Applying for a graduate position at William Buck is the first step in a rewarding career.
We have opportunities for enthusiastic graduates looking to begin and build their careers in Auckland and Tauranga as part of a progressive firm of Chartered Accountants and Advisors.
At William Buck, the skills you learn have lasting value and will form the foundations of your career. We assist our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance and foster an environment of teamwork and respect.
Learning and development
The continued success of William Buck depends on our people. Building a sustainable high-performing workforce is a priority and we do this by providing a continuous learning environment which supports, nurtures, and develops our people to realise their full potential.
Business areas for graduates
Corporate Advisory
Using analytical and interpersonal skills, you’ll work with the team on valuations and litigation support, mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of areas including:
- Business and share valuations
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Due diligence reviews
- Reports for litigation matters
- Corporations Act requirements
- Employee share ownership plans
- Capital raisings including debt and private equity placements
Business Advisory
Offering a full range of advisory services to the diverse, rapidly expanding middle-market business sector, you’ll work in a team that helps clients to build successful and sustainable businesses. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of areas including:
- Strategic business advice
- Compliance (financial statement and taxation return preparation)
- Management analysis
- Budgeting and cash flow forecasting
- Restructuring and asset protection
- Business performance management and benchmarking
Audit & Assurance
Assisting private, public and not-for-profit organisations of all sizes, you and your team will help clients manage their business and technology risk, improve business performance and manage their corporate reporting. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of areas including:
- External and Internal Audit
- Financial Reporting
- Risk Management
- Fraud investigation and prevention
- Other Assurance and Special Projects
Tax services
Working in a team that has a vast impact on its clients’ businesses, you’ll assist clients with ongoing tax compliance and material issues arising from various transactions. Specific areas include:
- Tax risk management strategies
- Merger and acquisition transaction structuring
- Tax effective exit strategies
- International tax and transfer pricing
- Risk assessment
- Employee share plans
- Tax planning
Take Control of Your Future
What’s in your future?
Perhaps it’s meeting new people, forming lasting relationships, or being involved in and delivering meaningful work for real clients? If these attributes are important to you, you’ll probably find you have a few similarities with the people who work at William Buck.
We operate in an environment built on teamwork and respect, where the skills you learn have lasting value and form the foundations of your career.
“William Buck has notably guided me through my time as a graduate. I have felt supported throughout the whole experience, with someone always willing to help and dedicate time to my learning. Everyone is wanting to help you succeed as well as being extremely friendly and easy to get along with.”
– Maddie Watson, Auckland office