About the Role
This role owns tax effect accounting and financial statement integration for the AMP Group. It ensures accurate tax provisions, deferred tax recognition and recoverability assessments, and disclosures in line with AASB 112 Income Taxes, supporting reliable external reporting and strategic decision-making. The role is a critical line of defence in the Group's financial reporting framework.
Responsibilities
- Lead tax effect accounting and reporting activities, including current and deferred tax calculations, DTA/DTL recognition, recoverability assessments, temporary difference analysis, tax provisions, effective tax rate reconciliations and tax disclosures in accordance with AASB 112, AASB 101 and AASB 134.
- Support the Group's financial reporting and close processes, partnering with Statutory Reporting and Group Finance teams to deliver accurate quarterly and annual reporting, financial statement analysis, variance explanations, and Audit Committee reporting.
- Provide tax advisory and modelling support on business transactions, investments, restructures and emerging regulatory developments, assessing potential financial and tax impacts across the Group.
- Manage relationships with auditors and advisors, preparing audit-ready workpapers, responding to audit queries and supporting the Head of Tax on key stakeholder engagements.
- Drive continuous improvement in tax processes and governance, leveraging technology, automation and AI-enabled analytics to enhance efficiency, insight and reporting quality.
Requirements
- Ideally at least 6-8+ years' post-qualification corporate tax experience, including within a Big 4 firm and/or an APRA-regulated or ASX-listed organisation.
- Extensive experience in tax effect accounting, tax provisioning, deferred tax accounting and financial statement analysis.
- Excellent technical expertise in AASB 112 Income Taxes, Australian income tax law and financial reporting requirements, with experience supporting ASX-listed reporting obligations and external audits.
- Outstanding financial accounting, analytical and quantitative skills, including reconciliations, modelling, deferred tax asset recoverability assessments and complex tax reporting.
- Demonstrated experience with, or strong interest in, leveraging AI, automation and data analytics to enhance tax provisioning, financial analysis and reporting processes.
- Exceptional English language communication skills (written and verbal), including the ability to produce clear, professional documentation and present complex accounting and tax matters effectively to diverse audiences.
- Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Commerce or a related discipline.
- CA or CPA qualification essential.
- Additional qualifications in STEM, Quantitative Finance, Actuarial Studies, Business Analytics or Data Science highly regarded.
- Experience with financial and tax technology platforms such as CCH Tax Centre, Thomson Reuters OneSource or similar solutions, together with Power BI for data visualisation, analytics and reporting, would be well regarded.
- A Tax Institute Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) qualification would also be well regarded, although not essential.
- Technically strong tax accounting professional with extensive experience in tax effect accounting, financial reporting and corporate tax within a complex, regulated environment.
- Sound financial reporting judgement, exceptional analytical capability and a commitment to delivering accurate, audit-ready work.
- Ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, Audit and external advisers.
- Ability to communicate complex tax and accounting matters clearly.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and reporting deadlines.
Skills
- Tax effect accounting
- Financial statement integration
- Tax provisions
- Deferred tax recognition
- Recoverability assessments
- AASB 112 Income Taxes
- External reporting
- Strategic decision-making
- Financial reporting
- Close processes
- Statutory Reporting
- Group Finance
- Financial statement analysis
- Variance explanations
- Audit Committee reporting
- Tax advisory
- Modelling
- Business transactions
- Investments
- Restructures
- Regulatory developments
- Auditor relationships
- Advisor relationships
- Audit-ready workpapers
- Stakeholder engagements
- Process improvement
- Governance
- Technology
- Automation
- AI-enabled analytics
- Efficiency enhancement
- Insight generation
- Reporting quality
- Corporate tax
- Big 4 firm experience
- APRA-regulated organisation experience
- ASX-listed organisation experience
- Tax provisioning
- Deferred tax accounting
- Australian income tax law
- Financial reporting requirements
- ASX-listed reporting obligations
- External audits
- Financial accounting
- Analytical skills
- Quantitative skills
- Reconciliations
- Deferred tax asset recoverability assessments
- Complex tax reporting
- AI
- Data analytics
- English language communication
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Professional documentation
- Presentation skills
- Accounting
- Finance
- Economics
- Commerce
- CA qualification
- CPA qualification
- STEM qualifications
- Quantitative Finance qualifications
- Actuarial Studies qualifications
- Business Analytics qualifications
- Data Science qualifications
- CCH Tax Centre
- Thomson Reuters OneSource
- Power BI
- Data visualisation
- Tax Institute Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) qualification
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6-8+ years' post-qualification corporate tax experience
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Commerce or a related discipline
- CA or CPA qualification
- Additional qualifications in STEM, Quantitative Finance, Actuarial Studies, Business Analytics or Data Science highly regarded
- Tax Institute Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) qualification
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing support
- Opportunities to volunteer, fundraise and give back to the community
About the Company
- AMP is a nimbler business with new leadership and thinking, redefining financial services.
- We help people with their banking, super, retirement and finances through upturns, downturns, recessions, and major life transitions.
- We have been helping people for over 170 years.
- We genuinely add to the prosperity of our country and its people.
- We are an iconic Australian brand.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe in the power of inclusion and diversity.
- We're dedicated to fostering inclusion, diversity, and a warm feeling of belonging at AMP.
- We're your allies in the search for the perfect fit - when you apply, let us know how we can support you to put your best self forward during our selection process.
- We're also committed to enhancing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, so we enthusiastically encourage candidates from these backgrounds to apply and explore our Reconciliation Plan on our website.
