Our culture

Our values

Our values are at the very heart of our firm and guide the way we interact within our firm teams, with our clients, and the manner in which we interact and engage with you.

Love your work

• Care for clients

• Love the work you do

• Enjoy yourself

Value awards

Each season, our people are given the chance to nominate a colleague or team who stands out as going above and beyond in demonstrating our firm values.

Social Club

Our dedicated social club coordinates a range of events to fill up your social calendar. This committee is employee led and the events cater to all tastes whether it be social drinks and trivia to the Annual Ball, which is a big crowd pleaser! 

"The ShineWing Australia Social Club offers employees the opportunity to socialise and get to know their colleagues through various Club run events throughout the year. These events, which have varied from Comedy nights, to Gelato days to a day at the Races, allows SineWing employees to mingle with other staff members that they might not have otherwise in a professional environment. Personally, Social Club run events have allowed me to interact and make friends with staff in other teams and other divisions within the firm." Matt Haynes, Senior Consultant Business and Private Client Advisory

"Being on the Social Club committee allows us to come up with fun activities for everyone to enjoy. It’s rewarding to see employees enjoying the events that we organise." Tricia Ong, Consultant Tax

Creating opportunities together

At ShineWing Australia, we are committed to giving back to our community and have an established Co2 Committee who drive our dedicated CSR initiatives. We encourage representatives from all levels, divisions and locations to get involved and make a difference to an area that matters to them most!

Currently we are active in supporting a range of charities and activities such as:

• Cancer Council

• CEO Sleepout

• Fitted for Work

• Liptember

• Starlight Children's Foundation

• Red Cross Blood Donations

• Royal Children's Hospital Appeal

• Movember

"To me, there are multiple reasons why our Co2 Committee makes a difference. It’s firstly about raising awareness and educating our people, our partners and our broader client networks about issues that affect our community. And to take on initiatives that create real impact and awareness within our community and for our people.   As part of the Co2 Committee I have participated in The Vinnies CEO Sleepout for the past four years. This one-night event helps to raise much needed awareness for the many Australians that experience homelessness. The challenge of sleeping just one night on the cold concreate during Winter with other ShineWing Australia Partners, has provided us all with thoughtful perspective for just how tough some Australian’s sleep every night." Matthew Oakey, Partner Business and Private Client Advisory

"Co2 provides an opportunity for the firm to connect through initiatives outside the normal course of business that are aimed at promoting wellbeing and giving back to the community. We make a difference by seeking out opportunities to get involved that everyone can participate in, while also allowing committee members to connect and promote activities that are important to us." Josie Ryan, Manager Assurance and Advisory

Learning & Development

At ShineWing Australia we are passionate about building the capabilities of our people and supporting their career growth. Our tailored learning framework BOLD (Building Our Leadership and Development) framework clarifies behaviour and capability expectations of our employees at every level. Our programs are purpose built and tailored to our people, their profession and their personal interests. 

"Our BOLD Framework is designed to provide focussed learning & development programs to continuously develop knowledge, behavious and capabilities of our people. It allows us to support and guide our people to strengthen and develop their behaviours and capabilities to not only succeed in their current role, but also as they progress to different stages of their career." Lisa-Maree Marshall, Learning and Development Specialist Practice Support Group

Celebrations

We love to get our social on and celebrate the big and the small moments that matter. Each office has its own unique identity and ways of engaging whether it be a themed end of month drinks, breakfast club or specific divisional get-together that celebrate the end of the busy season or a new client win.

We continue to support work-life balance and recognise that our people have busy lives outside of work. As an employee benefit the firm provides two additional paid days off each year for our people to enjoy. 

Diversity & Inclusion

At ShineWing Australia, our clients operate across the globe and our people reflect this diversity. Our people come from many different walks of life and cultural backgrounds and we thrive with this diversity.

In November 2018 we conducted our two year Engagement Pulse survey, with 80% of our people responding to provide us with insight into the diversity and inclusion of our firm. 

90% feel the firm provides an inclusive environment

Other key figures include:

Gender

• 50.5% identified as female

• 49.5% identified as male

Ethnicities

• 26 different ethnicities were identified

• 88% of staff identified as Australian or Chinese and the remaining 22% were a mix from Europe & UK, Africa, Asia and Oceania

• 35 people identified with more than 1 ethnicity

Languages 

• 28 languages are spoken (other than English) 

• 69 people are able to provide translation assistance

• 25% of our people speak conversational Mandarin as a minimum

Mental wellbeing at work

Our firm has a very strong focus on mental health and ensuring that we provide resources for our people so that they feel supported and heard. We participate in numerous mental health related initiatives, such as R U OK? Day, Liptember & Movemeber and staff events for National Mental Health Month. 

This year we partnered with The Resilience Project to share an online Wellbeing Series created to support our staff's mental and physical health. This short series of webinars and resources demonstrated to our people the importance of empathy, mindfulness and gratitude to name a few. In light of COVID-19, these workshops have delivered some powerful messages to our people.  

Office locations

Our offices are based in the heart of the CBD in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. With lots of amazing lunch spots and coffee nooks, we’ve got everyone tastes covered. Make sure to ask our people for their recommendations!

Melbourne

Level 10
530 Collins Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Australia

Tel: +61 3 8635 1800
Fax: +61 3 8102 3400

Sydney

Level 8
167 Macquarie Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia

Tel: +61 2 8059 6800
Fax: +61 2 8059 6899

Brisbane

Level 14
12 Creek Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
Australia

Tel: +61 7 3085 0888
Fax: +61 7 3058 0899

Awards

Our hard work and dedication has been recognised by our clients in the beaton Client Choice Awards for the past three years. We have also been recognised for delivering award winning intern and graduate program in each of the past four years. 

beaton Client Choice Awards

Finalist Best Accounting Firm 2018, 2019 & 2020
Finalist Most Innovative Firm 2020

AFR Top 100 Graduate Employers 2018, 2019 & 2020

Listed in the Top 100 by AFR & GradConnection

Top Graduate Employers: 2017, 2018 & 2019

Ranked #1 in 2017 & listed Top 6: 2018 & 2019 (AAGE)

Top Graduate Employers: 2017, 2018 & 2020

Listed Top 10, 2017 and ranked #23 AAGE

A sustainable vision: supporting our communities

As a firm, we prioritise our impact on the environment and aim to implement sustainable practices.

We are the first professional services and advisory firm in the world to adopt the ReThink Sustainability Index, as a mechanism to measure culture and performance against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

We also have a Sustainability Commitment which has been endorsed by our Board and Executive.