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Deloitte offers diverse opportunities in accounting. With accounting skills at Deloitte, you could work on audit, tax, and financial advisory projects, providing insights, ensuring compliance, and supporting client decision-making processes. Join us if you're passionate about numbers and making a meaningful impact.

We have limited opportunities for accounting students to join our teams, learn more!

Step 1. Discover your career pathway



Learn more about the specific Deloitte teams we're hiring into and the work you can expect in a role with us to find a career pathway that fits your skills, interests and future ambitions.

Our specialist accounting skills empower clients with a deep understanding of their financial position. We don’t just understand our clients’ businesses; we explore significant opportunities and identify risks beyond traditional financial reporting functions. Our team of auditors and accountants is growing more than ever as the world recognises our talent.

What will you get to do?

  • Provide audit, advisory, financial reporting, and accounting services to public, private, and not-for-profit clients. 
  • Apply design-thinking approaches to audit projects.
  • Perform substantive audit testing using data analytics to develop and present annual audit plans and reports.

DegreesAccounting


We recruit into the following streams:

  • Financial Services

We support the financial services industry, including banks, non-bank lenders, superannuation funds, insurance companies, fin techs, and asset managers. 

  • Global & Private

Our Global and Private Audit team provides comprehensive audit and assurance services to international clients, including multinationals, large private companies, and high-net-worth individuals in Australia.

  • Listed

We serve iconic ASX-listed clients from various industries, including retail, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare.


Learn more about: AUDIT & ASSURANCE

We uncover significant opportunities and identify risks beyond traditional financial reporting.

What will you get to do? 

  • Gain enviable client-facing skills as you craft and deliver innovative solutions for our clients’ most complex problems.
  • Build your understanding of our client's industries and their typical challenges.
  • Use the latest tech tools to develop creative solutions and help prepare project plans and reports.


We recruit into the following streams:

  • Accounting & Reporting Assurance

We assist clients in ensuring the integrity of their financial information by providing core and complex accounting and financial reporting assurance services and leveraging technology to streamline and automate financial reporting processes.

DegreesAccounting (Major or Minor)
 

  • Controls Assurance

Our Controls and third-party assurance specialist team applies core assurance and accounting techniques to assist our clients in assessing and enhancing their internal controls and operational performance. We focus on specialist control reviews and assurance reporting, mainly over financial services organisations, including control reviews over third-party service providers. Our portfolio of clients includes some of the most prominent business names in Australia and globally. 

Degrees: Business, Management, Finance, Accounting or Business Law

  • Sustainability and Emerging Assurance

We deliver sustainability and ESG assurance services, regulatory, treasury, and other emerging assurance services beyond core accounting, reporting, and controls assurance, including AI and algorithm assurance. 

DegreesAccounting (Major or Minor)

 

Did you know Deloitte has a Forensic practice helping clients deal with real and ever-present threats such as program integrity, governance, fraud, corruption, and money laundering?

Our Forensic teams are fast-growing groups of trusted advisors who help clients manage their growing regulatory and customer demands for fraud mitigation.

Forensic Solutions

Our Forensic Solutions team is 100+ people strong and is comprised of practitioners from all sorts of fields, ranging from law enforcement and accounting to forensic technology, business intelligence, and financial crime. This a great example of a diverse team working collaboratively together toward a common goal!  

What will you get to do?

  • Strategic Advisory: Advising clients on their strategic and operational posture for preventing, detecting and responding to integrity issues, poor governance, serious non-compliance, fraud and corruption, both within Australia and the Pacific region.
  • Investigations: Gather evidence by interrogating large data holdings, conducting financial analysis, interviewing witnesses, and undertaking background searches. You will work with colleagues from our forensic analytics and technology disciplines to crack the case! 
  • Disputes: Review and prepare information to help assess the significance of a specific claim or undertake complex financial analysis in support of expert witness proceedings in court.
  • Financial Crime Advisory: Working in a team advising clients on anti-money laundering, sanctions, bribery, corruption and fraud. You could assist high-profile clients in dealing with the issues flowing on from the Financial Services Royal Commission.
  • Forensic Accounting: Analyse and report on the financial aspects of complex accounting matters and assess the quantum of loss or damage for investigations and disputes.

Degrees: Accounting, Business, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Law.


Learn more about: FINANCIAL ADVISORY

We know that Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) are a huge deal for businesses, so we make sure they succeed from start to finish. Through constant collaboration and professional development, we turn clients’ frustration into assurance with our sophisticated and tailored M&A advice.

What will you get to do?

Get world-class on-the-job training from our global network for M&A professionals and specialise in one of the below teams**:

  1. Advisory: We support our clients by advising them on M&A transactions, including buying and selling businesses and assets, from the moment they begin to consider a transaction to the day that the deal is completed and ownership changes.
  2. Transaction Services*: We make sellers’ lives easier by providing due diligence information, analytics on key financial/operating performance metrics, transaction-related tax and accounting advice, and reviewing sale and purchase agreements.
  3. Valuations: We help clients understand the worth of entities, assets and liabilities to make informed business and investment decisions by quantifying and articulating value for the transaction, financial reporting, taxation, financing, litigation and strategic management purposes.
  4. Intellectual Property Advisory: Our IP Advisory team specialises in quantifying and optimising the value of tech, data and brands – covering fields as diverse as agri-tech, biotech, cleantech, fintech and mining tech. We help clients commercialise intellectual property (IP), raise funds, leverage IP in M&A, develop IP strategies and meet intangible asset reporting requirements.
  5. Fixed Asset Valuations: At M&A Fixed Asset Valuations, we help clients with asset-intensive businesses value their plant and infrastructure for financial reporting, stamp duty, tax and strategic management purposes.
  6. Consulting Services: We help clients navigate deals and support them in strategy, commercial, operational advice, due diligence and implementation across mergers and divestments with a focus on increasing growth and value.
  7. People M&A: We help clients navigate the people-related aspects of deals, which sit at the heart of deal value. We focus across the M&A lifecycle in areas including HR due diligence, change and communications, organisational design, workforce transition and culture integration.
  8. Business Modelling: The business modelling team provides clients insightful business planning and forecasting analysis. Using quantitative analysis and sound judgment, we build financial and economic modelling solutions to help our clients make strategic decisions and enhance stakeholder value.
  9. Data Analytics (iDeal): Every M&A decision is driven, at least in part, by data. In the past, you might not know the real story behind the numbers until your business was in the trenches of post-deal transition. iDeal enables you to go deep into the data to find out what’s really going on within the tight time frame of most deals —before it’s too late.

