Investment & Financial Accounting Graduate (Feb 2025)

More excellence, less vanilla

The RBA’s two-year rotational graduate program is a well-recognised and outstanding professional opportunity for emerging talent. We are offering an opportunity for a graduate accountant within the RBA’s Financial Reporting team. The successful candidate would have a great attitude, strong analytical skills, and an interest in learning more about accounting and tax policy (including investment accounting).

Your background

• Recently completed a degree in finance, accounting, business or a closely related discipline
• Demonstrated skills in critical thinking
• An interest in the RBA’s policy functions, a curious mindset to understand how Finance captures and analyses these activities, and a customer-focused attitude
• A team player who is willing to contribute their ideas within the team and across Finance more broadly

Your team

Your graduate program experience will be within Finance, which is responsible for statutory reporting and providing support services to the Bank across several different areas. You will have one year working within the reporting and taxation team, and one year with the investment accounting team. Both of these teams sit within the Financial Reporting part of Finance. Your role will include collaborating with different areas in the Bank, including internal stakeholders within Finance, the dealing room, Risk Management, Settlements, Human Resources and the RBA’s offshore offices.

Finance offers a supportive environment with coaching and training. This enables you to immediately apply your skills to make a difference, while learning from a talented team in a unique institution. You will be able to fast-tracking your professional skills development and will have opportunities to extend yourself.

Be More

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operates infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people have a critical role to play in achieving these objectives. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts.

We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the Bank forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is an equal-opportunity employer.  We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from experienced candidates seeking workplace flexibility.