Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Australia
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Queensland
- Sydney
Join our New i-Tax Work-experience Program to experience and learn individual taxation.
Internships
Available locations
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Join the Australia’s best kept accounting secret and experience what it's like to be part of a team that leads the way and creates opportunities! SW's Summer Vacation Program is an opportunity to gain valuable work experience in a 6-week paid internship.
Internships
Sydney
Join our NextGen team to gain work experience of daily life as an Assistant Accountant! Your time to get trained by CAs and CPAs to handle Accounts receivable/payable, Payroll, BAS, GST, Financial statement etc.
Internships
Sydney
Get a chance to join our team to experience Graduate Accountant's job in a leading accounting firm! Training by CAs and CPAs who has total over 20 years experience in accounting industry.
Internships
Sydney
Join our Tax Accountant Work-Experience Program to be ready for this coming tax season!
Internships
Sydney
Accepts International
Join our exciting work-experience program to learn all the job responsibilities of bookkeeper.
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Gold Coast
- 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
Accepts International
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.
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Accepts International
Through our Internship program, you will gain practical experience and acquire comprehensive knowledge in a variety of accounting functions. Our focus is to provide you with hands-on training to prepare you for success in the field.
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Australia
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Queenscliff
- Sydney
Join our NextGen team to gain work experience of daily life as an Assistant Accountant! Your time to get trained by CAs and CPAs to handle Accounts receivable/payable, Payroll, BAS, GST, Financial statement etc.
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Australia
- Brisbane
- Darwin
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Queensland
- Sydney
Get a chance to join our team to experience Graduate Accountant's job in a leading accounting firm! Training by CAs and CPAs who has total over 20 years experience in accounting industry.
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Australia
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Queensland
- Sydney
Join our Tax Accountant Work-Experience Program to be ready for this coming tax season!
Internships
Melbourne
Join our NextGen team to gain work experience of daily life as an Assistant Accountant! Your time to get trained by CAs and CPAs to handle Accounts receivable/payable, Payroll, BAS, GST, Financial statement etc.
Internships
Melbourne
Get a chance to join our team to experience Graduate Accountant's job in a leading accounting firm! Training by CAs and CPAs who has total over 20 years experience in accounting industry.
Internships
Melbourne
Join our Tax Accountant Work-Experience Program to be ready for this coming tax season!
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Australia
- Brisbane
- Cannington
- Darwin
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Queensland
- Sydney
- Tasmania
Join our exciting work-experience program to learn all the job responsibilities of bookkeeper.
Generalist Jobs
Generalist jobs accept a wide range of disciplines including Accounting
Internships
Available locations
- Auckland
- Christchurch
- Wellington
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Banking and Finance
- Business and Commerce
The micro-internship is a three-week unpaid programme (around 10 hours of work per week), designed to accelerate your professional growth.
Internships
Available locations
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Accepts International
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Banking and Finance
- Business and Commerce
Excellent opportunity for an Accounting/Finance student or graduate to get exposed to a growing team's many accounting and financial aspects. This company is the rebel between the streets, taking its design cues from Australia's cultural capital and providing the back-lane entrance keys.
Internships
Available locations
- Auckland
- Christchurch
- Wellington
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Banking and Finance
- Business and Commerce
Grant Thornton New Zealand is inviting early expressions of interest for our brand new Flagship 2024/2025 Summer Internship Program.
Internships
Available locations
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Banking and Finance
- Business and Commerce
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. Start your career with an organisation that celebrates and thrives on the differences in our people.
Internships
Available locations
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Hires applicants with degrees in
- Accounting
- Actuarial Studies
- Banking and Finance
- Business and Commerce
- Management
As a forensic vacationer, you need to be able to take complex information and present it in a simple way. This normally involves reviewing and analysing evidence, both factual and financial, and our findings may even be used in Court. No two days will be the same.
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.