Manager Financial Accounting

Overview

About The Role

This position is a role within the Group's financial control team and responsible for ensuring the Bank's financial reporting requirements are met and systems and controls are continually developed enabling timely, efficient and accurate reporting to Executive Management. The role will primarily focus on the monthly and annual financial accounting for the Group and subsidiaries combined with the day-to-day activities of the finance function. You will provide oversight and mentoring to Group Financial Accountants, while assisting other Senior Financial Accountants and Group Finance Managers in ensuring the Bank meets its management and statutory reporting deadlines. Furthermore, you will be required to support the Group Financial Control manager in the consolidation and standardisation of financial control activities to drive efficiency and enhanced controls, providing a platform to transition to the target future state following the broader Finance Transformation.

Experience

About you

Responsibilities

• Oversee monthly and annual financial accounting for the Group and subsidiaries, aligning with reporting deadlines.
• Provide oversight and mentoring to Group Financial Accountants; support Senior Financial Accountants and Group Finance Managers.
• Assist in consolidation and standardisation of financial control activities to drive efficiency and enhanced controls.
• Support the Group Financial Control manager during the Finance Transformation and transition to the target future state.

Qualifications

• CPA / CA / ICAA qualified (or international equivalent) experience
• Multiple years of experience as a manager in accounting, ideally within a financial control function
• Proven technical accounting skills and experience implementing new accounting standards
• Proven people leadership skills

Knowledge & Competencies

• Ability to work directly with other Financial Accounting staff
• Consistent ability to meet deadlines with limited supervision from management
• Understanding of control frameworks

About Us

BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose – to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees. Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist) each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal – to build social capital through banking. That's creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities. BOQ Group's inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve. Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.

Benefits

Our Benefits

• Flexible working arrangement - Balance your work and personal life with ease.
• Discounted financial products - Enjoy exclusive rates on our financial services across the Group.
• Salary sacrificing options - Maximise your take-home pay with our salary packaging options.
• Paid parental leave with no minimum requirements
• Purchase additional annual leave
• Discounted private health insurance plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Access to employee network groups (First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers, accessibility)
• Pride in Diversity membership and involvement in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Join us and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and community.

How To Apply

To apply for this role at BOQ Group, follow the links or apply via our Careers Page. BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply. We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, background screening is a condition of employment to ensure compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act obligations. Checks may include identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, and bankruptcy checks.

Please no agency applications.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: General Business, Finance, and Accounting/Auditing
• Industries: Banking, Financial Services, and Accounting

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Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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