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  • > 100,000 employees

Audit, Assurance and Finance Graduate Program - Rolling Intake (Feb 2025)

Location details

On-site

  • Australia

    Australia

    • Australian Capital Territory

      Canberra

    • New South Wales

      Newcastle • Sydney • Wollongong

    • Northern Territory

      Darwin

    • Queensland

      Brisbane • Gold Coast • Townsville

    • South Australia

      Adelaide

    • Tasmania

      Hobart

    • Victoria

      Geelong • Melbourne

    • Western Australia

      Perth

Location

Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • SalaryAUD 60,000 - 82,000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies1-700 vacancies
  • Application open dateApply by 7 Oct 2024
  • Start dateStart date 9 Feb 2025

Applications for the 2025 Graduate Program are still being accepted but will be added to our candidate pool for additional places – our main intake applications closed on 8th March. 

Our candidate pool will be reviewed as additional places in our Graduate Program come up, so please apply to still be in with a chance to start something big with us!

Why choose Audit, Assurance and Finance as a grad?

Money makes the world go around, but how can we make sure it goes around ethically, sustainably, and efficiently? That’s where you come in. Maintain the world’s confidence in capital markets and drive innovation. Just accounting and finance? It’s trust in numbers, clear in the complex and new ways in solid systems. That’s creating a better world and an exciting career.

Choose your pathway

Everyone’s career is different, and we support unique growth and pathways. With a range of disciplines and specialties, you can start in one place and go almost anywhere as you build your career here.

Apply to this Audit, Assurance, and Finance pathway and you’ll have the option to select the stream of work you’re interested in. Not sure or open to something new? No preference means we’ll match you where your degree and interests fit. 

Location of this job: nominate your KPMG office location during the application process.

What is being a consultant?

You’ll be part of a team of experienced and early-career professionals who work on solving problems. The client (they could be an international company, a local charity, or a small business) brings us a challenge and we create a team and a plan to help solve it. That team will be made up of colleagues from several disciplines and backgrounds so we bring the best ideas to the table – there might be forensic accountants working alongside an environmental specialist and change and communications professionals. 

The work itself is varied depending on your team and the client, so expect to build knowledge of several industries and businesses. You might be researching and gathering information, critically assessing financial statements to understand if the information is correct, liaising with clients to understand decisions or challenges they face, working with your team to develop an audit opinion, or implement new compliance software.

Explore the types of work you could do in more detail.

About the graduate program

  • For students in their final year of study in 2024 or who recently graduated and are not yet in professional work
  • A one-year growth pathway with targeted coaching, support, and development as you grow your new career
  • Real work from the start so you can make an impact and learn straightaway
  • Start work in February 2025 (typically, some teams have a slightly different schedule) with a full-time and ongoing graduate role.

What grads say

Whether it’s a client or other people around the office, I enjoy getting to know other people from all walks of life. (Tim, 2023 grad)

It’s a safe environment to learn, grow, and even try and fail under some great mentors in my team. We all look out for each other when there are difficult and new tasks. (Cici, 2021 grad)

Learning about the workings of the world and having the tools and skills to develop viable solutions for all sorts of problems is why I love my job. (Kanwal, 2023 grad)

It's nice to be able to finish a job and sit back and be proud of the work we accomplished as a team. (Jessica, 2023 grad)

I already get to work directly with company CFOs and management to help with accounting practices. (Andrew, 2023 grad)

Big things on offer

  • Coaching and feedback as standard: your own performance development manager and your broader team will help you build your skills with coaching and continuous feedback.
  • Focus on your interpersonal skills: you got the degree, now learn how to use it in a corporate career by applying your knowledge to real-world problems and people.
  • True commitment to wellbeing, diversity, and community: we regularly track our progress on 21 public commitments we’ve made on governance, people, planet, and prosperity in our Impact Plan, such as our gender pay gap, indigenous inclusion, mental health, learning and more
  • Employee discounts: at 100s of stores (like JB HiFi, Woolworths, Airbnb, and more) with our SmartSpend app
  • Build your network, friendships, and interests: clubs for a variety of interests from running to books, cooking, badminton, card games and so much more.

About KPMG

In short, we’re the Australian arm of a global network of professional firms providing a full range of services to organisations across a wide range of industries, government, and not-for-profit sectors. We have deep expertise in audit and assurance, tax, and advisory. Read more about us on our page.

Ready to apply?

Get started now with the five-minute application form - you only need to complete one application form. If you’re interested in multiple areas, you can select them in your one application.

If you’re eligible, you’ll receive our online testing information and be placed in our candidate pool for additional places to open in the 2024/25 Graduate Program. 

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

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Australian CitizenAustralian Permanent ResidentInternational Student/Graduate Visa

Qualifications & other requirements

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Working rights
    Australian Citizen
  • Study fields
    Business & Management
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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Graduate
Sydney
5 months ago

Preparing tax compliance documents, assist in analysis for tax compliance and advisory, taking care of admin tasks and internal risks

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Graduate
Sydney
5 months ago

Ask my manager for work and they provide me with work.

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Graduate
Sydney
5 months ago

I support project delivery, sorting through documents, collating findings and help draft reports.

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About the employer

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KPMG Australia

Rating

3.7

Number of employees

> 100,000 employees

Industries

Accounting & Advisory

KPMG is a leading professional services firm offering graduate and vacationer opportunities across Australia.

Pros and cons of working at KPMG Australia

Pros

  • Lots of other grads so plenty of social opportunities with people your age.

  • The flexibility of work-from-home vs in-office is terrific.

  • The team I have joined have been very welcoming, and the expectations are very reasonable.

  • Good on-the-job learning and exposure to a variety of clients.

  • The experience provided and the reputation of the firm's talent in the external market.

Cons

    • There is an underlying trend of long work days from all levels of the firm.

    • You are dependent on the market swings; you can go a few weeks or months without meaningful work or be extremely busy.

    • Promotion appears to be locked in to tenure, i.e. one year, two years, not based on performance or knowledge.

    • Virtual Graduate Program learning is unengaging.

    • You are dependent on the market swings; you can go a few weeks or months without meaningful work or be extremely busy.