Why join the ANAO?
Well Rewarded – enjoy an attractive starting salary with excellent career progression opportunities.
Intensive Training – experience a robust individual career development program to extend your skills, with full support for CA, CPA, NIA or CISA qualifications.
Professionalism – we offer a work environment which understands its responsibilities professionally and supports high performance through respect for staff and their contribution to our achievements.
Variety of roles – While we always need talented accountants and finance experts, graduates of the Arts, Management, Law, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Commerce and Communications make up around half our staff. So whether you have an accounting degree or have strong research, analysis or writing skills, we have a role for you.
Job Diversity – great client variety with over
250 Commonwealth government departments agencies.
Real Impact – provide assurance on public sector performance and accountability. Work on complex and challenging projects that make a difference.
Work/Life Balance – we encourage flexible employment arrangements so you can balance work with outside interests.
What we do
Headed by the Auditor-General, the ANAO is an independent, objective auditor to the Commonwealth public sector. The ANAO provides Parliament with an independent assurance of public sector performance and accountability structures.
Assurance Audit
The Assurance Audit Group conducts annual financial statement audits of Australian government entities and agencies. It plays a crucial role in improving the standards of financial management and administration across the public sector. We are looking for graduates in Commerce/Accounting, Business/Accounting, Economics/Accounting or IT Systems/Accounting.
Performance Audit
Performance audit provides Parliament with assurance about the quality of public resource management. These audits also assist public sector managers by identifying and promoting better administrative and management practices. We are looking for graduates from a range of degrees which demonstrate strong research and analytical ability.
IT Audit
IT Audit provides leading edge IT support and resources to both Assurance and Performance Audit. IT Audit staff are drawn from a range of professional and technical backgrounds including: project management; system administration; database development; data analysis; and financial systems management. We are looking for graduates in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics.