Assistant Accountant

Job title: Assistant Accountant

Location: Sydney/Hybrid

Duration: Permanent

Job type: Full-time

Avant is Australia's leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.

Avant Mutual is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join our Financial Control team and support our New Ventures organisation with their month-end and year-end requirements. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity based in our Sydney CBD office with a hybrid working arrangement.

The key responsibilities include:

• Prepare month-end journals, including accruals, elimination entries, and adjustments.
• Preparation of Balance Sheet reconciliations, following up variances to resolution.
• Prepare and process monthly commission workbooks, journals, and RCTIs.
• Reconcile third-party commissions and follow up outstanding items.
• Support the preparation and reconciliation process of the monthly GST returns for the Group.
• Support the preparation of statutory financial reporting and regulatory returns.
• Assist with valuation testing, bookings, and model updates.
• Provide reporting and analysis for management and Finance Business Partners.
• Support implementation and testing of new product processes and finance initiatives
• Assist the broader financial control team as and where required with other responsibilities.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Undergraduate degree with an accounting major.
• Working towards CA/CPA qualification.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Strong communication skills are essential and an ability to liaise with finance and non-finance professionals.
• A proactive and solutions driven mindset.
• Experience with D365 is advantageous but not essential.
• Experience in financial services is highly regarded but not essential.

Why work at Avant?

• At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.
• We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.
• Your development is our priority, and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.
• We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.
• We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

Avant now represents 90,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.

As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.

For further information please contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on

Equal Opportunity Employer

Avant supports doctors so they can serve Australia's diverse communities. Having diversity in our workforce brings valuable perspectives and strengthens our ability to support healthcare professionals.

We therefore welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and those with caring responsibilities.

Our inclusive workplace is somewhere everyone can succeed.

Ready to join us? If you're passionate about supporting Australia's healthcare professionals, we'd love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact us