Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $131 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2024). Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement.
We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
Join us as a Financial Accountant – Year-End Support (6 Month Contract)
Opportunity to work on critical year-end activities and high-impact financial reporting projects in a dynamic ASX listed financial services business.
Exposure to Group, Life, and Funds Management Financial Control teams, gaining broad experience across different business areas.
We work flexibly from our Sydney CBD office, typically balancing three days in the office with two days from home.
As a Financial Accountant, you’ll play a key role in supporting year-end reporting and financial control activities. This is a hands-on role where you’ll contribute to critical reporting processes, ensuring accurate financial results and maintaining strong financial controls, whilst partnering with the business and auditors.
You’ll work closely with the Group, Life, and Funds Management Financial Control teams, helping to deliver half-year and year-end reporting.
Key responsibilities include but aren’t limited to
Year-end reporting
Assist with ASX-listed financial reporting and preparation of statutory accounts.
Prepare audit files and liaise with auditors and senior management to resolve queries.
Contribute to the half year and full year reporting cycle, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
Financial control
Supporting month-end close activities, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
Prepare consolidation entries and ensure correct treatment of intercompany transactions.
Perform balance sheet reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and resolve issues.
Assist in preparing balance sheet, income statement, cash flow reporting and related analysis.
Prepare timely, complete and accurate balance sheet reconciliations.
The skills and experience you’ll need
CA/CPA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent)
Experience in financial control or audit, ideally within Life insurance, funds management or other financial services.
Ability to work with large data sets.
Experience with consolidated groups, financial instruments, and tax reporting (preferred but not essential).
A strong communicator, with an ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
Working understanding of IFRS and regulatory reporting requirements.
Additional Information
Working at Challenger means being part of a diverse, connected team that has fun and loves what they do. We’re small enough, but big enough to accelerate bold ideas, realising what’s possible for our customers and partners.
Visit our benefits page for more information https://www.challenger.com.au/about-us/careers/our-benefits
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We value inclusion and diversity of thought, promote flexible working practices so our people can integrate their work and personal lives, and are proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
We believe in bringing your authentic self and a belonging in our culture. We are prideful in participating in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) as a national benchmark on LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and best practice in Australia. We offer the opportunity for a broad career experience and value people who are inquisitive and rigorous and are driven to make a difference.
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What We Do
Challenger Life is Australia’s largest provider of annuities and provides regular income to thousands of customers. We’re a multi-award-winning Life Company and have $23 billion in assets under management (as at 30 June 2023). Challenger is focused on providing customers with financial security for retirement. We do this by offering investment strategies that exhibit consistently superior performance, and by helping customers in retirement with safe and reliable income streams. As Australia’s largest annuity provider, we provide regular income payments to thousands of Australian retirees. Our lifetime annuities protect retirees from the risk of running out of money late in life. The regular retirement incomes we pay are backed by a high-quality investment portfolio, including fixed income and commercial property investments. These investments generate regular and predictable investment income, which we use to fund retirement incomes paid to our customers. For our social media disclaimer statement, visit: http://www.challenger.com.au/Disclaimer
