Hi and welcome to Flinders University
I'm Monika and i studied a Bachelor of Accounting
and Finance I also did a Bachelor of Laws and Legal
Practice I worked for William Buck as a graduate
accountant in the superannuation division
William Buck is a mid-tier accounting firm across
Australia and New Zealand. My career journey began
in law and finance and I wanted to get as much work experience as possible to
really find out what I wanted to do. I was fortunate enough to gain an
internship at William Buck through the chartered accountants achiever program
I did four week placement at William Buck
and ended up really loving my whole time there and especially
the superannuation division and that ultimately
led to an undergraduate role while I completed my accounting here at Flinders
it's now eventuated into a graduate role.
At Flinders I studied law finance and accounting and am ultimately
working as an accountant while all the accounting subjects gave
me the main practical knowledge that I use at my
work on a day-to-day basis I don't think any
study ever goes wasted I still use my law
background on a day-to-day basis with the ever-changing tax and super laws.
I think one of the main changes that's
happening now in the accounting industry is that things are becoming more and
more automated I know some people find this a bit scary
and think oh does that mean we don't need accountants going forward
but I don't think that's true at all I just
think the role is slightly changing to needing to be able to understand what
you're doing, know the background behind everything
rather than just you know crunching the numbers and
that's it. At Flinders the subjects are all so
practical and relevant which really ultimately helped me
with my career goals they push us to gain as much practical
experience early on in our studies, one example is in the law degree
they encourage us to do an internship at the Flinders Legal Centre
this is a really great opportunity to meet
some clients work on some real-life cases and it's all done
under the supervision of a practicing solicitor.
Flinders has so many people available to help you with your career choices they
have careers counsellors, people that can help you with your CV's, they run
networking nights, there's also constant help available at Flinders Connect where
people can help you with subject choices or any other questions that you might have.
Over the next few years I'd love to gain
some new experiences and continue to challenge myself,
I also may wish to do some further study such as the Chartered Accountant
Program which William Buck support their staff to complete
Outside of study and work I really do love travelling and going to new places
The Learn Without Borders team at Flinders helped me to organise
an exchange so I went to Keele University in the United Kingdom for a
semester this was an incredible experience and it
really broadened my horizons and my study and everything
My tip for anyone studying at Flinders is to really get connected,
embrace the uni life it goes quicker than you might
think at the time so really do an exchange,
join a club, just really immerse yourself in the whole uni experience and make the
most of it. Flinders also provided me with another
opportunity by offering me a role as a casual tutor
for their Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme. I worked as a casual
tutor for the scheme for the past five years and I got to
work with some of our incredible Indigenous students here
at Flinders. The best thing about studying accounting
at Flinders is all the incredible academic staff we have here and how
practical the subjects are. They all really help
you with your day-to-day life as an accountant.