by approachable partners  - we use our insights, experience and instinct to understand complex issues for privately owned, publicly listed and public sector clients and help them to find solutions.

Reach for remarkable

At Grant Thornton, care is just as important as capability because we believe that the experience is as important as the outcome.

We strive to provide a strikingly different experience – one that’s more personal, proactive, authentic and agile. To achieve that, we focus on investing in and building our relationship with our clients.

With our values at the core, we seek out diverse perspectives and challenge when necessary to deliver positive progress for your business. No matter your industry, business lifecycle stage, market or growth plans, our experienced professionals are dedicated to achieving the best outcome for you and your stakeholders.

A values-led organisation

Together, our purpose and values serve as our driving force and guidepost for all our interactions so that our clients, our wider community and people within our own organisation have a strikingly different experience. 

 
Our purpose and values articulate what is important to us and how to shape a better future.

We care for our people, clients and communities and support them to thrive.

Our values underpin the purpose and are the guiding behaviours and actions to help realise it.

At Grant Thornton, you are at the heart of everything we do.

So, what can you expect? From day one, you will be empowered to build a career that is truly your own. We’ll support you every step of the way with access to top-notch training, remarkable leaders and a culture that will inspire you to reach your potential. We want you to learn more, be inspired to expand your horizons and discover exactly what you’re capable of.

A firm that is as unique as you

Here, we do things differently. We’re not just a leader in Audit & Assurance, Tax, Financial Advisory, Private Advisory and Consulting – we have an approach that’s uniquely Grant Thornton. Our culture inspires and enables you to pursue your goals and reach your potential. We’re passionate about our clients’ success – and we care deeply about our work and each other. We’re committed to our people, our clients, and our community.

And our size and success means we can offer remarkable opportunities as you develop your career. With a global network spanning more than 135 countries, we have the reach to take your where you want to go!

Your career, your way

You’ve studied hard, and now you deserve the best start to your career. We understand that no two careers are the same, that’s why we’re committed to developing and supporting graduates like you who are looking to carve out a career that’s uniquely yours. The possibilities are endless – where you take your career and how fast you get there is up to you.

3 key reasons why you should consider beginning your career at Grant Thornton

A focus on your learning and development

As well as on-the-job learning, you’ll enjoy a program of structured training – starting at orientation to immerse you in our business, vision, purpose and values. Once you’ve joined your team, you’ll continue to be supported by a broad range of blended learning experiences to help you develop your technical and business skills, knowledge and confidence.

Join us as a graduate and we’ll also support you to complete the Chartered Accountant (CA) Program. In addition to covering the costs of your fees and study materials, we’ll also provide you with in-house masterclasses and paid study leave to help you prepare for and sit your exams.

Make a meaningful impact

In addition to your client work, you’ll also have plenty of opportunity to be involved in initiatives and causes that are meaningful to you.

Passionate about diversity? You might like to join our DAWN committee, who work to celebrate our people’s diversity and foster inclusive work environment. Or perhaps PRISM, our LGBTI+ & Allies Network, is where you can offer your support.

Is volunteering close to your heart? Get involved with the Grant Thornton Foundation or our Social Responsibility Committee to support the broader community.

No matter what’s important to you, there’s an opportunity to make an impact at Grant Thornton.

A career that is uniquely yours

One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to career progression, so we’ll give you the guidance and support to help you get to where you want to go.

No two careers are the same. Your future at Grant Thornton might see you progress in your team or experience life in a different city on secondment or with a permanent move. Or you may look to broaden your horizons and spend time in a different country with one of our global member firms. Where you take your career and how fast you get there is up to you.

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, with their own unique skills and talents. This helps us create a strong and dynamic organisation where we foster innovation, curiosity and diversity of thought.

We not only treat everyone fairly, we celebrate the breadth and diversity of experiences and perspectives that people bring to Grant Thornton.

DAWN (Diversity at Work Now)

DAWN - our Diversity at Work Now committee - seeks to build awareness, headline and celebrate diversity and create an inclusive and welcoming work environment across each office. Local committees in each of our Australian offices drive the celebration of diversity for all our people.

