Financial Auditor Graduate Stream (Oct 2025)

Ask questions, follow your curiosity and shape public sector accountability as you complete a graduate program that will help you grow, excel and lead. 

Finance, accounting, economics and business students: GROW your financial auditing and analysis skills, EXCEL across a wide and unique public sector client base, LEAD the charge to keep public sector expenditure transparent. 

As a financial auditor grad at the ANAO, you’ll do meaningful and rewarding work across the entire Australian Government sector, as you engage with our unique and diverse audited agency base of 250+ government agencies. 

Your days might involve: 

• researching and meeting with agencies to gain an understanding of their operations 
• verifying financial statement line items via strategic sampling and testing 
• meeting with your audit team to plan and evaluate audit strategy and discuss contemporary accounting issues
• liaising with agencies to source evidence, and sorting through documentation to find evidence and prepare strong financial analysis
• working with your team to identify areas in which agencies could improve
• assisting with drafting formal reports, including management letters and reports to the Parliament. 

Are you a flexible and adaptative numbers whiz who wants to work in a place where profit isn’t a driver? Do you care about transparent spending of public money? Are you keen to gain a broad experience in public sector auditing? Then the ANAO is the place for you!

What you’ll get out of your graduate program

• generous conditions, including a starting salary of $73,305 per annum plus 15.4% super
• engaging, interesting and varied work that supports accountability and integrity in government
• extensive learning and development opportunities to support career goals
• flexible working arrangements and a positive culture of work-life balance
• opportunity to work closely with and learn from senior leaders 
• promotion to a higher classification at the completion of the program. 

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, you must have completed your university degree within the last seven years or be in your final year of study.

You must also be an Australian citizen willing to undergo a security clearance process and relocate to Canberra. We can assist you with this aspect and provide you support in moving to Canberra.