Tax Accountant

• Full-time | Permanent | Hybrid working arrangement | Adelaide CBD location

Ready to make an impact at one of South Australia's most trusted organisations? Join our Finance team and help drive tax compliance, accuracy, and efficiency across the RAA Group.

As a Tax Accountant, you'll play a vital role in supporting our Finance Team to deliver timely and accurate tax reporting and lodgement obligations, while identifying tax risks and opportunities. You'll work directly with the Tax Manager to provide technical tax advice, drive process improvements, and ensure strong governance under the RAA Group Tax Governance Framework.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting in the preparation of Group income tax returns, tax effect calculations, reconciliations, and journal entries.
• Preparing or reviewing monthly Business Activity Statements (BAS) and supporting GST testing and resolution of issues.
• Co-managing the annual Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) process, including preparation of working papers and liaising with business units.
• Preparing periodic payroll tax returns and ensuring payroll tax compliance across the Group.
• Supporting payroll with Single Touch Payroll compliance and ensuring wage codes align with legislative changes.
• Assisting with tax governance reviews, ATO audits, and continuous improvement of tax processes and controls.
• Supporting broader finance projects and providing technical advice across FBT, GST, and fixed assets when required.

About You:

You are a detail-oriented and analytical accounting professional who thrives on precision and process improvement. You're highly self-motivated, able to work independently, and passionate about ensuring tax integrity and compliance. You bring strong technical tax knowledge and the ability to communicate complex information clearly and confidently. You'll also bring:

• A tertiary qualification in Accounting (mandatory)
• CPA/CA qualification completed or currently in progress.
• 3–4 years' experience in a similar tax accounting role.
• Strong knowledge of Income Tax, FBT, and GST.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong analytical capability.
• Familiarity with tax software platforms such as CCH Integrator or FBTOneSource is highly regarded.
• Previous experience in a Big 4 or large corporate tax environment (preferred).

About us:

We're proud to be one of South Australia's most iconic brands, trusted by members for more than 120 years. SA born-and-bred, RAA might be best known for our road service and insurance products, but we're excited to be continuously diversifying to better help our members and community.

Our goal? To make life better for South Australians. That's why we're proud to offer a range of services to our 820,000+ members, including travel, energy, solar and battery, electric vehicle charging, our RAA Rewards program and more. With motoring still a priority, we're just as passionate as we were in 1903 about road safety, advocating for a safer SA into the future.

We're also one of the state's largest employers, with more than 1100 employees working across our local sites at Mile End, RAA Place (CBD) and Adelaide Airport and our many retail and travel shops. With new office spaces in the city and city fringe in the works, and a buzzing people-first culture, we're proud to be the State's #1 Employer Brand.

Benefits:

We love our people at RAA and believe our employees should be rewarded for being a part of the RAA family. Some of our employee benefits include:

• Free RAA premium road service
• Access to our RAA Rewards Program
• Generous discounts on all RAA products
• Flexible work arrangements
• Ongoing Training & Development opportunities and a Study Support Program
• Wellbeing facilities and Corporate Health Insurance Plan

How to apply:

To be part of something bigger and work for a passionate South Australian organisation with members at heart click 'Apply' to submit your application by 9.00am Monday 24th November.

You'll need to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in Australia and we'll also need you to undertake a police check before you can work with us at RAA.

We are committed to building a workplace that's diverse and inclusive, where employees are embraced for their unique qualities and valued for their contributions. We believe a diverse and inclusive workplace brings out the best in everyone and helps us to give our members better service. That's why we encourage applications from everyone, including people living with disability, job seekers of all ages, First Nations Peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.