KPMG AU -changed

4.1
  • > 100,000 employees

Want an insider's view in to the world of KPMG? As part of our Vacation Program, you’ll discover first hand what’s it like to join one of the world's leading professional services firms.

Offered to undergraduates in the penultimate year of their degree, this is your chance to discover what it's like to be part of the KPMG team first hand. You can explore the areas best suited to your skills and aspirations. As well as kick-starting your career, you’ll participate in community activities and have plenty of opportunities to network.

Our vacation program is 6 weeks long in Adelaide and 8 weeks in all other locations.

What you bring

Our standards are high but we're interested in more than academic qualifications. We welcome different backgrounds, value all experiences and consider all qualifications. We're looking for talented people, team players and progressive thinkers who can communicate their ideas convincingly. You will:

  • Have a questioning mind and lots of bright ideas
  • Be a critical thinker with strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Demonstrate good teamwork and leadership potential
  • Be adaptable to new technologies and systems
  • Have strong business and commercial acumen
  • Be passionate about delivering high quality work

What we offer you

We provide a collaborative culture that focuses on the wellbeing of our people to drive innovation. Our workplace of the future provides an agile work environment and a career that flexes to your lifestyle, fostering an open and supportive environment that enriches our people and client experience.

We support numerous organisations in the areas of education, social inclusion, health and the environment, working on initiatives that make a genuine difference to our society.

We believe diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and community. We are consistently recognised as an employer of choice for women, and our inclusive culture promotes the development of our people irrespective of gender, ethnicity, generation, flexible work status, family circumstances, sexual orientation or disability.

If you are looking for a career that will take you further, talk to us.

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Qualifications & other requirements

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Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
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Business & Management (english)
  • Actuarial Studies
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  • Marketing & Advertising
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Engineering & Mathematics
  • Civil Engineering & Construction
  • Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mining Engineering
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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Air Traffic Control
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Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
  • Classics
  • Philosophy
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  • Theology & Comparative Religion
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  • Archaeology
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  • Linguistics
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  • Tax Law
Medical & Health Sciences
  • Dentistry & Dental Science
  • Exercise & Sports Science
  • Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Optometry, Ophthalmology & Orthoptics
  • Pharmacy & Pharmacology
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Anaesthesia
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Practice
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Medical Administration
  • Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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  • Ophthalmology
  • Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Pain Medicine
  • Palliative Medicine
  • Pathology
  • Physician
  • Psychiatry
  • Public Health Medicine
  • Radiation Oncology
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  • Sexual Health Medicine
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  • Surgery
  • Aged Care Nursing
  • Community Nursing
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  • Family & Child Health Nursing
  • Mental Health Nursing
  • Midwifery
  • Nursing & Midwifery (all other)
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  • Epidemiology
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  • Human Movement
  • Indigenous Health
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Property & Built Environment
  • Property, Land & Real Estate
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  • Landscape Architecture
  • Building
  • Construction Management
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  • Chemistry
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  • Sciences (all other)
  • Agribusiness
  • Agricultural Science
  • Aquaculture & Fisheries
  • Viticulture
Teaching & Education
  • General Education Studies

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Study fields
    Business & Management (english)
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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About the employer

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KPMG AU -changed

Rating

4.1

Number of employees

> 100,000 employees

Industries

Accounting & Advisory

KPMG is a leading professional services firm offering graduate and vacation opportunities Australia-wide

Pros and cons of working at KPMG AU -changed

Pros

  • Excellent training provided.

  • Great experience working with a wide variety of large corporate clients

  • Regular client contact, lots of autonomy and responsibility, working amongst a talented team, variety of audits means every day is different

  • Variety of work and great team. Always being challenged to jump in the deep end and learn as I go (can go well :P)

  • The training provided is first class, the people you work with are inspirational, the friends you make are lifelong and the clients you work with and experiences you have are exceptional and are of unrivalled quality.

Cons

    • Occasional long hours.

    • Busy season is about to begin and that will mean working greater hours than is normally appropriate.

    • Reward and recognition, few inter-division networking opportunities

    • tedious tasks and sometimes long hours

    • Being expected to do very long hours at occasion.