William Buck
Graduate Program - Research & Development (Start ASAP)
Melbourne
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 65000 / Year
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 31 Mar 2025
- Start date ASAP
Want to work for a top Accounting Graduate Employer? Buckle Up!
As a William Buck Graduate, we will nurture and grow your skills and confidence with focused Learning and Development programs, and a fun and collaborative team culture.
You will be valued for what you bring, encouraged to discover your interests, shape your own career path, and be excited for your future.
At William Buck, we’re big enough to challenge the Big 4 on the complexity of work, but small enough that you’ll get to work one-on-one with your Partners – they’ll know your name, celebrate your birthday, and take a keen interest in helping you achieve your ambitions and career goals.
What does a Graduate position at William Buck look like?
- A permanent position within the division you are offered.
- A comprehensive induction consisting of both structured training sessions and on-the-job training, supported by a dedicated buddy.
- Exposure across a diverse range of clients and industries
- Regular social events for example our EOFY Party, Tennis Day, and Christmas Party. It’s not all about work!
- Opportunity for volunteering, and networking opportunities.
- Taking part in “Grad College” with William Buck Graduates from around Australia and NZ.
The care continues beyond your Graduate year.
- We do everything possible to ensure you’re supported through the Chartered Accountants (CA) Program both financially and through technical training sessions, mentorship, study resources, peer workgroups, and up to 3 days of study leave per module.
- We have a defined progression framework to ensure year-on-year professional and personal growth.
We’re looking for Graduates with an interest in Research Development Grants & Incentives.
We are currently seeking Graduates to join our R&D team in March/ April 2025.
Our R&D team assists clients with accessing tax offsets and government grants to fund new developments and innovation. Most of our work centres around understanding a client’s R&D activities and communicating this in a scientific way to ensure clients are compliant with tax legislation and receive the best outcome possible. We work closely with William Buck’s other divisions to capitalise on the firm’s comprehensive service offerings and expertise in tax and accounting.
Being part of the R&D team means being at the cutting edge of innovation in Australia across a breadth of industries such as technology, manufacturing, and life sciences. No two clients are the same and we take pride in our work being able to help advance Australian knowledge on a global scale.
What do you need to be successful?
- A passion for client services and relationship building.
- A willingness to have a go and give it your best.
- You will be a final-year undergraduate student, or recent graduate, with a major in Accounting and or Science.
What happens next?
- Apply: Fill out the online application, attaching your resume and transcript.
- Video Interview & Online Assessment without Early Careers Advisor Evelyn.
- Face-to-face Interview: You will be invited to interview with a Partner and Manager.
- Offer: You become part of the William Buck team!
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. Face-to-face interviews will commence from February.
At any stage of the process, if you have any questions, please reach out to:
Evelyn Hatzimihalis, Early Careers Advisor
Email: evelyn.hatzimihalis@williambuck.com
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Learning and development, requiring admin work for live training, promotion work in sharing upcoming and current projects, project work in planning, consultation and implementation, and being available to support others and answer ad-hoc queries.
Preparation of tax summary's, income tax returns, rental property summaries client add forms phone calls to ato preparation of bas and lodgment
At this stage just a lot of training aswell as basic jobs for individuals mostly
About the employer
William Buck
4.4
500 - 1,000 employees
Accounting & Advisory
More than just accountants and advisors, William Buck aspires to create a positive change in the lives of their clients and their people.
Pros and cons of working at William Buck
Pros
The best thing about working at William Buck is the other people you work with. Everybody in the office greets you with a smile and genuinely wants to get to know you.
The workplace culture of William Buck has been extremely positive in my short time with the firm. Everyone is positive, upbeat, and happy to help or engage where appropriate.
"I believe that in terms of learning, William Buck is hard to match, and I am very satisfied with what I have been taught and trained.
My managers are very accessible, friendly and great at teaching. As dictated by the nature our work processes, we engage heavily with our managers, enabling more opportunities for learning and development as well as general bonding. Feedback is generally constructive with the ultimate aim of teaching instead of reprimanding.
here is a clear progression map from when you start... merit is rewarded and that the effort employees put into their work do not go unrecognized or unnoticed.
Cons
Hours can be long and sometimes it’s hard to disconnect, but that is more of an industry thing rather than specific to WB.
The only real problem I have encountered so far is tech issues.
Being a grad means no flexibility to work from home until after the probation period.
After-hours work is limited only to the busy season (though recently I have stayed back more than usual to get projects out to clients).
There does sometimes feel as though there is a lack of processes and frameworks in place, but it also gives room for initiative and freedom.