Outsourced accounting services

For international businesses, Australia remains an exciting and stable market for a range of industries and investments, where expansion opportunities are vast, and return on investment secure.

Many organisations – from established global players to fast-growing businesses tapping into a new jurisdiction for the first time – find great success from doing business in Australia.

What also makes Australia an appealing market for growth is that the set-up or presence of a finance or accounting function is not required in the traditional head office sense. Businesses are able to operate and trade in the country by purely dedicating internal resources, roles and functions on your core products and services.

Our Grant Thornton outsourced accounting services team works with international businesses looking to Australia for their investments and plans, who are not yet ready – now or ever – to build a finance function. We take care of your initial and ongoing regulatory, governance and finance requirements.

We know what it takes to do business in Australia from the outset: including setting up and building tax-efficient and optimised structures, dealing with lenders, regulators and other stakeholders, navigating visa and FIRB issues, managing premises, even market studies around the viability of your plans.

We act as a third-party partner to the business on your day-to-day finance and accounting needs – including tax and GST and other regulatory obligations, as well as forecasting, budgeting and financial reporting. We can scale up and down our offering as you look to grow or diversify and develop tailored annualised or periodic reporting for your regional, or global parent companies.

Accessing our national and global network

Grant Thornton has offices across Australia in Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. We take a national approach to our tax, accounting and advisory services, which means wherever your business is operating, you have access to complete and consistent support.

Our global Grant Thornton network, which includes more than 56,000 people working across over 140 countries, means you have access to experts working in the jurisdictions in which you want to do business. By engaging with our Grant Thornton team, through a single point of contact, you receive a relationship leader who can bridge the gap, connecting you to the right people, teams and resources you need to make your international strategy a success.