Nationally, DAWN leads the organisation and celebration of events such as:

• International Women's Day
• NAIDOC Week
• Mental Health Week
• International Men's Day

Awards, accreditations and memberships:

• Employer of the Year - 2022 Women in Finance Awards
• Finalist in the Recalibrate Gender Equity Awards
• 2022 AWEI Silver Employer Award
• 2022/2023 Family Inclusive Workplace Certified
• 2021/2022 Family Inclusive Workplace Certified
• 2021/2022 Diversity Council of Australia Certified Inclusive Employer • Pride In Diversity Member
• Diversity Council Australia Member
• Asian Leadership Project Member
• Australian Marriage Equality

When to apply: Applications open Monday 27 February

A career without compromise starts here.

At Grant Thornton, we see the world a little differently - not for how things are, but for how they could be. And when it comes to people, we see you differently too - with near limitless potential to unlock and harness.

Every day we seek to reach for remarkable - in the opportunities we unlock, the experience we share and the results we deliver. But unleashing the remarkable in each of us takes CARE, and that connects our passion with the purpose we live by. It's why we go beyond in the way we care for our people, clients and communities, and support them to thrive, always.

A graduate program with a difference

Life's too short for a cookie-cutter career that treats you like another cog in the machine. So from the get-go, we will look to challenge your curiosity and fuel your passions, empowering you to build a one-of-a-kind career path.

More than that, as leaders in accounting, tax and advisory services, we're committed to setting you up for success through our remarkable support network within a globally integrated firm filled with possibilities.

What we offer you:

• Remarkable support - grow your technical knowledge and business acumen through a structured learning and development program; financial and study leave support to help you undertake your CA qualification; a dedicated coaching Manager and Partner to help you thrive in your career journey.
• Remarkable exposure - work alongside leading Partners and specialists across a broad range of industries and experiences, develop strong relationships with your clients, participate in national and international secondment opportunities as they arise.
• Remarkable impact - make a meaningful difference in a way that feels personal to you through a range of social, environmental and sustainability initiatives, committees and networks.
• Remarkable perks - including a 9 day fortnight (currently trialling); flexible working arrangements; a complimentary health club & gym membership; social events and clubs; well-being mental health support; paid volunteering leave.

Fit your fit

We have graduate opportunities available across the following service lines:

• Audit & Assurance
• Private Business Tax & Advisory
• Financial Advisory (including Corporate Finance, Restructuring Advisory and Forensics)
• Tax (including Corporate Tax and Specialist Tax)
• Consulting (including Management Consulting and Risk Consulting)

Please note: service line opportunities offered may vary between office locations.

Eligibility

To be eligible for our 2024 graduate opportunities, you must be:

• On track to complete your studies by mid-2024; or have completed a relevant undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the last two years; and
• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, a Permanent Resident of Australia or a visa-holder (subject to some conditions).

International students and graduates:

We welcome applications from international students who are studying at an Australian tertiary institution. To be eligible to apply, you will need to demonstrate that you have full time working rights within Australia at the time of your application. We recommend you review our international student and graduate eligibility information prior to starting your application.

Please note: Grant Thornton Australia will not sponsor students or graduates for the purposes of residency. Successful candidates will be required, as a condition of their employment, to maintain a current visa or where relevant, to independently apply for and obtain permanent residency.

Need some additional support?

We are committed to ensuring our workforce is representative of our diverse society, including those who identify as having a disability. We want to make sure everyone can experience a recruitment process free from barriers, and ensure it is inclusive and accessible for anyone who wishes to apply.

Our Early Careers team are on hand to support you with any required adaptations to our recruitment process or requests for additional support. We encourage you let us know so that we can support you to perform at your best throughout the duration of the recruitment process.

You can get in contact our Early Careers team at any stage of the recruitment process on 03 8663 6436 or [email protected] 

When to apply: Application open Monday 27 February

A career without compromise starts here.

At Grant Thornton, we see the world a little differently - not for how things are, but for how they could be. And when it comes to people, we see you differently too - with near limitless potential to unlock and harness.

Every day we seek to reach for remarkable - in the opportunities we unlock, the experience we share and the results we deliver. But unleashing the remarkable in each of us takes CARE, and that connects our passion with the purpose we live by. It's why we go beyond in the way we care for our people, clients and communities, and support them to thrive, always.

A Vacation Program with a difference

You deserve a career as unique as you are. At Grant Thornton, we strive to provide you with all the space, exposure, training and opportunities you need to truly pursue a career without compromise.

