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

Our Risk Consulting team partners closely with clients on their risk management processes and strategies – ensuring they are paying their people correctly, securing their cyber resilience, helping them to spot early issues in your governance procedures and ready to tackle crime targeting their industry sector.

Opportunities are open for vacationers and students to explore a career within our broader with the following areas:

• Internal Audit
• Technology Risk
• Financial Crime/AML

Joining the Risk Consulting team as a vacationer will see you:

• attending client meetings and workshops
• undertaking the engagement fieldwork – walking through a client’s processes controls, setting up work papers, testing a client’s controls
• summarising findings and writing reports
• developing client presentations.

Our Risk Consulting team accepts applications from students of all disciplines but is particularly well suited to students majoring in Accounting, Commerce, Finance, Economics, Law, Data Analytics or Business Information Systems.

Eligibility

To be eligible for our 2026/2027 Risk Consulting 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.