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Accounting & Audit sits at the centre of trust in business and public institutions. You help organisations understand performance, manage risk, and meet regulatory expectations, while strengthening transparency and confidence in financial reporting. Work spans audit, assurance, accounting advisory, governance, and emerging areas like sustainability and digital assurance. It is a strong foundation for deep expertise and long-term career mobility across Deloitte.

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Our specialist accounting skills empower clients with a deep understanding of their financial position. We don’t just understand our clients’ businesses; we explore major 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.

We recruit into the following streams:

  • Financial Services (FS)

We support the financial services industry, including banking, wealth management, superannuation, and insurance. Our teams are based in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra.

  • Global & Private Markets (G&P)

We serve iconic large and complex Australian and international organisations from diverse industries, working with talented Deloitte audit teams worldwide.

Our team also looks after private organisations, private equity firms, non-profits, and purpose-driven organisations across retail, healthcare, sport, transport, and fast-growing technology industries. Our teams are based in Sydney, Western Sydney, and Melbourne.  

  • Large and Complex

Serving iconic ASX-listed clients from various industries, including retail, energy, telecommunications, construction, mining and resources, technology, and healthcare. Our teams are based in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. 


Degrees
Accounting and must be eligible for the CAANZ program.


Learn more about: AUDIT & ASSURANCE

We uncover significant opportunities and identify risks that extend 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.
  • Utilise the latest technology tools to develop innovative solutions and assist in preparing project plans and reports.


We recruit into the following streams:

Sustainability & Emerging Assurance (SEA)

  • Sustainability & Climate

Our highly diverse and multidisciplinary team combines deep subject matter expertise, strategic thinking, data, and technology to meet the equally diverse and rapidly evolving needs of our clients. Our experience and expertise span Sustainability and ESG Strategy, Impact Measurement, Climate Risk, and Reporting across a range of local and global standards and frameworks, supporting complex and diverse reporting and advisory client engagements.

Degrees:   Environmental Science, Climate & Sustainability, Environmental Engineering, Biodiversity and/or Accounting, Finance. 

  • Treasury & Risk

We are a specialist risk advisory and assurance practice providing services across credit risk, market risk, corporate treasury, and insurance risk. We advise and support Australia’s largest publicly listed companies, global corporations, and private businesses through integrated advisory and audit channels. 

Our capability spans all aspects of treasury and financial risk management, including credit provisioning, capital modelling, model validation, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB), market risk, actuarial valuations, accounting and valuation of derivatives, hedging strategies, treasury technology, global cash management, outsourced accounting, regulatory advice and governance and controls.  

Degrees: Actuarial Science, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering.

  • Financial Services Regulatory (FS Reg CoE) 

We provide assurance and advisory services to Australia’s top financial institutions including Wealth Management, Financial  Planning, Superannuation and Insurance sectors.  As a Centre of Excellence, we support our clients in crafting and developing solutions for complex regulatory issues and meeting regulatory requirements.  Demand for our regulatory specialist and audit services is growing more than ever as the world recognises our talent.

Degrees: Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Law.


Controls Assurance (CIA)

  • Controls - Business Risk

Working across a broad range of clients and industries, including some of Australia’s largest and most complex organisations, our teams deploy their risk, internal controls, and culture expertise to strengthen our clients' control frameworks through pragmatic, risk-based solutions.  Our services include controls transformation, internal audit, risk culture, third-party assurance, and risk management solutions.    

Degrees:  Commerce, Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Management, Law, STEM, Psychology.
 

Accounting & Reporting Advisory (ARA)

In ARA,  we are focussed on supporting finance departments across all industries by leveraging deep expertise in accounting, finance, and audit. We tailor our approach to each client and geography, with a focus on three core areas: enhancing finance team efficiency through process optimisation and technology implementation; providing critical guidance during complex events such as mergers, acquisitions, restructures, and implementation of new accounting standards; and delivering value-driven insights to meet financial, statutory, management, and regulatory reporting requirements.  

We are trusted advisors to some of the largest Australian and global companies, key Federal and State government bodies, and not-for-profit entities. 

Degrees: Accounting.

