Leidos Australia
Graduate Accountant (Feb 2025)
Melbourne
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 80,000 - 85,000 / Year
- Flexible work arrangements
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 12 Jan 2025
- Start date 2 Feb 2025
This role will report to the Assistant Financial Controller and support the provision of accurate, timely, and relevant financial information and accounting guidance to support key stakeholders of the organisation.
Under general supervision, the position will be responsible for reconciliations, accruals and other general accounting activities including revenue and less complex tax related accounting across the Leidos Australia group.
Primary responsibilities include cash receipting, month end processes, liaising with the project teams, managing the corporate card accrual process and technical accounting research, while also supporting specific account reconciliations, journal entry preparation and special projects, as needed.
The successful applicant will have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a highly talented team, focusing on process improvement and promoting work/life balance.
Qualifications
This role is ideal for someone who is completing or has recently completed a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in a related discipline:
- Bachelor of Finance
- Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Economics
Along with your education and any practical experience, Leidos values individuals who use their initiative and seek to understand the business and develop relationships based on respect.
Additional Information
Successful candidates must be Australian Citizens at the time of application to be eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.
At Leidos, we proudly embrace diversity and support our people at every stage of their Leidos journey in terms of inclusion, accessibility and flexibility. We have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions. And at Leidos you’ll enjoy flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing, 12 weeks paid parental leave as a primary carer and more. We look forward to welcoming you.
We embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Writing software, reviewing code changes, working with system services. Meetings, coffee, and free food occasionally.
As a systems engineer i am tasked with implementing engineering changes to consistent faults that occur within the systems that we look after. My role is very hands on and involves fault-finding and maintenance activities to ensure the systems are functional.
I really love that the large majority of my days are spent on development, with minimal meetings each week. Although the days can become repetitive, generally the work is satisfying.
About the employer
Leidos Australia
4.3
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Defence & Aerospace
Our mission is to Protect, and Advance the Australian way of Life and we do this through our work in Air, Defence, Intel and Cyber.
Pros and cons of working at Leidos Australia
Pros
Working arrangements are very flexible, I'm allowed to be autonomous in my work, and I feel that my contributions make an impact.
The culture is great... everyone gets along and works together well... we often do social things outside of work.
Extremely great at helping young starters improve their skills and gain the confidence to contribute to large projects.
Pretty good work-life balance, people are very understanding of personal commitments and are flexible around them.
You get to work on really cool projects that have a direct impact on the customer.
Cons
Too many meetings. Lots of jargon that is difficult to pick up initially.
Sometimes you can get bogged down in the paperwork and less on the fixing/designing new things however it's the same at every job.
Some meetings are unnecessary.
There's also not as much work-from-home flexibility, and high-security requirements can also be frustrating.
It doesn't seem very clear [what it takes to move up the ranks.