2025/26 Cyber Summer Vacation Program (Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth)

Division: Advisory 

Department: Cyber 

Employment Type: Casual 

Application Closing Date: 24 Aug 2025

McGrathNicol empowers you to make the greatest impact on your career, our performance and our clients’ future. We are a specialist Restructuring and Advisory firm, committed to helping businesses perform at their best, manage risk, and achieve stability and growth. Join our team of more than 350 high-performing experts, taking pride in making an impact.

We have Summer Vacation opportunities available in our Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth offices.

Our Cyber team specialise in working with clients to proactively manage technology and information security risks. We help set governance strategies, design frameworks and respond to time critical cyber and privacy related matters. As a Graduate, you will be exposed to all aspects of our cyber services such as:

• Cyber Strategy & Risk – Providing expert advice that extends beyond the theory, and working to roadmap, design and deliver practical initiatives that build ongoing security capability in organisations;
• Digital Forensics – Conducting forensic imaging of computers, mobiles and technology to preserve, collect and analyse as part of a detailed forensic process for disputes and investigations;
• eDiscovery – Handling critical and sensitive data in legal proceedings, including data collection, preservation and processing large file sets;
• Incident Response & Recovery – Providing expert incident response and crisis management in high paced environments, to effectively resolve cyber incidents and implement improvements for the future; and
• Cyber Defence – Strengthening cyber defence through penetration testing and vulnerability management, security testing assessments and developing fundamental security initiatives.

What we offer you

• Our Summer Vacation Program will provide you with real world commercial experience across a variety of different projects and industries. 
• The program commences with a two-day national induction intensive in our Sydney office where you will have the opportunity to meet and learn from a range of McGrathNicol experts through structured sessions, networking and social events. 
• We offer a unique opportunity to shadow senior staff and Partners, learning and gaining valuable insights from some of the best in the industry. You will also have a Buddy, Time Manager, Counselling Manager and Counselling Partner responsible for providing you with a variety of interesting work, as well as general support and guidance throughout your placement.
• High performing Vacationers may be offered a permanent full-time Graduate position.

Who you are

• an Australian / New Zealand Citizen or Australian Permanent Resident at the time of submitting your application;
• in your penultimate year of a STEM or Information Technology / Cyber related degree; and
• available to commence work for a four-week period in either November 2025 or January 2026, or an eight-week period commencing in November 2025.

Interested? If you're ready to make a lasting impact and grow your career, apply today to join our dynamic team at McGrathNicol.