Associate Accounting Operations

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Pay Level**: Group 2
**Talent Acquisition Contact**: Jana Mu
**View Role purpose statement**
- **Outstanding opportunity to build and progress your career**:

- **Use your expertise to drive positive outcomes for our customers**:

- **Make your impact in a highly engaged team**

**It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.**

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

We currently have two opportunities for Associates to join our Accounting Operations team. In this role you will partner directly with the Divisional and Group Finance teams to deliver accurate management and financial accounting outputs and to identify opportunities to optimise and improve processes.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Ensure the accurate and timely delivery of financial and management accounting activities including journal preparation, month end close, reconciliations, half year and year end statutory reporting requirements.
- Raise any issues and/or escalations pertaining to those activities.
- Ensure controls are effective and operated in line with policy requirements.
- Continual assessment of processes, outputs, and controls to progress the function toward best practice operational excellence.
- Actively participate in Finance Strategy initiatives.

**Your Skills and Experience**
- Experience in Financial/Management Accounting or Reconciliations is a pre-requisite.
- Strong analytical skills - ability to transform complex financial and non-financial data into meaningful business insights.
- Strong process improvement capability in both identification and successful implementation of process re-engineering initiatives.
- Risk Management - Advocate and drive change whilst maintaining effective controls and governance.
- Experience in working with accounting systems including SAP, HFM and Blackline is desirable.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to explain complex concepts and present key insights to a broad audience.
- Financial Services industry experience preferred but not essential.
- Undergraduate qualification within Finance/Accounting along with CA or CPA preferred.

By joining NAB, you are committing to putting our customers’ needs first every time. You will be ambitious for growth; always curious and learning from colleagues. You will speak honestly, always valuing the time and opinion of others. You will own your work, doing what’s right, even when it’s hard.

**A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.**

At NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

**More focus on you**

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities.

**Join NAB**

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

**Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.