2020 Graduate Opportunities - R&D Tax or Employment Tax

Current opportunities – R&D Tax and Employment Taxes

We are currently looking for driven and ambitious graduate candidates with little (up to 18 months) or no experience to join our Melbourne Research and Development (R&D) Tax and Remuneration Taxes teams as New Associates commencing in March 2020.

Research and Development (R&D) Tax

Research and development is critical to growing and maintaining a successful business. Innovation can be an expensive pursuit. Our specialist R&D team help our clients to make the most of their R&D investments through identifying eligible R&D activities, as well as supporting companies through reviews with the regulators.

Employment Taxes

In today's ever-changing and competitive corporate landscape, attracting and retaining top talent is a challenge for most organisations. Our Global Mobility Services and Remuneration Taxes team provides specialist tax advisory services with particular focus on employment taxes – Including FBT, payroll tax, superannuation, Employee Share Schemes, remuneration and salary sacrifice arrangements – to ensure our clients are able to reward their top performers in a sustainable and tax-efficient manner.

The future is now

At Grant Thornton, we offer more than just your 'traditional' graduate program; instead, we kick start your career as an Associate and support you to turn theory into practice – moving from knowing to growing. We'll equip you with the tools and skills you need to develop unique insights and tailor innovative strategies. We'll give you the support you need to obtain your CA and other professional qualifications. And more importantly, we'll encourage you to be yourself

The world's leading organisations look to Grant Thornton to deliver the right advice at the right time. Every day, they come to us for independent accounting, tax and advisory services. We help dynamic organisations unlock their potential for growth by delivering timely and actionable insights. With 50,000 people in more than 135 countries, we understand that talented people drive all of our successes.

Get busy with real work

We'll support you to successfully transition from university student to practising professional. From day one, you will be given hands-on experience on a variety of projects – investigating issues, undertaking analysis and delivering real recommendations whilst working alongside awesome peers who will help you succeed.

Our graduates receive significant training, development and leadership opportunities, and our CA pass rates are consistently above average. Leveraging our strong local and international network, graduates can work towards rewarding opportunities in Australia and overseas.

We are committed to offering a distinctive people experience. This means that all team members have the opportunity to explore working arrangements that support them to meet both their professional and personal commitments. Making for a happier, healthier life, this approach also enables you to feel and perform your best at work. Being flexible benefits our firm, our clients, and our people!

What we're looking for

Aside from having or studying towards relevant qualifications, we're looking for people who value the things we value.

• We empower our people to make a difference. We want our people to think for themselves, to speak up, and to actively shape our firm's culture and future.
• We genuinely care about our clients. As part of our work, we discover what's important to them and enjoy helping them succeed.
• We want our people to bring their whole selves to work. Individuality and authenticity are very important to our firm.
• We highly value collaboration. We believe that it's energising and stimulating to collaborate – to learn from and be inspired by others. - We believe that diverse teams will always outperform the individual.
• We're looking for well-rounded candidates who connect with our brand, values and culture and want to make a difference right from the start.

Eligibility

• To be eligible for a Grant Thornton graduate opportunity, you must:
• have completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the last 2 years; 
• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or an Australian permanent resident; and
• be able to commence in March 2020.

If this is you, kick start your career and apply today!

Apply now

Applications close at 11.55 pm Sunday, 9 February 2020. Positions are limited so apply quickly to avoid disappointment.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to progress through the recruitment process, we encourage you to please contact Kate Minns, Graduate Recruitment Senior Consultant at 03 8663 6436 or at GTTalentScouts@au.gt.com to discuss your application and your individual needs.