Grant Thornton

Shape your future.
Ignite your potential.

At Grant Thornton, we’re committed to shaping better futures - starting with yours.

Our Vacation Program is designed for students who want real insight into professional life and a meaningful start to their career. Over 4 to 6 weeks, you will gain hands‑on experience working with teams across accounting, tax and advisory, supporting a wide range of complex and dynamic clients. It is an opportunity to see how your studies translate into real work and what life as a graduate at Grant Thornton could look like.

From day one, you will be supported through meaningful work, genuine mentorship and a culture that values what makes you different. You will gain exposure to real client challenges, develop practical skills and build confidence in a professional environment.

This is more than an internship. It is a chance to explore your potential, build capability and take the first step towards a career that feels truly remarkable.

What we offer you:

• A full-time, paid opportunity to gain work experience over your university break
• Exposure to real client work and projects with a social/community impact
• A plethora social and networking opportunities
• Receive mentoring and regular on-the-job feedback from your assigned buddy and coaching manager
• A structured learning program to support the development of your technical skills and commercial acumen

Best of all, a successful vacationer experience could also fast-track you to a graduate offer!

Your opportunity

Explore a career in Finance Advisory by joining one of our core client teams:

• Restructuring Advisory
• Corporate Finance
• Forensic Consulting

Restructuring Advisory

Some organisations are so well established, it seems like they could never go out of business. But a failure to innovate, poor internal controls, a change in customer demands or external market conditions can rapidly cause a business to enter into financial distress or fail completely.

Formulating and executing a business restructure or turnaround strategy can be challenging for management. Our Restructuring Advisory team works closely with business owners, managers and lenders to identify and resolve issues affecting profitability, protect enterprise value and recover value.

Joining the Restructuring Advisory team as a graduate will see you:

• preparing financial analysis or forecasting work papers
• attending a client’s worksite
• conducting investigations including review accounting records and supporting documentation
• drafting reports for clients and/or regulatory bodies
• liaising with banks, the ATO and key creditors
• preparing for and attending creditor meetings.

Corporate Finance

Our Corporate Finance team works with clients through all stages of a transaction or investment, ensuring key decision makers have the right information to make informed decisions and maximise value.

Joining our Corporate Finance team as a graduate could see you work across all aspects of corporate finance, including:

• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Due diligence
• Valuations
• Financial modelling.

Forensic Consulting

Complex legal proceedings, financial disputes and investigations are increasingly common and can prove a distraction to businesses and their leaders in driving strategy and achieving outcomes. They can also place considerable financial and reputational risk on businesses.

Our Forensic Consulting team works with our clients across all aspects of forensic consulting, including commercial litigation support, investigations and fraud and asset tracing.

Joining the Forensic Consulting team as a graduate will see you:

• preparing accounting work papers
• undertaking client, industry and sector research projects
• reading and synthesising relevant case law and legislation
• getting involved in business development activities, networking and professional development seminars
• working on independent reviews on behalf of the Fair Work Commission or Fair Work Ombudsman.

Eligibility

To be eligible for our 2026/2027 Finance Advisory Vacation Program, you must be:

• in your penultimate or final year of your undergraduate or postgraduate studies; and
• an Australian or New Zealand Citizen, a Permanent Resident of Australia or a visa-holder (subject to some conditions).

International students and graduates

We welcome applications from international students who are studying at an Australian tertiary institution.  To be eligible to apply, you will need to demonstrate that you have full time working rights within Australia at the time of your application.  We recommend you review our international student and graduate eligibility information prior to starting your application.

Please note: Grant Thornton Australia will not sponsor students or graduates for the purposes of residency. Successful candidates will be required, as a condition of their employment, to maintain a current visa or where relevant, to independently apply for and obtain permanent residency.

Your application

Five easy steps to starting your career at Grant Thornton:

• Get to know us
• Apply online
• Complete our online testing – the Grant Thornton Strength Assessment
• Complete the video interview
• Attend an assessment centre and/or interview

Need additional support?

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible for anyone who wishes to apply, and we warmly welcome applications from students who have a disability or identify as neurodiverse.  Should you require any adaptations to the recruitment process or need any additional support from us to help you perform at your best, please reach out to our Early Careers team at earlycareers@au.gt.com to discuss your application and your individual circumstances.