Senior Financial Accountant

Prepare financial reporting, support taxation requirements and fixed asset registers, and optimise MySAP systems.

• Prepare impactful reports, provide expert advice and support key tax and asset functions
• Work with Hydro Tasmania, a leader in renewable energy and sustainability.
• Grow in a technical accounting role with real impact and team collaboration.

Salary range $113,448 – $131,517 plus super

With the help of over 30,000 people over 100 years, we have built, maintained, and refurbished hydropower infrastructure across Tasmania. We're fuelling the future of energy with the power of the past, and we need skilled and reliable people to join us to deliver efficient and compliant financial accounting services.

We support applications from all members of our community for equitable access to our employment opportunities. We are open to discussing workplace flexibility in all our vacancies, to ensure we can attract the best candidates and accommodate individual needs, differences, disabilities and working arrangements, even in ways we have not thought of. Our merit-based recruitment practices are founded on building diversity by fostering an inclusive, flexible and equitable workplace. For more information about Hydro Tasmania please visit our website

About the role:

To put it simply, this position plays a key role in supporting Hydro Tasmania's financial accounting responsibilities through a range of engaging and vital tasks. This role gives the opportunity to be across standard accounting functions as well as assist with specific, impactful functions such as the maintenance of Hydro Tasmania's fixed asset registers and undertaking tax requirements and accounting advice as directed. Within this role, along with your financial accounting experience, you will utilise your strong communication and collaboration abilities to deliver these key responsibilities and enhance financial processes and reporting efficiency.

As a Senior Financial Accountant at Hydro Tasmania, you will…

✓ Produce high quality reports and analyses and present key financial information and insights to a variety of stakeholders

✓ Work collaboratively and build strong working relationships within own team as well as across the organisation

✓ Prepare external financial reports including (but not limited to) annual financial statements, treasury reports and special/ad hoc reports (such as ABS returns)

✓ Provide expert financial advice across the business including responding to queries, communicating implications of changes in accounting standards and in the development and maintenance of corporate accounting processes and systems

More information can be found on the attached Position Description:  PD - FIN - Senior Financial Accountant - September

Who are you?

We're seeking someone with a strong foundation in financial accounting, ideally with exposure to tax and fixed asset management. Your experience will also include your:

• Demonstrated experience in financial accounting – even if you are earlier in your career but still have specialised experience in this area as well as demonstrate a genuine interest in it, we want to hear from you
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and collaboration skills
• Capability to thrive in a team environment and value sharing knowledge
• Eagerness to contribute and be a part of a supportive and engaged group

Even if you don't meet these criteria 100%, we still want to hear from you

Haven't convinced you yet?

In addition to a competitive remuneration package, this role offers the unique opportunity to contribute to Australia's renewable energy transition and work in a highly collaborative and supportive team within a financial accounting function We offer a range of employee perks and often have something for everyone, this ranges from health and wellbeing services to electricity discounts.

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Let's get applying

Attach your resume and a cover letter outlining what skills and experience you can bring to this role before 9am Monday 3rd November 2025. Help us get to know you in your cover letter by telling us who you are as a candidate and how your skills and experience align with the position Does financial accounting excite you? Have you got an accounting superpower? Are you an expert with key tax and asset functions? We'd love to know more about what you love about financial accounting

We will be running an agile recruitment process and will engage with suitable candidates as soon we have reviewed their applications.

Recruitment agencies: we respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.