Senior Accountant

7 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Resolution Life Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year
About Resolution Life Resolution Life Australasia is one of the leading life insurers in Australia and New Zealand, with ~ 1 million customers with superannuation, investments and life insurance policies, managing approximately A$30 billion in assets and have 1,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives, foster an inclusive, collaborative and flexible working environment, where everyone can thrive. We are a fully enterprise agile organisation, and will support your professional growth and reward your contribution.
The Opportunity We're looking for a highly skilled and proactive Senior Accountant - Statutory Reporting to perform a lead role in the preparation of our 2025 financial statements. This role is pivotal in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of statutory reporting, including proforma and final statements, acquisition-related disclosures, and updates aligned with AASB 17. You'll also play a key role in preparing Board materials and coordinating governance activities across finance and actuarial teams.
In this role, you'll contribute to the end-to-end process of financial statement preparation, support external audit queries, and contribute to the development of accounting position papers. Your ability to communicate clearly, manage competing priorities, and collaborate across teams will be essential in delivering high-quality outcomes within tight deadlines. You'll also support strategic transformation initiatives by identifying and mitigating reporting impacts.
To be successful, you'll bring appropriate accounting qualifications and experience in life insurance financial statements - ideally within the professional services or financial services sector. Strong project coordination skills, a solutions-focused mindset, and the ability to thrive in an agile environment are key. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic and collaborative setting, we'd love to hear from you.
How will you make an impact? Preparation of proforma and final financial statements:
  • Ensure the proforma financial statements are prepared for audit review including new and revised disclosures and supporting materials.
  • Updating Narrative Reporting with changes as required.
  • Work with other team members to ensure the timely production of year-end financial statements to a high-quality standard.
  • Assist external auditors with resolution of queries.
Preparation of Board materials:
  • Assist in the preparation of accounting related board papers to explain financial statement disclosures and support board approvals.
  • Coordination of other team members inputs to key accounting papers to ensure timely preparation.
  • Preparation of papers to support board approvals.
  • Coordination of the review process ensuring version control for updates.
Coordination of financial reporting governance activities:
  • Provide project management assistance to ensure board material are prepared, reviewed and delivered within the required time frames.
  • Collaborate with other Finance & Actuarial team members to ensure key reporting governance activities are performed as.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication:
  • Act as a liaison between finance, actuarial, and other business units to ensure collaboration and effective communication of transformation and process improvement efforts.
  • Work with leaders and squads to identify and validate impacts resulting from strategic change within F&A COE's or driven by external initiatives and put in place strategies to mitigate.
About you To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following:
  • Appropriate accounting qualifications
  • Preparation and / or audit of life insurance financial statements
  • Life Insurance, banking and financial services industry experience essential
  • Preparation of accounting position papers
  • Project management / coordination while working in small to midsize teams
  • Ability to work in an agile environment but can manage multiple activities with different competing requirements
  • Problem solving - ability to assimilate and analyse complex information from disparate sources and provide sound, well-reasoned outputs
  • Outcomes driven – must be focussed on meeting deadlines, proactive – able to drive the outcomes with different stakeholder's, is collaborative and delivers to agreed outcomes
  • Communicative – ability to communicate concisely, in a clear and effective way, both verbally and in writing throughout all levels of the organisation
  • Strong relationship management skills – ability to manage stakeholders and competing priorities
  • Flexibility – willingness to focus on additional initiatives as they arise

Why Join Us? At Resolution Life Australasia, we provide a flexible work environment and access to a range of employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally including:
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Career pathways, including local and global mobility opportunities
  • Leading Learning Platforms and support in professional development
  • Health and Wellbeing Programs
Accessibility and Checks
Before commencing employment in this role, you will need to provide two references, full working rights and complete police and credit checks through an online provider. As an equal opportunity employer strongly committed to working in a diverse and inclusive workforce you will be provided with any support or accessibility requirements throughout your interview process. Please feel free to contact our Talent Team directly at [email protected] Privacy Policy Please refer to our Privacy Policy to learn about how we use the information you give us, alternatively you can view the same information by navigating to the page

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