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Australia
Work in a company that is an industry leader that specializes in all areas of business distress, which helps to deliver the highest quality service.
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Melbourne
Accepts International
Amazing opportunity for an Accounting or Finance student or recent graduate. Part-time availability, 12 week-internship to start ASAP.
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Brisbane
Accepts International
Amazing internship opportunity for an accounting student or recent graduate. 12-week internship; 15 hours per week; immediate start.
Internships
Australia
Call out to accountant's looking to kick start their career with a functional understanding of accounting principles and processes.
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Available locations
- Australia
- New Zealand
The Achiever Program from Chartered Accountants ANZ, is a paid internship program designed for accounting students. It's simply one application for many opportunities!
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Perth
Are you ready to reach your potential? Our Perth Office is seeking standout Vacation Students to join our Assurance & Advisory team in late 2023 or early 2024.
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- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Regional ACT
- Regional New South Wales
- Regional Northern Territory
- Regional Queensland
- Regional South Australia
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- Regional Victoria
- Regional Western Australia
- Sydney
We are excited to announce that the NextGen Team has launched a smart online internship portal called NextGen iQ, offering free accounting and taxation courses for accounting graduates.
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Available locations
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Amazing opportunity for Accounting / Finance students or graduates to improve their skills.
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Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
You want an internship that’s more than a line on a resume. You want an experience, a challenge and a launchpad for lifelong relationships and career growth. You can find that at EY.
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Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Gold Coast
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Premium Graduate is Australia’s leading graduate employability specialist connecting students and graduates to top host companies around Australia. Since 2014 we have successfully transitioned early career seekers from education to the workplace with extraordinary employment outcomes. Our accredited
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Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Accepts International
12-week Accounting Internships now available in many locations. Flexible start dates. Gain practical accounting experience in a real workplace. The internship program is facilitated by CareerDC. We coordinate internships to help students get local work experience with Australian host companies.
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Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Regional ACT
- Regional New South Wales
- Regional Northern Territory
- Regional Queensland
- Regional South Australia
- Regional Tasmania
- Regional Victoria
- Regional Western Australia
- Sydney
Want to learn what its like to run your own business? Join Camille Woods CA, founder and director of Monday Mind Yoga Studio and explore the type of work that is involved in identifying market opportunities for running and growing your own business.
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Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Regional ACT
- Regional New South Wales
- Regional Northern Territory
- Regional Queensland
- Regional South Australia
- Regional Tasmania
- Regional Victoria
- Regional Western Australia
- Sydney
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Administration
- Business and Commerce
- Consulting
- Management
Let Rishabh Tandon CA who is working in music licensing at YouTube California, take you to the journey of getting an insight into the work he does at YouTube and how you can put your university learnings into practice.
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Perth
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Business and Commerce
- Consulting
McGrathNicol is a specialist Advisory and Restructuring firm. Our experts work with corporates, banks, law firms, private companies and government across all industry sectors and business sizes to deliver valuable advice and high-quality outcomes.
Internships
Brisbane
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Business and Commerce
- Consulting
McGrathNicol is a specialist Advisory and Restructuring firm. Our experts work with corporates, banks, law firms, private companies and government across all industry sectors and business sizes to deliver valuable advice and high-quality outcomes.
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Sydney
Accepts International
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Management
We are looking to start an Intern who can assist the Supply Chain Manager in the running of the procurement department, who is hopefully the right fit and will continue to become part of the team.
Internships
Perth
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Consulting
Are you ready to reach your potential? Our Perth Office is seeking standout Vacation Students to join our Taxation Services team in late 2023 or early 2024.
Internships
Sydney
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Business and Commerce
- Consulting
McGrathNicol is a specialist Advisory and Restructuring firm. Our experts work with corporates, banks, law firms, private companies and government across all industry sectors and business sizes to deliver valuable advice and high-quality outcomes.
Internships
Canberra
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Business and Commerce
- Consulting
McGrathNicol is a specialist Advisory and Restructuring firm. Our experts work with corporates, banks, law firms, private companies and government across all industry sectors and business sizes to deliver valuable advice and high-quality outcomes.
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Perth
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Consulting
Are you ready to reach your potential? Our Perth Office is seeking standout Vacation Students to join our R&D Tax and Government Incentives team in late 2023 or early 2024.
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Accounting Internship and Vacation Program Guide
For accounting students, securing an internship or a summer vacation program is an extremely important step in their career. Not only do employers look for evidence of practical experience when recruiting graduates (of which an internship or vacation work is a perfect example), these opportunities provide students with an insight into what it is like working in the professional world.
Vacation Programs
Vacation programs are more structured and challenging than average internships. They are run by large companies, as part of their HR strategy to attract the best young minds to work for them after graduation. Vacation programs are offered to students in their penultimate year, and typically run for 12 weeks, during the summer period between late November and March.
Companies go to great effort and cost to make vacation programs attractive to students. Vacation work will include plenty of hands-on experience and teamwork, contributing to real projects. Interns are given the chance to show leadership and demonstrate responsibility. They are usually partnered with “buddies” (graduates) and are mentored by experienced staff members. Sometimes the vacation program will involve travel. In addition, vacationers are paid well (around $12 230 for 12 weeks work), and will be invited to participate in many social events like drinks nights and parties, where they will have the chance to make connections among staff.
Most hotly contested in the accounting industry are the prestigiousvacation programs with the Big Four financial services firms (PwC, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG). These programs, which are vital recruitment tools for the Big Four, are the source of the majority of their full time graduate employees. Depending on the quality of each year’s interns, up to 98% of Big Four interns will receive offers of full time employment. Other large accounting firms that offer vacation programs include Pitcher Partners, KordaMentha, HK Group, William Buck and H&R Block, among others.
For more information on the differences between internships and vacation programs, and for tips on how to successfully apply to these programs, check out our general internships and vacation programs guide.
More information about graduate programs in accounting can be found here.
