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About the Role
This role offers an opportunity to work across complex investment structures, life insurance, and ASX reporting, rotating across various investment portfolios and building an understanding of insurance products and annuity business accounting.
Responsibilities
- End-to-end statutory financial statement preparation
- Support monthly and quarterly reporting
- Prepare half-year statutory accounts
- Deliver Challenger Life Company's financial statements and disclosures for Challenger Limited's ASX reporting
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations and investigation of movements
- Consolidation entries and issue resolution for assigned groups
- P&L and Balance Sheet analysis, including half-year and year-end reporting
- Work closely with auditors, providing clear evidence for balances
- Review processes to improve efficiency and strengthen controls
- Provide coaching and practical support to other team members
- Liaise with the Tax team on compliance matters
- Take ownership of team issues, investigating root causes and recommending solutions
- Gain direct exposure to front office and work with portfolio managers
Requirements
- CA or CPA qualified, or equivalent qualification
- At least two years of post-qualification experience
- Hands-on experience preparing statutory financial statements from end to end
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Confident using Excel with large volumes of data
- Interest in understanding how systems integrate with the general ledger
- Exposure to Australian income tax and GST requirements
- Understanding of regulated environments (APRA or ASIC)
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or another complex corporate environment is highly regarded
- Strong financial control and statutory reporting experience
- Knowledge of financial instruments (derivatives, fixed income, equities) is a bonus
Skills
- Financial control
- Statutory reporting
- ASX reporting
- Investment accounting
- Insurance accounting
- Excel
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days in the office, 2 from home
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- CA or CPA qualified
- Equivalent qualification
Benefits
- Competitive Discretionary bonus scheme
- Employee share plan
- Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents
- Challenger Day – one extra day off every year
- Subsidised on-site café
- Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leaves)
- Extra superannuation contributions
- Access to Fitness Passport
About the Company
- Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128 billion in assets.
- We are committed to providing 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.
- Working at Challenger means being part of a connected team that enjoys what they do.
- We’re small enough to move quickly, and big enough to make meaningful change.
- We support your growth and development, offer flexibility, and value the unique contributions people bring.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.