ANAO

Ask questions, follow your curiosity and shape public sector accountability as you complete a graduate program that will help you grow, excel and lead.

As a financial auditor grad at the ANAO, you’ll do meaningful and rewarding work across a wide and unique public sector client base of over 250+ government agencies. Analyse financial information to help keep public sector expenditure transparent as you build your understanding of what good public sector accounting looks like.

You don’t need an accounting degree to work in our financial statements team — though accountants are certainly welcome! Our graduate program training will help you build your foundational accounting skills — all you need to bring is a willingness to learn and a flexible, adaptive mindset.

Your days might involve:

• researching and meeting with agencies to gain an understanding of their operations
• verifying financial statement line items via strategic sampling and testing
• meeting with your audit team to plan and evaluate audit strategy and discuss contemporary accounting issues
• liaising with agencies to source evidence, and sorting through documentation to find evidence and prepare strong financial analysis
• working with your team to identify areas in which agencies could improve
• assisting with drafting formal reports, including management letters and reports to the Parliament.

The ANAO is an agile organisation that values mobility — so if you join the office as a financial auditor, you’ll still have opportunities to develop more generalist skills and work in different teams, throughout your grad year and beyond.

Are you a flexible numbers whiz who wants to work in a place where profit isn’t a driver? Do you care about transparent spending of public money? Are you keen to gain a broad experience in public sector auditing? Then the ANAO is the place for you!

What you’ll get out of your graduate program

• generous conditions, including a starting salary of $75,797 per annum plus 15.4% super
• engaging, interesting and varied work that supports accountability and integrity in government
• extensive learning and development opportunities to support career goals
• flexible working arrangements and a positive culture of work-life balance
• opportunity to work closely with and learn from senior leaders
• promotion to a higher classification at the completion of the program.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, you must:

• have completed your university degree within the last seven years or be in your final year of study
• be an Australian citizen
• be willing to undergo a security clearance process
• relocate to Canberra (we can provide support in moving to Canberra).