Taking place over 4-6 weeks, our Vacation Program offers you a unique insight into what it's like to provide accounting and advisory services to a wide-range of complex and dynamic clients, and experience what life might be like as a Graduate with us. Our approach is simple: we provide you with remarkable support, remarkable exposure and the opportunity to make a remarkable impact - allowing you to unlock your potential and explore a career filled with possibilities.

What we offer you:

• A full-time, paid opportunity to gain work experience over your university break
• Exposure to real client work and projects with a social/community impact • A plethora social and networking opportunities
• Receive mentoring and regular on-the-job feedback from your assigned buddy and coaching manager
• A structured learning program to support the development of your technical skills and commercial acumen

Best of all, a successful vacationer experience could also fast-track you to a graduate offer!

Find your fit

We have vacation program opportunities available across the following service lines:

• Audit & Assurance
• Private Business Tax & Advisory
• Financial Advisory (including Corporate Finance, Restructuring Advisory and Forensics)
• Tax (including Corporate Tax and Specialist Tax)
• Consulting (including Management Consulting and Risk Consulting)

Please note: service line opportunities offered may vary between office locations.

Eligibility

To be eligible for our 2023/2024 Vacation Program, you must be:

• In your penultimate or final year of your undergraduate or postgraduate studies; and
• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, a Permanent Resident of Australia or a visa-holder (subject to some conditions).

International students and graduates

We welcome applications from international students who are studying at an Australian tertiary institution To be eligible to apply, you will need to demonstrate that you have full time working rights within Australia at the time of your application. We recommend you review our international student and graduate eligibility information prior to starting your application.

Please note: Grant Thornton Australia will not sponsor students or graduates for the purposes of residency. Successful candidates will be required, as a condition of their employment, to maintain a current visa or where relevant, to independently apply for and obtain permanent residency.

At Grant Thornton, we recognize the benefits of diversity in leadership and decision making. Our Gender equity action plan focuses on attracting, retaining and developing talented women at all levels of their career. We are committed to growing a culture of inclusion by continuing to develop consciously inclusive Leaders who value unique perspectives, challenge gender bias and stereotypes and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive. At present, 52% of Grant Thornton's team members are female.

Career and development

We are inclusive and supportive of team members no matter where they are along their career life journey, team members are provided a coach to support them, offered access to funded professional memberships, funded CA qualifications and educational support.

Investments in leadership capability include our:

• Inclusive Leadership training
• Inspirational Leadership Program
• Accelerated Development Program
• Women in Leadership connection events

Flexible careers

Individual flexible work options, known as Flex Appeal and access to purchase leave or career breaks ensures you have the work life balance you need.

Health and wellbeing

Your health and wellbeing is cared for through some of our key employee benefits such as:

• Free annual gym membership
• Access to Unmind - mental wellbeing app
• ASSURE wellbeing and coaching
• Discounted private health insurance

Leading supporting for parents and caregivers

Parents and caregivers are supported through industry leading paid parental leave (all genders) inclusive of birth, adoption, foster carers and still birth as well as access to Circle In - parent and caregivers support platform.

Grant Thornton was officially certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace on September 28, 2021. Family Friendly Workplaces certification recognises organisations for their proactive efforts to support employees align their work, caring and wellbeing needs, endorsing them as a Family Inclusive Employer against a set of National Work + Family Standards.

The certification process provides feedback and benchmarking on our policies, practices, promotion, leader enablement and measurement across four core family friendly categories of activity - Flexible Work, Parental Leave, Family Care and Family Wellbeing.

Awards, accreditations and memberships:

• Employer of the Year - 2022 Women in Finance Awards
• Finalist in the Recalibrate Gender Equity Awards
• 2022 AWEI Silver Employer Award
• 2021 AWEI Bronze Employer Award
• 2022/2023 Family Inclusive Workplace Certified
• 2021/2022 Family Inclusive Workplace Certified
• 2021/2022 Diversity Council of Australia Certified Inclusive Employer
• Diversity Council Australia Member

Gender Equity Network (GEN)

Gender Equity is important to everyone at Grant Thornton. We are committed to strengthen our focus and ensure all our people are able to achieve their full potential through our gender equity employee network, aptly named GEN.

GEN supports women and gender diverse people by building a strong network of members and allies working together to create awareness and understanding, promote conscious inclusion, advocate for gender equity and strengthen the pipeline of diverse talent for leadership roles.

