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Perpetual

4.1
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

2022 Fordham Graduate (Jan 2022)

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • Number of vacancies4-6 vacancies
  • Application open dateApply by 26 Apr 2021
  • Start dateStart date 31 Jan 2022

Fordham is a specialist part of Perpetual Private, focusing on private businesses, established wealthy, NFP's and large corporate trusts. Fordham is one of the fastest-growing chartered accounting firms in Australia, helping our clients with specialist accounting advice which has earnt us the title of a trusted advisor. As Fordham is a specialist part of Perpetual, you will also have access to a widely recognised and well-respected financial services organization to ensure we take the best of Perpetual and Fordham to our clients.

As a Fordham Graduate Accountant, you will be exposed to a variety of work and involved in our client's business journey from start to finish. You will experience our business services environment and help to achieve meaningful results for our clients. Fordham will also support you through the Chartered Accountants Program with training, workshops, and study leave, plus we reward you on completion of the program with a $5,000 salary increase.

To be eligible for the Perpetual Program

  • Be an Australian or New Zealand Citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident at the time of submitting this application
  • Have completed your undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the last three years of the program start date (ie 2019, 2020, 2021 or February 2022)
  • Be available to commence in February 2022
  • Be willing to relocate to the location of the role you are applying to
  • Have a credit or above GPA
  • Be eligible or become eligible to undertake your CA if applying to the Fordham Accounting Business here are minor differences in duration between the program we run at Perpetual and Fordham.

Why should you join Fordham/Perpetual?

Perpetual is one of Australia's leading financial institutions because for over 130 years we have been putting our clients first and offering an environment where diversity of thought is encouraged. Through wars, recessions and financial crises, we have continually evolved to meet the challenges of constant social, technological and economic change. This makes Perpetual a great place to work/ Our culture is underpinned by our three core values: Excellence – delivering exceptional outcomes; Integrity – doing what's right; and Partnership – succeeding together. We will continue to earn the trust of our clients in everything we do by staying true to our core values and financial principles.

Work rights

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

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Qualifications & other requirements

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

Degree or Certificate
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Study fields
    Business & Management
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Reviews

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Graduate
Sydney
6 years ago

Really can vary day to day and on the team

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Graduate
Sydney
6 years ago

Ad hoc and diverse mix bag of tasks but also opportunity to work on projects where a lot of projects, many related to improvement.

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Graduate
Sydney
6 years ago

Delivery of project deliverables and strategic and product initiatives.

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About the employer

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Perpetual

Rating

4.1

Number of employees

1,000 - 50,000 employees

Industries

Banking & Financial Services

Perpetual is a leading diversified financial services company. We are proud of our heritage and excited about where we are taking our firm.

Pros and cons of working at Perpetual

Pros

  • Great people and work culture

  • The company is very flexible. I work from home once a fortnight and they are flexible with if you need to leave early or take a longer lunch hour etc. The people are all really welcoming and helpful as well. The managers I have had are very encouraging and supportive in regards to helping with career development.

  • Flexible work policy means healthy work life balance. Perpetual is "big enough but small enough" such that it is possible to make an impact, business is supportive with educational opportunities. We also have the best themed Christmas party every year.

  • Flexible work policy and respect for healthy work life balance, meaningful projects, lots of invitations to corporate events and other activities, support for additional study given.

  • The work environment is extremely friendly.

Cons

    • Out-dated systems and processes.