Job Satisfaction at Queensland Audit Office

I perform lots of financial audit tasks.

I work across different areas including data supply, audit support, building custom solutions / dashboards for audit teams, and ad-hoc analysis

Engaging with clients, testing controls, gathering information, documenting findings.

My role is very fulfilling. There is a lot to learn about the specific day-to-day operations and practices at QAO - because of this, I'm adequately challenged and work is never (excepting some trivial auditing work) boring. With that said, I also feel that the skills I have are being put to good use, and I never feel completely out of my depth when starting tasks and projects.

No two days are the same at QAO, with a range of clients you are bound to find yourself completing new tasks often. Most work at the graduate level involves completing workpapers and testing to ensure that areas of financial statements are correct and accurate.

* Collaboration with colleagues * Completing auditing workpapers * Building relationships with the client * Assisting the team where required

You are assigned an area to work on for the duration of the audit visit. It is up to you to manage your time and complete the allocated work. So, in that sense, they are quite reasonable with workload and deadlines. However, there is often little guidance on what you have to do and little explanation on why you are doing it. Teams, including the graduates, suffer the consequences of under-resourcing.

Varied work which makes it more interesting and satisfying! Looking at different Cotabs, different testing styles, reports, working within different entities and creating, editing and preparing your own work.

My day-to-day has gotten more interesting with time, working on more and more complex activities. I feel like my brain is stimulated and I'm working on dynamic issues. Sometimes this is broken up by short periods of repetitive easier tasks, but this is more refreshing than boring.

Auditing financial statements and maintaining client relations.

As a graduate I am still learning and getting into the role. I look forward to being more knowledgeable and having more responsibility within my teams.

I do a lot of testing for different audits. This feels like doing little experiments every day and is very satisfying.

As an auditor at the Queensland Audit Office, there are opportunities to work across financial audits, performance audits, and information system audits. My main role is to assist with the completion of financial audits by maintaining communication with clients, reviewing documents, and reporting back to my line managers my findings.

I speak to clients to understand how controls are performed and request documentation. I then sample the documentation to ensure it satisfies the control criteria.

My day-to-day responsibilities are to analyse the evidence provided by clients and check it against the control testing to see if it meets the requirements laid out in the work program.

Despite being a graduate performance auditor, I am included in high level meetings about audit strategy and my input is sought for and appreciated. Day-to-day, I seek to understand the issues and government strategies involved with the area of our audit investigation, being mostly independent with my section of the audit.