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Jessica Tenace joined Grant Thornton Australia as a graduate in our Audit & Assurance team. After a secondment in our London office, she took a sabbatical for two years to move back to the UK, and experience “life on the other side” in industry. ‘I didn’t fully appreciate how much I had learnt during my earlier years at Grant Thornton until I went on sabbatical, particularly the exposure audit gave to me from a financial reporting perspective. In industry I was able to further that development, and work with key management and stakeholders from a different perspective.’

Elliott joined us as a Corporate Finance vacationer in the summer of 2017-18 and continued on part time until starting as a graduate in November 2018.

Having left Grant Thornton to try an industry role in an engineering company, Shivani says that the experience on the client side has given her insight into what goes on in the background.