Learn more about: AUDIT & ASSURANCE

Organisations face ever-increasing and complex regulations and threats to reputation and business continuity. Rapid advancement in technology and AI provides a real opportunity to drive greater efficiency and value. 

Our clients look to us to help them be resilient, trusted and efficient. We do this with world-class regulatory, risk management and forensic experience fused with the technology and data expertise to detect, prevent and respond to threats.   

What will you get to do? 

  • Forensic & Financial Crime

    We support clients exposed to risks from financial crime, fraud and other economic crimes, as well as claims and disputes. We use our deep industry experience, advanced analytical technology and global network to understand challenges and manage complex issues for our clients. We work hand in hand with clients to pre-empt risk and manage related programs. 

    Degrees:  Commerce/Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Law, Criminology, Science. 

    Learn more about: STRATEGY, RISK & TRANSACTIONS

In our Turnaround & Restructuring business you’ll assist on diverse and engaging assignments across restructuring, performance improvement and formal insolvency. We also support organisations with securing the necessary capital to meet their needs. 

What will you get to do? 

You’ll advise on impactful client engagements, focusing on helping clients to analyse and understand the performance and position of their business, developing restructuring and insolvency strategies and supporting our clients through successful implementation.

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


Learn more about: STRATEGY, RISK & TRANSACTIONS


Be part of a team that provides top-quality, practical taxation advice that’s tailored to our client’s unique circumstances - working with a variety of top-tier clients, ranging from multinational corporations to high net-worth individuals.

We recruit into the following streams:

Business Tax

Deloitte’s Business Tax (BT) team is a trusted advisor to some of the Australia’s largest and most complex businesses. Beyond just preparing tax returns, BT offers strategic advice to help clients navigate tax across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory environments.  

The team focuses on both operational tax support and high-stakes transactions, solving problems that utilise the skills of law, finance/commerce and accounting.  

BT is structured into four main service lines: ASX/MNC (Corporate & International Tax), Transfer Pricing (TP), Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Tax and Financial Services Institutions (FSI) Tax. 

What will you get to do?

  • ASX/MNC (Corporate & International Tax) – Help large companies follow tax rules and plan ahead. 
  • Transfer Pricing – Make sure international branches of the same company charge each other fairly. 
  • M&A Tax – Advise on the tax side of major business deals. 
  • FSI Tax – Support financial institutions like banks and super funds with complex tax matters. 

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


Private Tax & Advisory

We advise many of Australia’s most successful privately owned enterprises, high net-worth individuals and families, and not-for-profits. You’ll get to work across a broad variety of advisory engagements providing assistance with restructures, transactions, intergenerational family planning and compliance engagements including preparation of financial statements and tax returns.

What will you get to do?

  • Be part of the best client service teams attending to our client’s compliance and advisory requirements, including preparing financial statements, income tax returns and working files to support  
  • Collaborate with other specialist teams within the private market 
  • Assist on advisory engagements and accounting solutions 

Degrees:  Private Advisory - Accounting Business, Commerce.  Private Tax - Accounting, Business, Commerce, Law (combined with Acconting, Commerce or Business).


Global Employer Services

Through a global network of experts, we help global employers navigate the tax, technology, immigration, and mobility aspects. We also 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 Australian employee tax, employment tax and immigration implications of internationally mobile workers. 
  • Australian payroll advisory and payroll compliance services for domestic and cross border employees. 
  • 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).


Indirect Tax

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.


Research & Development (Gi³)

We're not your typical tax function. We're a diverse team of engineers, accountants, scientists, lawyers, and IP strategists. Our job is to help clients access incentives and grants. This includes identifying and communicating industry-scale R&D projects on behalf of our clients to the two entities that administer R&D tax incentives—the ATO and the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR).

What will you get to do?

  • Combine analytical and technical writing skills to identify R&D projects and draft a range of written documentation and financial deliverables.
  • Liaise with government bodies regarding grants and incentives opportunities for clients.
  • Collaborate with a variety of clients in diverse industries and attend client meetings with managing directors, CFOs, tax managers, heads of R&D, chief scientists, chief technology officers and other key decision-makers.

Degrees: Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Finance, Environmental Management, Biotechnology, Mathematics, and more.


Learn more about: TAX & LEGAL

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