EY helps clients create long-term value for all stakeholders. Enabled by data and technology, our services and solutions provide trust through assurance and help clients transform, grow and operate.
At EY, our purpose is building a better working world. The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets.
We believe an inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can achieve their full potential is central to achieving our purpose of building a better working world.
EY Global Executive (GE) Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness Statement
Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DE&I) are core to who we are, how we work and how we live our values. We hold a collective commitment to continue to drive an environment where all differences are valued, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging — where people are inspired to team and lead inclusively in their interactions every day.
Our Indigenous Vacationer and Graduate Programs are open for applications year-round. Through these programs, participants will partner with an Indigenous mentor, connect with other Indigenous people in office and across the country while gaining valuable experience, skills and networks.
We also offer paid, multi-year internships through our partnership with CareerTrackers, a national purpose-driven organisation that supports pre-professional Indigenous university students.
CareerSeekers is a non-profit organisation supporting Australia’s humanitarian entrants into professional careers. We are proud to partner with CareerSeekers to offer paid internships for university students who are asylum seekers or refugees.
EY is proud to have Silver membership with the Australian Network on Disability (AND). EY offers internships for university students with lived experience of disability through AND’S Stepping Into Program.
EY networks, communities, and inclusion initiatives
EY people make us what we are. The experiences and impact they’ve had here transcend borders, industries and cultures. Read how they are personalising their career journeys and building their own exceptional EY experience.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness social impact initiatives
EY Ripples
EY Ripples is EY’s global corporate responsibility program that empowers EY people to use their knowledge, skills and experience to positively impact lives in the communities where we live and work. With a bold ambition to positively impact one billion lives globally by 2030, EY Ripples is focused on harnessing the power of our people and networks in three areas of focus:
Supporting the next generation workforce. Supporting young and underserved people to develop the mindsets and transferable skills they need most to find and sustain meaningful work.
Working with impact entrepreneurs. Helping scale small and growing businesses that purposefully drive progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Accelerating environmental sustainability. Driving the adoption of behaviours, technologies and business models that protect and regenerate the environment while unlocking economic opportunity.
Through EY Ripples there are opportunities for EY people to support a diverse range of individuals and organisations who are working to address social disadvantage and equity.
Examples of organisations we have supported or collaborated with include the following.
ABCN is a purpose-led not-for-profit organisation that brings businesses and schools together to address educational disadvantage. They connect volunteers from member companies (businesses) with students from low socio-economic backgrounds to provide fun, workplace-based mentoring programs that develop students’ confidence, skills and aspirations vital for thriving in the workplace of the future. This includes the Focus program, focused on supporting young women to develop leadership skills, confidence and aspirations.
Ngarrimili is an organisation which nurtures and supports business and entrepreneurship opportunities among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Victoria. In 2022 EY collaborated with Ngarrimili to develop a series of five business clinics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneurs at the start-up or concept stage. These business clinics covered business development, accessing government support, customer research, company structures and good business finance practice.
EY developed and launched the She Starts Out program in 2021, a business mentoring program aimed at social impact entrepreneurs in Australia and New Zealand who identify as LGBTQ women or non-binary people. The program was designed to create a space for these entrepreneurs to flourish and grow, through a series of EY business clinics specifically tailored for social impact businesses, as well as access to an EY business mentors for guidance and support. After a successful 2021 program, She Starts Out was delivered again in 2022.
Fitted for Work helps Australian women experiencing disadvantage to get work, keep work and strive at work. Their clients include: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women, women with a disability and women experiencing homelessness. In 2022 EY volunteers hosted careers workshops to help provide Fitted for Work clients with practical skills, knowledge, self-esteem and know-how so that they can move forward with confidence in the workplace.
She’s A Crowd is a feminist tech start-up using the power of storytelling to make cities safer for women. This social enterprise crowd sources data on gender-based violence and uses the insights to work with governments and other agencies and organisations to improve safety. As part of the Scaling Impact program by Social Impact Hub, EY people provided data strategy and outcomes measurement pro bono consulting services to help She’s A Crowd.
Ardoch is a children’s education charity focused on improving educational outcomes for children and young people in disadvantaged communities. One of the programs EY have collaborated on is the Literacy Buddies program. Literacy Buddies aims to support students with a positive adult, working role model so that students can develop their writing skills and relationships by communicating in writing during the year. The program includes two visits: Big Buddies visit the school and Little Buddies visit the EY workplace.
Western Chances is a not-for-profit organisation in Melbourne’s west which supports young people facing financial barriers to achieve their potential through scholarships, opportunity programs and ongoing support. Each year since 2019, EY volunteer mentors have providing 1:1 coaching to support the Western Chances’ scholarship recipients as they completed their post-school education and training journeys.
AMES Australia is a not-for-profit organisation which supports asylum seekers, refugees, newly arrived migrants and skilled professionals. AMES helps them realise their dream of building a new and better life in Australia, settling safely, finding work and being welcomed into their local community. Beginning in 2022 and continuing in 2023 EY volunteers have supported AMES’ clients’ efforts to find meaningful work by offering mock interviews, CV writing support and career planning panels.
Ernst & Young, Australia (EY Australia) acknowledges the traditional custodians throughout Australia and their continuing connection to the land, waters and community. We pay our respects to all members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their cultures, and to Elders both past and present.
