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3.8
  • > 100,000 employees

Outsourced Finance (PwC Private - Optimise) (Jan 2024)

Location details

On-site

  • Australia

    Australia

    • New South Wales

      Sydney

Remote

Sydney

  • Australia

    Australia

    Remote work

Location

Sydney, Sydney

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeInternship, Clerkship or Placement
  • SalaryAUD 45,000 - 53,000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies1-10 vacancies
  • Application open dateApply by 22 Aug 2023
  • Start dateStart date 25 Jan 2024

About Us

In Optimise, you'll use your accounting, finance and relationship management skills. You'll be driving the finance function for our clients that don't have a finance team in Australia or require support with specific elements of their finance function. You will work with a very broad range of  clients including foreign investors who acquire passive assets (e.g. real estate, interest in mining joint ventures or infrastructure assets) or might set up a trading business here, inbound multinational entities, private businesses, franchise groups and not for profit entities. 

You'll be a part of a team that ensures the finance function progresses seamlessly within an organisation. This can mean looking after all their day-to-day bookkeeping, payroll, GST compliance, income tax compliance, helping to manage cash transactions and bank accounts, and assisting with budgeting and forecasting. We align ourselves with the business's priorities to deliver an outstanding client experience. We bring the best of PwC to our clients.

What is the Trainee Program?

As a Trainee, you'll embark on a three-year journey of combined work and study with PwC. You'll join us as a full-time employee while you study part-time for two (2) years. You will take a break from full-time work to complete your degree in the third year! 

Balance is important. That's why you'll receive one (1) day of paid study while you work four days a week! This means you’ll receive a full-time salary while you study! As a trainee, you’ll combine your university studies with work experience to build the perfect foundation for your career, all while receiving professional and financial support in a full-time paid role.

About the Opportunity​

In the PwC Private Optimise team, you’ll find yourself in a culture that values wellbeing and working together. Alongside your peers, you’ll solve problems like owning the end to end finance solutions for our clients or providing financial advice to assist our clients make important business decisions. You'll use your skills in accounting, finance, and relationship management to make an impact across various industries. And along the way, you’ll build relationships and skills to set you up for a lifetime of success. 

What will a normal day look like? Well you can count on that every day you will: 

  • Work collaboratively with peers and team to help manage client relationships and contribute to the growth of the team
  • Help manage transactions for our clients and assist with budgeting and forecasting;
  • Drive the finance function for our clients that don’t have a finance team in Australia or support a finance team to deliver on priorities

As a trainee in PwC Private Optimise, the top three skills you’ll need to hit the ground running are: 

  • Studying Finance, Business, Commerce or Accounting
  • A passion and desire to help build and create a technology focused Financial Management service offering to help businesses 
  • Problem solving skills 

Anticipated start date is 26 January, 2024.

Your New Benefits

  • Flexible daily working hours for a work-life balance that suits you
  • Work overseas or interstate for that precious time with your family and friends
  • Paid study (and leave!), we’ll pay all the costs and give you time off to study
  • No dress code so you can feel comfortable and dress for your day
  • Yearly bonuses to reward great performance!
  • Health & fitness perks like a wellness stipend and discounted memberships
  • More family time with 26 weeks paid parental leave policy for mums, dads and foster carers

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

To solve important problems we need diverse talent. We empower our people to use their creativity, authenticity and human differences to be the champions of change. We know that when people from diverse backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value - for our clients, our people and our society. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you.  

What’s next? 

If you're looking for a team that values your work and solves meaningful problems, apply now!

We believe the best work is human-led and tech-powered. If you’re keen to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.  

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

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Australia
Australian CitizenAustralian Permanent Resident

Qualifications & other requirements

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Working rights
    Australian Citizen
  • Study fields
    Business & Management
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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Melbourne
6 months ago

Varies from project to project. On my current project this involves creating business and technical requirements, hosting standups, communicating progress to the client, managing the sprint cadence (creating the meetings on outlook), liaising with the QA on test estimates , providing testing assistance when needed and explaining the business requirements to the developers to get the solution design created.

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Graduate
Perth
6 months ago

Assisting in conducting internal audits and compliance reviews.

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Graduate
Melbourne
6 months ago

Mainly involved in investment research and operations for providing clients with investment advice.

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About the employer

PwC Global Logo

PwC Australia

Rating

3.8

Number of employees

> 100,000 employees

Industries

Accounting & Advisory

PwC takes a human-led, tech-powered approach, combining diverse perspectives, expertise and relationships with tech to solve important problems.

Pros and cons of working at PwC Australia

Pros

  • The people here are all genuine and open... I enjoy working in a high-performing environment where I feel that my skills are developing every day.

  • The support and growth opportunities from the team of individuals with different experiences.

  • From the day I started, I felt incredibly welcomed and supportive. No matter how high up in the company someone was they still would give me the time to help me with any questions I had. My team made work fun and enjoyable.

  • The office itself is great, especially the access to the cafe where free warm drinks are available before 12. The company has a flexible 'dress for your day' dress code, so people can often come in relaxing clothing, although many still prefer business wear

  • Our managers are highly accessible and make excellent mentors.

Cons

    • The working hours can be quite demanding

    • I think everyone, not just PwC, would like to be paid more for what they do and when compared with other graduate roles we are paid to a similar standard.

    • Time in grade is the main driver for promotion.

    • The pressure at times to meet deadlines that may not necessarily be that realistic and the billable hour demands.

    • There should be more formal training programs for technical skills here.