Degrees: Open to all degrees


*By joining M&A Transaction Services, you will have opportunities to develop your skills through professional studies, such as support with completing your Chartered Accountants (CA) Program.

**Different locations hire into different teams. You can see which teams are available in each location on the individual M&A job ads when applying.

Learn more about: FINANCIAL ADVISORY

We flourish in the unexpected, specialising in offering restructuring advice to companies facing corporate distress or disruption. Never settling for “good enough”, we craft creative, tailored solutions for underperforming businesses. We’re responsible for conducting lending reviews, formal insolvency, debt and capital restructures, as well as turnaround services to a variety of businesses.

What will you get to do?

  • Contribute to a range of solutions for underperforming businesses such as voluntary administrations, receiverships, liquidations, corporate simplifications, and debt restructuring.
  • Help clients navigate through formal and informal restructures and insolvency processes to protect and maximise their positions.
  • Receive support in undertaking the Chartered Accountants (CA) program*.

Degrees: Accounting, Business, Commerce, Finance, Law.

*By joining Turnaround & Restructuring, you will have opportunities to develop your skills through professional studies, such as support with completing your Chartered Accountants (CA) Program.
 


Learn more about: FINANCIAL ADVISORY

With deep expertise in tax, our team gives top-quality, practical advice tailored to our client’s unique circumstances.

What will you get to do?

  • Provide trusted advice to help clients simplify their tax management and oversight.
  • Deliver a comprehensive and practical approach to tax planning that helps corporate, international, and privately owned businesses meet their worldwide tax and statutory responsibilities.
  • Identify planning opportunities and provide specialised services to achieve tax efficiencies.

Degrees: Accounting, Business, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Law


Learn more about: TAX & LEGAL

We help global employers navigate the tax, technology, immigration, and mobility aspects through a global network of experts. We help them transform global programs cost-efficiently and use data analytics, digital insights and other technologies to offer our clients tailored solutions.

What will you get to do?

  • Engage in client interactions addressing the personal and company tax and immigration implications associated with internationally mobile workers
  • Assist clients in responding to regulator-initiated audits and reviews relating to matters such as underpayment of wages, primary tax obligations, compliance with immigration requirements and reporting of equity-based incentives
  • Work with global teams to solve complex problems for large multinational employers
  • Migration team: Law degree and Practical Legal Training (or, at a minimum, the coursework component) OR Graduate Diploma in Australian Migration Law and Practice and the associated Migration Agents Capstone Assessment.

Degrees: Accounting, Business, Commerce, HR, Economics, Finance, Law (Migration)



Learn more about: TAX & LEGAL

We're specialists in a broad range of increasingly important indirect taxes, including GST, State Taxes, Global Trade and Advisory, Fuel Tax and Luxury Car Tax. We’re at the forefront of indirect tax policy, framing national conversations, and regularly and successfully leading litigation.

What will you get to do?

  • Work with a diverse team of accountants and lawyers to solve complex tax issues as a result of mergers and acquisitions, business reorganisations and evolving indirect tax legislative change within Australia and globally
  • Assist clients in managing tax authority and government regulator audits and reviews
  • Work with several Deloitte teams to develop tailored solutions to assist clients with tax transformation, including outsourcing and adopting technology to streamline compliance.

Degrees: Accounting, Business, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Law


Learn more about: TAX & LEGAL

We advise some of Australia’s most successful privately-owned companies, high net-worth individuals and not-for-profits. You’ll see the full gamut, from preparing financial statements and tax returns to compliance and advisory.

What will you get to do?

  • Be part of the best client service teams, attending to our clients' compliance and advisory requirements, including preparing financial statements, income tax returns, and working files to support such.
  • Collaborate with other specialist teams within the private market.
  • Research general and complex taxation matters, including liaising with clients and statutory bodies.

Degrees: Accounting


Learn more about: TAX & LEGAL

We work with multinational enterprises to help them understand and apply global transfer pricing rules to their business. This involves providing our clients with insights and expertise on various international-related party transactions and arrangements and helping them defend their arrangements in interactions with tax authorities.

What will you get to do?

  • Be part of a global transfer pricing network and team with Deloitte transfer pricing practices in various other countries in delivering advice to multinational clients.
  • Combine legal, financial, and economic skills to analyse and apply transfer pricing rules to various intra-group arrangements and transactions.
  • Work with clients from various industries and business types, meeting with key personnel from across the business to understand how the business operates and drives value.

Degrees: Accounting, Business, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Law


Learn more about: TAX & LEGAL

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Graduate Program

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Vacation Program

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International Students

We accept applications from international students across a variety of roles. Please visit our International Students page for more details.

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