We’re one of Australia’s leading professional services firms. What does that mean?
We tackle some of the most significant issues currently challenging Australia. Our work can be as diverse as tackling climate change, creating a culture of gender diversity in STEM or helping to future-proof ASX-listed companies. Our passionate people come together with technology and clients to create impact and make change.
We all want to engage in work that fulfils us with a sense of purpose. We believe that everything we do must be driven by our human spirit – our collective creativity, authenticity and difference. This is why we’ve fostered an environment that encourages your people to be themselves. Working with us means you’ll be aligned with projects you’re interested in and help bring out your strengths for the greater good.
With us, you’ll join a collaborative, innovative and forever evolving community that delivers quality services across Assurance, Advisory and Tax & Legal. With a global network spanning 158 countries, you’ll be surrounded by tech and innovation, and belong to a community that thrives on turning ideas into reality.
We hire people from all degrees, including science, technology, engineering, maths, medicine, arts, business, communications, psychology, and law – just to name a few. The type of work we do is so diverse, but what binds us together is creative problem solving. It’s all about how you approach a problem and how you collaborate with your team members to solve it.
When you join us, you’ll receive on-the-job training, support from a dedicated coach, access to further education like the CA Program, internal development programs, and study and exam leave should you wish to pursue other qualifications. There’s a genuine support structure ensuring everyone feels comfortable to be themselves and perform their best from day one.
We provide you with the flexibility you need to personalise your working lifestyle. Our tech solutions mean that you can work anytime and anywhere. Whether that’s in the office, at home or at a client site, the choice is yours. You also have the choice to dress for your day where you can feel free to wear what you like and what’s most appropriate for the type of work you’re doing that day.
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Our Graduate Program
Being on our Graduate Program means you’ll launch your career by making a difference every day to our people and our clients. With so many challenges to tackle, you’ll use your skills in ways you never expected. From growing trust in food production to building hope in artificial intelligence, here you’ll be provided with the opportunities you need to contribute to a ‘bigger picture’.
Diversity is key to creating meaningful work, which is why we look for people from a range of different degree backgrounds and experiences. We may each be different, but we’re united by our shared passion, drive and readiness to embrace the ever-evolving business landscape together.
If you’re in your final year of study or have completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, our Graduate Program offers you a full-time paid placement with us. Accelerate your career by tackling challenges from some of the largest organisations across Australia.
Did you know that most of our Vacationers receive an offer for a full-time graduate position after completing this program?
If you’re in your second last year of university, in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, our summer Vacation Program offers you first-hand experience at the heart of our business. The program runs for seven weeks and includes full-time work experience during your summer university break, allowing you to get a head-start in your career before graduating.
We understand you might not know exactly what you want to do when you finish your degree, so we encourage you to take the time to understand how you can best align your purpose, skills and passions to one of our many inspiring teams.
Regardless of the business area you choose, we’re sure you’ll find it a worthwhile investment of your time here. Be it the clients, the people, the networks, or the social events – you’ll be surprised at the skills you’ll develop and how much you’ll learn along the way. Opportunity is at the heart of all of our careers, and our Vacation Program offers just that – the opportunity to return to university with your graduate job offer in hand.
Our Trainee Program is a unique opportunity that offers real paid work experience while you’re still figuring out what to do after high school or completing your degree. Why not get ahead of the curve and graduate with both a degree and full-time, relevant work experience? You’ll set yourself up for a successful and fulfilling career by gaining an early insight into what areas of work you’re most passionate about.
If you’re in your final year of high school or have two years of study remaining (second year for a three-year or third year for a four-year degree), our Trainee Program offers you a full-time, two-year placement with us while you study part-time. You’ll then take a break from full-time work to complete your degree.
Putting what you’re learning at uni into practice, you’ll join one of our business areas to work on solving our complex client problems and make an impact on real-world projects. And like many Trainees before you, you may also receive an offer to join us as a full-time Graduate afterwards.
Our Higher Apprenticeship program is an opportunity to earn a competitive salary while studying towards a professional qualification.
The program is open to high school graduates who hold an HSC, VCE, VCAL or equivalent. This is an opportunity to build a foundation of skills in business and technology, gain on-the-job experience and receive coaching from industry professionals over a two-year period.
We’re looking for great communicators and problem solvers. We like people who are curious, motivated, digitally savvy and passionate about technology. Your academic studies, hobbies, part-time work, fundraising or sporting achievements all showcase your talents and the kind of person you are. Think about what you do, how you do it and how it applies to a professional services environment.
Women today are making great strides. They’re ambitious, bold and challenging gendered norms that exist in society. Yet, workplace barriers and the issue of gender inequality continues to hinder women’s ability to grow professionally and personally, and assert their influence in the world.
At PwC, we firmly believe that if women are positively supported throughout their professional journey, they’ll be able to push forward their careers with greater self-confidence, take risks, feel a sense of belonging and have their contributions valued.
By empowering female career advancement we not only create gender equality, we also create more diversified workplace communities. This means we’re better equipped to solve society’s most significant problems because we are able to view them through the most holistic lens.
It’s why the PwC community, both locally and globally, is so committed to supporting all our people and to challenge the stereotypes experienced by people of all genders. We do this by actively addressing the barriers to equality and continuously creating an inclusive culture.
We’re proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality. As the first Australian professional services firm to go public with our partner and employee pay gaps, we’re proud to say that in like-for-like roles our pay gap is 0.2%. In saying this, we recognise there is still a long way to go. We are actively working to reduce our current overall pay gap of 11.1% and know that by being transparent we can stay accountable and help shift the dial faster.
Developing the next generation of female leaders and seeing more women take up leadership positions is important to us. We’ve set some of the most progressive gender targets out there and work hard to ensure our process when it comes to pay and promotion is both fair and unbiased.
