Senior Financial Accountant

Job description

What you do

Reporting to the Head of Middle Office Pacific, the Senior Financial Accountant will play a key role in ensuring accounting standards and group accounting policy is complied with for accurate reporting of AzP accounts. The Senior Financial Accountant will;

·  Interpret and apply new accounting standards to AWP accounts
·  Coordinate external audit and prepare financial statements
·  Review full balance sheet, investigate unknown variances and provide a management summary for both AU & NZ.

 

Key responsibilities include:

·  Ensure local IFRS accounting policy is in line with group policy
·  Interpret and apply new accounting standards to AzP accounts
·  Coordinate external audit and prepare financial statements and Notes
·  Deliver Insurance LOB monthly results, perform the calculations related to provisions and accruals & manage related reporting requirements for both AU & NZ regions.
·  Ensure end of month close delivery for Insurance LOB. Perform sanity check on all Financial KPIs
·  Prepare the annual Financial statements and regulatory reporting and automate where possible. Provide commentary for material balances and variances to prior year.
·  Deliver the financial assurance framework over underwriting agency arrangements including review bordereaux reconciliations, reinsurance settlements and financial control reviews.
·  Analyse new accounting standards and determine appropriate treatment. Document a position paper where accounting treatment is reliant on a significant degree of interpretation.
·  Review balance sheet and ensure no material misstatements. Follow up with balance sheet owner for investigate any variances. Identify and implement further controls where necessary.
·  Manage the delivery of Finance user acceptance testing (UAT) for IT system changes impacting financial information to ensure integrity of financial data.
·  Working within well-defined finance procedure and following mapped processes.
·  Support Team Leader with other duties as required.

 

What you'd offer in this position:

 

Qualifications & Experience

·  CPA or CA qualified
·  Experience in interpreting and applying accounting standards
·  Experience in SAP and Cognos TM1 preferable

Skills

·  Excellent written communication skills
·  Analytical, with a strong eye for detail and a high level of financial acumen to achieve accurate and timely reporting of group results

Initiative

·  Effective time management skills, the capacity to meet deadlines, and the ability to operate efficiently under time constraints in a dynamic environment
·  Ability to assess best practice and instigate change

Professional Approach

·  Proven high level of professionalism, maturity and candour in daily work ethic
·  Outstanding communication skills and a collaborative working approach, fostering effective collaboration with finance and business stakeholders

Leadership

·  Willingness to provide support in leading the Financial Accounting team in the absence of or as requested by the Team leader and Accounting Manager.

 

 

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

 

61152 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

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