PRISM is Grant Thornton Australia's employee network group formed in 2018 to strengthen the company's culture of inclusion by supporting and empowering the full spectrum of individuality.

Grant Thornton uses the acronym LGBTI+, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and (+) identifying other gender identities and sexualities not explicitly identified in this acronym, such as Asexual, Gender diverse, Queer or Questioning.

As a national network of LGBTI+ people and allies who passionately and actively advocate for diversity initiatives within the LGBTI+ community, we are raising awareness of issues faced by LGBTI+ people at work and in our communities more broadly. The focus of the network is to promote a respectful, supportive and equitable culture and to work collectively to increase the visibility of LGBTI+ inclusion both in our workplace and within our broader sphere of influence.

What we do to support our people:

• We facilitate the celebration or recognition of LGBTI+ days of significance such as PRIDE, Mardi Gras, IDAHOBIT and Wear it Purple across our national offices.
• We provide and curate ongoing LGBTI+ awareness learning opportunities and resources.
• We provide a central point of LGBTI+ focused resources and supports for our people.
• We're building a community of visible Allies at all levels of the firm.
• We undertake regular engagement, inclusion and pulse surveys to track progress and inform actions.
• We collaborate with other Grant Thornton employee network groups to create a supportive intersectional network for everyone.
• We create a safe space were our LGBTI+ people can seek out or provide support, share lived experience and know that they belong.

LBGTI+ inclusion is important at Grant Thornton, and we have explicitly called out LGBTI+ inclusion in the following policies:

• Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and Guidelines
• Parental Leave Policy
• Leave Policy
• Employee Assistance Program Policy
• Workplace Behaviour Policy
• Family and Domestic Violence (under review)
• Gender affirmation policy (in creation)

Recent achievements we're proud of:

• May 2022: AWEI Silver Employer Award
• Jan 2022: All Grant Thornton Australia offices will have All Gender bathrooms and change rooms available
• Oct 2021: Pronouns in email signatures made available to all Grant Thornton Australia team members
• 2021-2022: Recognised as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia
• 2021: AWEI Bronze Employer Award
• 2020: Removed formal dress code so that team members can dress for their day in an authentic way regardless of their gender identity (including people who identify as trans, gender diverse or non-binary), expression, cultural identity and heritage
• 2019: AWEI Bronze Employer Award and Global Diversity award winner at the Grant Thornton International awards

Our diversity partners

Grant Thornton is proud to be associated with a number of organisations that support diversity in our workplace, including:

• Diversity Council Australia
• Pride in Diversity
• Australian Marriage Equality

Grant Thornton is committed to walking together with First Nations peoples and the broader community in the spirit of reconciliation now and into the future.

In October 2022, we were proud to launch our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) supporting their continued commitment to being an active participant in the reconciliation process.

As part of its commitment to Reconciliation, this Reflect RAP lays the foundation for Grant Thornton to develop a greater understanding throughout the firm of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

To read more about the launch of our RAP and access a copy of our Plan, please click here.

We’re passionate about making a difference in our communities

Through our sustainability and community engagement initiatives, we aim to contribute to society through creating lasting benefits that empower others to thrive.

In addition to our national pro-bono program, offering free or heavily discounted work for charities and social enterprises supporting marginalised and disadvantaged people in our community, we also partner with a number of local and global organisations. Some of our highlights include:

• Our ‘Committed to the Community Program’ (C2CP) which provides employees spend one day per year undertaking volunteer work. The C2CP has seen employees support various charitable and community organisations, including: Shave for a Cure, Movember, CEO Sleep Out, Whitelion Bailout and Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.
• Developing, funding and hosting the Red Dust Games – a mini Olympics for young people from remote Indigenous communities.
• Partnering with Fitted for Work for International Women’s Day in the form of running a corporate clothing drive and makeup for donation to assist them with their outfitting service. Fitted for Work assist women in need to get back into the workforce by providing them with clothing to attend interviews, career and interview coaching sessions and CV writing services.

Grant Thornton Foundation

In October 2014 we launched The Grant Thornton Foundation to build a co-ordinated approach to charitable giving across Australia.

The Grant Thornton Foundation’s vision is to deliver tangible benefit to our community partners and unlock the potential for growth in our community.

We select our National and Local Charity Partners through our commitment and focus on supporting young people at risk of homelessness and mental health issues.

Our people have contributed to these organisations in a number of ways – including through donations, organised fundraising days and events