Senior Financial Accountant, Australia

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Job Description

Background

This role is a 9 months fixed term contract.

The purpose of the role is to support the Australia Finance team in delivering the external reporting requirements of the Australia business across the multiple bases of reporting including US GAAP, Australia IFRS, LAGIC, Bermuda Monetary Authority and Economic Capital Base.

The role will be intimately involved in supporting key month end and quarter end processes, as well as annual statutory financial statement preparation. The role requires a deep understanding of the statutory, regulatory and technical accounting issues in the insurance industry.

The role is broad in nature and includes tax compliance (GST, Transfer Pricing, Corporate tax), accounting analysis and supporting internal and external audit requests.

Duties

Financial Reporting including month end/quarter end journal preparation for PLRA and UMA under various accounting bases (including US GAAP, IFRS, APRA), ensuring that the integrity of the process and the outputs are maintained and continuously improved.

• Perform and oversee monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations, ensuring the general ledger is accurately maintained and all interfacing systems are correctly posted. Oversee the consolidation of financial results and ensure accurate reporting to Group Finance.

• Support the preparation of accurate and comprehensive annual statutory financial statements, as well as regulatory and tax returns, in alignment with the December year-end reporting cycle

• Oversee corporate tax, GST, and other tax-related filings in collaboration with tax advisors

• Support intercompany reconciliations and transfer pricing arrangements.

Ensuring that the audit process is planned, coordinated and timed to ensure that regulatory reporting is within the agreed timetables.

Support the Finance Team by managing and participating in various tasks and ad-hoc projects as and when required

Manage and maintain an efficient process that enables systematic and organised filing for all documents

Qualifications & Experience

• Achieved Professional accounting designation (CPA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent)
• Minimum of 3 years accounting experience with core exposure to accounting, financial reporting and analysis
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and technical accounting skills
• Strong proficiency in general ledger systems and BI tools, with advanced Excel skills and experience using enterprise finance applications such as SAP AFO or PeopleSoft (or similar) Deep understanding of various accounting frameworks, including IFRS, US GAAP, and US tax accounting. Experience & good understanding of reinsurance/insurance accounting and knowledge of actuarial concepts is ideal, but not necessary.
• Strong interpersonal/negotiation skills with the ability to build relationships with different functional areas and work effectively within a team environment
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment
• Excellent time management skills, with the flexibility and efficiency to collaborate across multiple time zones and global teams
• Proactive, adaptable individual with strong leadership, and process evaluation abilities, with a holistic view to technology integration and automation

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits

• Group Income Protection

• SubsidisedGym Membership

• Employee Assistance Program (Access EAP)

• Australian Super

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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