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The Fordham Graduate Program is an essential component in building talent, helping you develop your skills and deliver exceptional outcomes in an environment of high performance and integrity.
We’re proud of the fact that many of our graduates go on to have long careers at Fordham and work their way up to Partner. Our people are what makes our business a success, so we are committed to providing a flexible working environment that cultivates high performance and offers you support every step of the way.
Fordham is one of the fastest-growing chartered accounting firms in Australia. We help our clients with specialist accounting advice and as a specialist part of Perpetual, we offer the opportunity to work in a business advisory firm with the backing of a trusted diversified financial services company.
As a Fordham Graduate Accountant, you will be exposed to a variety of work and be involved in our clients' business journey, from start to finish. Fordham will also support you through the Chartered Accountants Program with training, workshops and study leave, plus rewarding you on completion of the program with a $5,000 salary increase.
Most chartered accounting firms steer their people into specialist teams where they are stuck all their working lives. Not at Fordham. From Day 1, you’ll be working closely with our senior advisors on real projects for our clients. Throughout our structured graduate program you’ll develop the broad skill set you’ll need to advise our clients on every facet of their businesses.
Why choose Fordham?
We work with the leaders of some of Australia’s largest and most dynamic private businesses, established wealthy, NFP’s and large corporate trusts. They need advisors who have the expertise and all-round knowledge to match theirs.
That’s why we make sure our graduates have a solid understanding of business, taxation and accounting fundamentals. Add to this, CA support and qualifications, great career building, soft skills training and a team structure that provides mentoring and coaching and you can see why our graduates become Australia’s leading advisors.
We’re are serious about supporting the growth of our staff. We offer flexible work arrangements to enable success, understanding that flexibility means different things to different people.
We’re are serious about supporting the growth of our staff. We offer flexible work arrangements to enable success, understanding that flexibility means different things to different people.
Eligibility criteria
Interested in finding out more?
To be eligible, you will need to:
- Be an Australian or New Zealand Citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident at the time of submitting your application
- Have completed your undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the last three years of the program start date
- Be willing to relocate to the location of the role you are applying to
- Have a credit or above GPA
Be eligible or become eligible to undertake your CA if applying to the Fordham Accounting Business.
Hear from our people
Learn more about the Perpetual Graduate Program.
We have been recognised by The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for being an employer who is committed to promoting gender equality in Australian workplaces.
An in depth look at our Graduate Program from inside Fordham.
We discuss the Workplace Gender Equality award.
Why work at Fordham?
CA Program Support
We will support you through the Chartered Accountants Program with training, workshops and study leave. Then, when you complete the program, we give you a $5,000 salary increase.
Fordham benefits
We work hard to recruit the best people and then even harder to keep them. Read more about the range of benefits we offer including above market superannuation contribution, four weeks of annual leave plus two weeks of wellbeing and community leave, performance bonuses and discounts on investment and wealth products.
Life at Fordham
We believe that mentoring is a two-way relationship and both mentor and mentee can learn a lot from each other. Our mentoring program matches junior staff with more senior employees, giving them a chance to discuss personal or professional issues with someone outside their direct reporting line.
Training and Development
Your training won’t stop when you finish your graduate program, it’s a life-long journey. Read more about our Centres of Excellence, Mentoring, Buddy Program and Technical Training.
Part of Perpetual
Fordham is a specialist part of Perpetual, an investment, advice and trustee company with a 125-year heritage of growing and protecting the wealth of its clients. This gives Fordham graduates a much greater range of possible career paths than at a traditional accounting firm.
An employer of choice for gender equality
Fordham and Perpetual has been recognised by The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for being an employer who is committed to promoting gender equality in Australian workplaces.