We have a number of benefits that help support this such as 18 weeks paid parental leave, superannuation payments on unpaid parental leave, flexible work options, a leading domestic violence ongoing mentoring and coaching programs and inclusive leadership training. To add, anyone can join our national employee-led network (Symmetry@PwC) which runs events and forums both within PwC and beyond to raise awareness more broadly around the benefits of diversity.
We know that when women feel a sense of inclusion and belonging, regardless of whether they are cisgender, transgender or gender diverse, it leads to the best outcomes for everyone. That’s why we’ve created an environment that doesn’t simply embrace women, it helps them to succeed.
People with Disability at PwC
Ensuring people with disabilities thrive.
At PwC Australia, we strive to create a culture of safety to empower people with disability to be open about their needs in order to support them to thrive. Every day, we challenge the unconscious bias that exists in society by focusing on the uniqueness of each individual and the value they bring to work. Because we know, great strides are made not by a single person alone, but by working collaboratively and rallying the right skill sets.
Our focus is on bringing together people who are passionate about solving the tough challenges of society and are excited about shaping the future. Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are at the forefront of driving this change, ensuring that disability is not seen as an impediment but as an asset – opening up new ways of thinking and working.
We’re committed to fostering a culture of openness that empowers people with disabilities to be open about their needs without fear of bias and receive the right support and flexibility to be able to bring their best selves to work. We are driven to close the disability gap and ensure each individual can be seen, heard and respected.
Why PwC?
Mental health support
We’re proactive in addressing mental health with a strategy in place for ongoing workshops, workplace support and a network of mental health firstaid officers. We provide mental health support through our CARE (Coaching, Advice, Resilience and Empowerment) program, which is available to all staff and their immediate families.
In-house clinical services
Our people have access to in-house Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Psychology services through our Health and Wellness team for assessment and case management services.
Workplace adjustment policy
We’ve implemented a centralised process for workplace adjustment requests during both recruitment and employment.
National employee-led Network (Ability@PwC)
We’ve created a network across our firm that connects and supports people with disability, and those who care for someone with a disability to drive positive cultural change.
Disability awareness training
We provide training sessions to key staff groups including Recruiters, Client Service staff, and our Human Resources community, and continue to offer these sessions to our people as needed.
Flexible work
Our ‘All Roles Flex’ policy gives our people the opportunity to work flexibly and in a way that works best for both themselves and their clients.
Learning and development
We work to ensure any training that employees receive is accessible and barrier-free for all abilities.
Dress for your Day
With no dress code in place, we embrace individual differences and trust our people to wear what they feel is appropriate and comfortable for the type of work they do in their day.
Accessible employment
We encourage people with disabilities to apply and gain employment through our mainstream recruitment pathways and have worked to ensure our processes are accessible. We also actively seek to employ people with disability through specialist programs, working with organisations such as Specialisterne Australia, The Australian Network on Disability, the Paralympic Employment Program and Enabled Employment.
LGBTIQ+ at PwC
At PwC Australia, we know that solving the tough problems of the world can only be done together.
To create holistic, meaningful change in society, it is essential to open wide the doors of inclusivity and allow all people to freely contribute.
When people are encouraged to be themselves and experience the richness of diversity in all forms – thought, background, passion, skill-sets, personal choices – inclusivity becomes a powerful force to drive change.
Our initiatives continually challenge the unconscious bias that exists in society, and we are proud to be a leading LGBTIQ+ employer. PwC was one of the first corporates to support marriage equality, and actively supported our people throughout the campaign. At the 2020 Australian LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Awards, we were recognised as a Platinum Employer – making us one of the most LGBTIQ+ inclusive workplaces in Australia. We are proud members of Pride in Diversity and the global group ‘OUT Leadership’.
Things to Know
Transitioning support
We support our people by offering a transitioning and support policy to any person who chooses to transition and affirm their gender while working at the firm.
Employee-led networks
We have a host of national employee-led initiatives to ensure everyone can be supported and lend an active voice in being a part of the collective change. One such community is GLEE@ PwC (Gays, Lesbians and Everyone Else) with like-minded individuals committed to championing diversity to ensure everyone can bring their whole selves to work.
Parental policies
Our policies for parental leave and personal/carers are LGBTIQ+ inclusive and include foster care and adoption.
ATSI at PwC
Creating meaningful change
PwC Australia (PwC) and PwC’s Indigenous Consulting (PIC) acknowledge and pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia, whose ancestral lands and waters we work and live on throughout Australia.
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. In Australia, reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is fundamental to achieving this and is core to Australia’s national identity.
We believe that meaningful change happens when it is created by Indigenous people, not for Indigenous people. That is why in 2013 we launched PwC’s Indigenous Consulting (PIC), the only aboriginal business that is a member firm of the global PwC network, committed to providing meaningful solutions that have a positive impact on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
PIC is the only model of its kind in a professional services firm anywhere in the world that is self-determining, meaning Indigenous majority-owned, managed and staffed. Quite simply, it is a joint venture between one of the oldest cultures in the world and one of the largest professional services firms.
Over the past year, PwC has embarked on a new approach to social impact. To further cement our commitment towards reconciliation, in 2019 the two organisations codeveloped the Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) that sets out an ambitious agenda for the next four years, including a target to employ 100 new First Nations people by 2023 and how, as a firm, we can actively support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Together PwC and PIC have been able to have an extraordinary impact on some of the most challenging issues facing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We’ve touched over 600 communities in the past 5 years, and by raising the bar of its RAP ambitions, we continue to lead national reconciliation action in its sector.
Those who join PwC have the opportunity to become a part of this change. You can express an interest in working with PIC and gain exposure to their client engagement and community projects.
