William Buck
Restructuring & Insolvency Graduate Accountant (Feb 2025)
Melbourne
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 65000 / Year
- inclusive of superannuation
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 31 Dec 2024
- Start date 23 Feb 2025
Ambitious for a career that brings both growth and opportunity? Buckle Up!
Careers start with care. As a William Buck Graduate, we will nurture and grow your skills and confidence with focused Learning and Development programs, and a fun and collaborative team culture. You will be valued for what you bring, encouraged to discover your interests, shape your own career path, and be excited for your future.
At William Buck, we’re big enough to challenge the Big 4 on the complexity of work, but small enough that you’ll get to work one-on-one with your Directors – they’ll know your name, celebrate your birthday, and take a keen interest in helping you achieve your ambitions and career goals.
Additional benefits that our graduates enjoy are our employee reward and discount program, two days of CSR leave, lunchtime netball and futsal, monthly massage day, breakfast club, and regular social events.
What does a Graduate position at William Buck look like?
- A permanent position within the division you are offered.
- A comprehensive L&D program consisting of both structured training sessions and on-the-job training, supported from day 1 by your dedicated buddy.
- Exposure across a diverse range of clients and industries
- Regular social events, volunteering, and networking opportunities.
- Connecting with peers from across Australia & NZ at “Grad College”.
Progression beyond your Graduate year.
- After 12 months you will be promoted to an Intermediate Accountant.
- You will be supported through the Chartered Accountants (CA) Program both financially and through technical training sessions, mentorship, study resources, peer workgroups, and up to 3 days study leave per module.
We are seeking an Accounting Graduate to join our Restructuring & Insolvency division, commencing in February 2025.
Our Restructuring & Insolvency team bring their expertise to assist in times of financial distress and achieve the best outcome for all stakeholders. Although insolvency or bankruptcy may be inevitable in some situations, many businesses are able to trade out of hardship and prosper. As an R&I Specialist, you will consider our clients specific operational and strategic issues and draw on advice from other divisions to provide solutions.
What do you need to be successful?
- The mindset to treat each day as a learning opportunity.
- A passion for client services and relationship building.
- A willingness to have a go and give it your best.
- You will be a final year undergraduate student, or recent graduate, with a major in Accounting (or a major in a related field and a keen interest in pursuing a career in Restructuring & Insolvency).
What happens next?
- Apply: Fill out the online application, attaching your resume and academic transcript.
- Video Interview with an HR representative & Online Assessment.
- Face-to-face Interview: You will be invited to interview with a Director and Manager.
- Offer: You become part of the William Buck team!
Care for a career with a company that cares? Apply now!
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Learning and development, requiring admin work for live training, promotion work in sharing upcoming and current projects, project work in planning, consultation and implementation, and being available to support others and answer ad-hoc queries.
Preparation of tax summary's, income tax returns, rental property summaries client add forms phone calls to ato preparation of bas and lodgment
At this stage just a lot of training aswell as basic jobs for individuals mostly
About the employer
William Buck
4.4
500 - 1,000 employees
Accounting & Advisory
More than just accountants and advisors, William Buck aspires to create a positive change in the lives of their clients and their people.
Pros and cons of working at William Buck
Pros
The best thing about working at William Buck is the other people you work with. Everybody in the office greets you with a smile and genuinely wants to get to know you.
The workplace culture of William Buck has been extremely positive in my short time with the firm. Everyone is positive, upbeat, and happy to help or engage where appropriate.
"I believe that in terms of learning, William Buck is hard to match, and I am very satisfied with what I have been taught and trained.
My managers are very accessible, friendly and great at teaching. As dictated by the nature our work processes, we engage heavily with our managers, enabling more opportunities for learning and development as well as general bonding. Feedback is generally constructive with the ultimate aim of teaching instead of reprimanding.
here is a clear progression map from when you start... merit is rewarded and that the effort employees put into their work do not go unrecognized or unnoticed.
Cons
Hours can be long and sometimes it’s hard to disconnect, but that is more of an industry thing rather than specific to WB.
The only real problem I have encountered so far is tech issues.
Being a grad means no flexibility to work from home until after the probation period.
After-hours work is limited only to the busy season (though recently I have stayed back more than usual to get projects out to clients).
There does sometimes feel as though there is a lack of processes and frameworks in place, but it also gives room for initiative and freedom.