FS360 Podcast - Episode 56: Working at Mulcahy & Co
If you’ve ever hoped to work in your field of study before you graduate from university, working at Mulcahy & Co could be your ideal next step.
Jumping on the FS360 podcast with Gavin Nash, Mulcahy & Co Geelong Graduate Accountants Lochie Hosking and Zach Rockett discussed their transition from study into working at Mulcahy & Co.
Hosking joined the business in the final year of his Commerce degree, working part-time before taking on a full-time role the following year.
“(I went) up the highway (to Ballarat) three or four times a week to sort of learn the ins and outs of what we were going to be doing once the Geelong office was set up the way it is now,” Hosking said.
“There’s obviously a fair few more staff in the Ballarat office than there is in Geelong, so there was a lot of people to pick the brains of.”
Financial Planner Danny Archer said working at Mulcahy & Co while still studying had benefits for the business but also the individual.
“For the person or for the student, it’s a good opportunity for them to try the business on for size a little bit. What’s the culture like? Do they feel like they fit in?,” he said.
“Do they have potentially working from home arrangements or flexible working arrangements?”
For Rockett, he applied for a job through Seek once he had graduated, the multi-divisional aspect of Mulcahy & Co attracting him to the role.
“I definitely liked how there were multiple avenues … the different aspects of Mulcahy whether that’s accounting, lending, legal, finance, all that sort of stuff,” he said.
“I felt like I wasn’t going to be shoe boxed into one area … you get broad access to all these different services.”
That ties in with the Financial Security 360 process at Mulcahy & Co, a 12-step process to help clients go from the start of their financial life through to financial security.
“On a real basic level here, if I’m doing a tax return and someone has an investment portfolio and I know that Danny and the finance team can help provide that statement … (so) I don’t have to go back to the client, that’s one of the examples,” Rockett said of his role in the process.
Hosking added that any questions a client has could be answered by someone in the Mulcahy team.
“We get a lot of questions from clients and we don’t know the answer to all of those questions … if it’s a financial planning question, we’ll go and seek Danny, if it’s a legal query we’ll go and see Rhylee (Hanrahan),” he said.
Rockett and Hosking are both completing their Chartered Accountant course, something Mulcahy has assisted them in.
“Having two accounting partners that have already gone through (it) … it’s really easy to, if we have any questions … we can sort of pick their brains,” Hosking said.
“We’ve got study leave that’s set up, two days per unit that we do … to be able to prioritise that study … I’m really, really grateful that Mulcahy offer that.”
For more information on work life at Mulcahy & Co and to see our current positions available, click here: www.mulcahy.com.au/careers
Episode 56
Working at Mulcahy & Co - What's it like? Are the managers helpful? Can you study? Is it flexible?
All these questions and more are answered here when Hosts Gavin Nash and Danny Archer chat with young Accountants Lochie and Zach from our Geelong office.
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