Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128.2 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2025). 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 – Group Finance Year-End Support (6 Month Contract)
Play a key role in critical year-end activities and high-impact Group financial reporting projects within a dynamic, ASX-listed financial services business.
Work closely with the Group Financial Control team and key stakeholders across the Group to deliver accurate, timely and well-governed outcomes.
We work flexibly from our Sydney CBD office, typically balancing three days in the office with two days from home.
This is an ideal opportunity for a proactive financial accountant looking to build their listed reporting experience in a highly collaborative Group Finance team.
About the role
This is a hands‑on Financial Accountant role, where you’ll contribute directly to critical month‑end close and annual reporting processes. You will provide timely, accurate and complete financial information that feeds into reports for our senior leaders and investors. You’ll maintain strong financial controls and act as a proactive business partner.
In addition to the above, your work will include:
Preparing and posting journals
Preparing balance sheet reconciliations
Monitoring group intercompany balances
Owning the end-to end accounting processes for some corporate entities, including preparation of stand-alone annual financial reports and related Board papers for Challenger subsidiaries, along with presenting them to internal Boards.
Contribute to the preparation of the Group annual financial report and other ASX-listed financial reporting requirements.
Compile audit support and liaise with external auditors and internal staff to resolve queries.
Providing ad hoc accounting support to business partners as needed.
The skills and experience you’ll need
You’ll be CA/CPA qualified (or equivalent), with some post‑qualification experience in audit or commercial accounting, and hands‑on exposure to month‑end close, reconciliations, year‑end and statutory reporting
You'll be a self-starter with a growth mindset—you can work independently and meet deadlines with efficiency and ease. You embrace challenges and want to learn new things.
Ideally, you’ll also have experience within a financial services or ASX-listed environment as well as:
Working knowledge of AASB and IFRS accounting standard
Experience preparing or auditing annual financial reports (financial statements and notes)
Excel skills (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, etc.) and familiarity with Workday, Workiva or similar systems.
Exposure to consolidation accounting, intercompany transactions, and eliminations in a multi-entity environment.
Clear communication skills—able to effectively communicate with your peers and senior members of staff when discussing both financial and non-financial topics
A bias for action and collaboration across the business.
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.
We support your growth and development, offering flexibility and a culture that values your unique contributions.
We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment. Visit our benefits page for more information https://www.challenger.com.au/about-us/careers/our-benefits
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Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen. Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.
We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.
Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.
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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
