Fordham is one of the fastest-growing chartered accounting firms in Australia, helping our clients with specialist accounting advice which has earnt us the title of a trusted advisor.
Fordham ensures our graduates have a solid understanding of business, taxation and accounting fundamentals. Add to this, CA support and qualifications, great career building, soft and technical skills training and a team structure that provides mentoring and coaching and you can see why current Fordham graduates become some of Australia’s leading advisors.
We’re proud of the fact that many of our graduates go 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 offer you support every step of the way.
Why Join Us?
The answer is simple!
At Fordham you will be trained and developed to become pre-eminent business advisors and brilliant leaders.
This means that you will be exposed to more than just accounting skills. Think data analytics, AI tools to enhance business solutions, collaborating with clients and colleagues for innovative solutions, leadership skills, and learning how to apply and communicate our advisory services. These services that you will be trained in are perfectly summarised on our ‘Wealth Journey’ model. We don’t restrict you to one specialty, we expose you to all our advisory services so that you can be a true business advisor to your clients.
Its Fordham’s operating model that provides you with challenge, exposure to great leadership, diversity, flexibility and a broader career path than you will experience at the average accounting firm.
The above isn’t just words, at Fordham we live by our purpose, which is, “To enable potential through empowering growth to impact our people and clients’.
So, make the right decision for your careers success and choose Fordham!
Application Process
The first stage of the recruitment process will involve completing an online application form.
Hints & Tips: We encourage you to complete this form in one setting and have all of your relevant supporting documentation readily available (i.e. resume, academic transcript, proof of citizenship etc.)
Successful candidates will be invited to complete an online psychometric assessment. These assessments are designed to continuously challenge and stretch you, and although each question is not time limited, your response time is recorded and will contribute to your result.
Hints & Tips: We recommend that you complete this assessment in a quiet environment where you will not be disturbed and answer each question truthfully & honestly as this information will help inform your personalise development journey.
The next stage involves completing a video interview. This will involve answering 3-4 questions designed to help us get to know you better. We encourage you to be yourself and share examples from your experiences to give us an insight into who you are & what motivates you.
Hints & Tips: A helpful tip is to ensure that you are in a quiet environment with a simple background and have no bright lights in the background. We also encourage you to be well-presented during the interview.
Successful candidates will then be invited to attend an Assessment Centre which will include a few activities as well as an interview. We will confirm the specific date and time closer to the date via email.
Hints & Tips: The Assessment Centre is designed to assess your ability to interact and work within a team, so we encourage you to show us your personality and engage with your group members.
We work hard to get the best people to join Fordham and then we work even harder to keep them. As a specialist part of Perpetual, we have access to a benefits package that is aimed at giving our people rewarding, challenging, evolving careers. We’re proud of the fact that many of our partners started as graduates.
We’re passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of our team as we want our people to be able to thrive both at work and home.
Workplace Flexibility
At Fordham we care about you both within the workplace and at home and for that reason flexibility is a big part of who we are. We know flexibility looks different to everyone. Our goal is to empower our people with a measure of control over when, where, and how they work to deliver their best work.
Accountant Graduate at Fordham
Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy) at RMIT University
Accountant Graduate at Fordham
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) (39964) at University of Melbourne