Financial Reporting Specialist

Location: Brisbane

About the role: Join Aurizon – Australia's largest rail freight operator and an ASX100-listed company – in this newly created role at the intersection of financial reporting and sustainability.

The Financial Reporting Specialist – Sustainability role is a rare opportunity in Brisbane to contribute meaningfully within a large ASX-listed corporate environment. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Aurizon's compliance with the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS), including AASB S1 and AASB S2, for FY26 onward. This role will see you manage complex statutory financial reporting processes while embedding robust, high-quality sustainability reporting practices that meet investor, regulatory and community expectations.

You'll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across the company to ensure the integrity of financial and non-financial disclosures, drive audit readiness, and strengthen our reporting capability as part of Aurizon's broader decarbonisation and sustainability agenda.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the preparation of statutory financial and sustainability reports, ensuring compliance with ASRS, ASX, and accounting standards.
• Provide technical accounting and sustainability reporting advice on complex issues and transactions.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to collect, analyse, and verify sustainability data and climate-related disclosures.
• Support the integration of sustainability metrics into corporate reporting, aligning financial and Sustainability disclosures.
• Monitor and interpret new accounting and sustainability reporting requirements, assessing and communicating their impact on Aurizon's reporting.
• Develop and maintain policies, frameworks, and controls to ensure audit-ready, decision-useful disclosures.
• Partner with auditors and assurance providers to coordinate financial and sustainability audits.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of financial and sustainability reporting systems and processes.

About you

You're an experienced finance professional with strong technical accounting capability and a passion for sustainability reporting. You're motivated by the opportunity to shape how an ASX-listed company communicates its progress toward a more sustainable future.

You'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related discipline (mandatory)
• CPA or CA qualification (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years' experience in financial reporting, ideally with Big 4 or ASX-listed exposure
• Demonstrated experience applying AASB S1 and S2 and emerging sustainability reporting frameworks (preferred)
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to translate complex financial and sustainability data into clear, meaningful insights

What we offer you:

At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities. 

Some of our benefits include:

• Development and growth opportunities.
• Access to mentoring and development programs.
• Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
• Parental leave program and super booster.

About Aurizon.

Aurizon is Australia's largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets. 

Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.

At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.

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