Accountant to Partner professional recruitment
Lawson Delaney’s Accounting Recruitment Practice is focused on providing search, professional recruitment and advisory services specifically tailored to professional services firms in the Accounting market, both locally in Melbourne 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 build long-lasting relationships.
Our team’s candidate focus ranges from Accountant positions through to Partner and Practice Lead roles. Our local, national and international clients include Big 4, top 10 global firms, large national firms and high calibre boutiques. We also support advisory, insolvency, corporate finance, insurance, risk, and tax consulting firms as well as Family Offices.
Our core disciplines are led by senior specialists with 10+ years' experience and each are recognised market leaders in their field. The largest in the Asia-Pacific region, our Melbourne-based team has over a century of combined Accounting recruitment experience.
Our Accounting recruitment team also work across:
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.Â
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 a conversation about this report or recruitment needs.
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.
P: 0494 091 112
E: george@lawsondelaney.com.au
As a part of the Lawson Delaney Professional Services team, George specialises in audit and tax recruitment due to his prior experience within these industries in the UK. George has a wealth of knowledge regarding the end-to-end recruitment process and prides himself on his consistent collaborative approach.
George 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 Health and Exercise Science degree, he worked in London for a specialist Professional Services recruitment agency. George specialises in recruiting all levels of auditors and tax professionals from graduates to partner level within the Professional Services Industry.
Who Earns More? Public Practice Accounting vs Industry Accounting
One of the biggest challenges faced by Accounting Public Practices is the steady stream of Accountants moving to Industry.
When speaking with these job seekers, earning potential is cited as a key reason for change... but do Industry Accountants actually earn more?
We asked Lawson Delaney's Directors, Colm Reddy and Guy Sigston, to discuss and give us the numbers!
For more information about this topic, get in touch with our team today on
03 9946 7300.