2027 Australian National Audit Office graduate program Ask questions, follow your curiosity and shape public sector accountability as you complete a graduate program that will help you grow, excel and lead. As an ANAO grad, you'll shape public sector accountability as you dive into work that empowers you to ask bold questions and drive real change in the public sector. Audits are like research projects - so if you like to uncover evidence and analyse information to draw conclusions, then the ANAO is the place for you to kickstart your career. ANAO grads are offered: generous conditions, including a starting salary of $75,797 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 your career goals flexible working arrangements and a positive culture of work-life balance work closely with and learn from senior leaders promotion to a higher classification at the completion of the program. You'll join the ANAO 2027 graduate program as a financial auditor graduate, or as an IT systems auditor graduate. The key duties of the position include As a financial auditor grad, 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. As an IT systems auditor grad, your days might involve: collaboratively planning different approaches to assess risks and test systems engaging with internal and external stakeholders liaising with audited agencies to understand their processes, conduct walkthroughs and gather evidence assessing governance structures and IT controls in different IT systems, like separation of duties, password security and permissions collating evidence to justify your analysis completing work papers and documentation to capture results from testing. The ANAO is an agile organisation that values mobility - so if you join the office as a financial auditor or an IT systems auditor, you'll still have opportunities to develop more generalist skills and work in different teams, throughout your grad year and beyond.
