Opportunities from Graduate to Partner roles
Lawson Delaney’s Accounting recruitment team focuses on helping candidates, from Accountant through to Practice Leads, find their dream job. Whether you are an early-career professional or Partner, our experienced team is committed to helping you find a role that suits your current needs and will enable you to flourish. Our team has extensive experience in the SMSF, Business Services, Audit, Tax, and Accounting market, both locally and nationally.
We have built a reputation of going beyond that of a transactional recruiter by giving back to the market we are passionate about. Not only do we organise mentor programs and regularly host industry-relevant seminars, we give objective market and career advice daily which enables us to provide you with the most relevant industry knowledge.
Our core disciplines are led by senior specialists with 10+ years' experience and each are recognised market leaders in their field.
For more information, please contact Darren Banfield on 0475 703 149 or darren@lawsondelaney.com.au.
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Accounting Firm Salary Report FY22/23
Lawson Delaney is proud to present our 22/23 Financial Year Accounting Firm Salary Guide.
As we reflect on the last 12 months, several key themes emerge: competition, reflection, and the growing importance of technical accounting skills. This report aims to provide insight into these trends and their implications whilst comparing figures annually from FY19.
Additionally, where we have seen noticeable differences in remuneration between larger firms and smaller high-performing boutiques, we have shown the salaries separately to illustrate this.
Our team is on hand to provide context to the nuances around the numbers, please get in touch for personalised career guidance.
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Meet the Professional Services team
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P: 0484 963 390
E: colm@lawsondelaney.com.au
Colm has been working in the recruitment industry since 2008 having completed his Masters of Business Management. He joined Lawson Delaney in its infancy back in 2013 and has been heavily involved in the growth of the Professional Services team.
Colm has a unique background having worked within online recruitment job boards, LinkedIn Talent Solutions and recruitment agencies. He has gained this exposure across the globe in Ireland, Dubai, India, China, and since 2011, Australia. By the age of 24, Colm was managing a business and by 25, Colm had 70 people reporting to him. This experience has given him a unique perspective of seeing recruitment from multiple angles and sometimes through different languages.
Throughout his career, Colm has always stayed true to his core value of helping people in an honest, transparent manner. It was due to this that Colm organised Lawson Delaney’s first Pathways to Partnership event which involved a panel of four diversely successful Accounting Partners and over 100 Business Services Accountant guests. Following this event, Colm managed Lawson Delaney’s first Pathway to Partnership mentoring program where 21 prominent Partners mentored future stars of the profession for a year. No money was exchanged at all, it was purely to give back to the industry and to help the people within it.
Colm was recently chosen as one of the top five recruiters in Australia across every market by recruitment’s industry body, RCSA. He wants to continue his passion in helping people secure opportunities that will improve their lives. He focuses on Business Services and SMSF Accountants up to Partner level.
P: 0472 510 481
E: lee@lawsondelaney.com.au
Lee joined Lawson Delaney’s Professional Services team having recruited within various industries in the UK. Lee has a wealth of knowledge of the end to end recruitment process and prides himself on his consistent collaborative approach.
Lee is an effective communicator who places emphasis on really understanding client and candidate needs to ensure both parties have a positive experience. His aim is to provide a seamless recruitment process; adding value and creating long lasting relationships.
Following his Sports Management degree, Lee travelled the globe experiencing a multitude of people and cultures. It was this that prompted him to forge a career in recruitment, allowing him to communicate with people on a daily basis, with excellent customer service at the forefront of every interaction.
Lee specialises in recruiting all levels of Accountants from graduates to partner level within the Business Services sector.
P: 0472 512 116
E: tania@lawsondelaney.com.au
Commencing her recruitment career in Perth in 1999, Tania has gained a reputation for providing exceptional candidates and consulting services to organisations across New Zealand and Australia. She is motivated by genuine value-add solutions that assist the Accounting market, both in the short and long term.
Tania started out within a large, global recruitment consultancy that transferred her to their offices in Auckland, NZ. There, Tania honed her expertise of recruiting Accountants across the senior finance market in commerce and industry, and at all levels within professional practice. This was complemented by several years recruiting in the legal sector and Executive search and selection.
Relocating to Melbourne in 2021, Tania’s focus is to use her strong market knowledge, to ensure the unique match that helps both individuals and companies to flourish.
She holds a Master of Arts in Psychology with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland. With their many and varied interests, primary school age twins keep her on her toes.
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