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About the Role
This is a broad financial accounting and control role designed to build strong fundamentals through increasing responsibility across month-end close, reconciliations, reporting and audit. You’ll take ownership of defined deliverables, produce audit-ready support, and develop confidence explaining the drivers of the entities you are responsible for. Working closely with Senior Accountants and the Finance Manager, you’ll build a clear understanding of how entity-level accounting flows through to Group results and external reporting.
Responsibilities
- Support the accounting for Challenger corporate entities and SPVs, including accruals, prepayments, journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assist with intercompany processing and investigation of reconciling items.
- Ensure balances are accurate, complete and well supported.
- Investigate variances and clearly explain movements.
- Contribute to month-end close activities across the Group.
- Assist with inputs into consolidated Group reporting.
- Support preparation of statutory financial statements and ASX reporting disclosures.
- Prepare audit workpapers and respond to auditor queries with guidance from senior team members.
- Work with tools such as Workday, Workiva and Excel to support reporting and reconciliations.
- Assist with maintaining clean data, schedules and documentation.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls and accuracy, rather than relying on “how it’s always been done”.
- Maintain strong habits around accuracy, timeliness and self-review.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (CA, CPA or equivalent) with post qualification experience in financial control, commercial accounting or large-scale audit.
- Organised, curious and comfortable working through detail, while building confidence explaining your work.
- A working understanding of IFRS and core accounting principles.
- Experience preparing journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Exposure to multi-entity environments and intercompany accounting (or a strong desire to learn).
- Intermediate Excel skills (e.g. pivot tables, SUMIF/SUMIFS, XLOOKUP).
- Strong attention to detail and pride in producing accurate, well-supported work.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- A growth mindset - comfortable asking questions, learning from others and building mastery over time.
- Experience in financial services, mortgages or accounting for financial instruments (Desirable).
- Exposure to Workday, Workiva or similar finance systems (Desirable).
Skills
- IFRS
- Core accounting principles
- Journal preparation
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Intercompany accounting
- Excel (pivot tables, SUMIF/SUMIFS, XLOOKUP)
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Workday
- Workiva
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days WFH)
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Post qualification experience
Education Level
- CA
- CPA
- Equivalent
Benefits
- Competitive discretionary bonus scheme
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
- Challenger Day – one extra day off every year
- Additional support leave (fertility, gender affirmation)
- Extra superannuation contributions
- Employee share plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Subsidised on-site café
- Access to free onsite yoga, mindfulness and Pilates classes
- Fitness Passport
- Access to annual free flu shots & skin checks
About the Company
- Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $120 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2026).
- 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.
- At Challenger, we’re small enough to be agile, but big enough to accelerate bold ideas.
- We support your growth and development, offering flexibility and a culture that values your unique contributions.
- 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.