Financial Accountant

Job no: 614138
Work type: Accountant
Location: Sydney

This role is suitable for a graduate with a succession plan.

Categories: Financial Accounting, AMP Life

AMP Life is proudly owned by the Resolution Life Group, a global life insurance group focusing on the acquisition and management of in-force life insurance policies.

AMP Life is an in-force specialist life insurer in Australia and New Zealand, providing existing customers with life insurance, super and investments and with assets of $29 billion and 1.2 million customers.

To deliver on our promise of being a customer-obsessed, data-driven business, we need to be more nimble, efficient, collaborative, and iterative. With the global experience and scale of Resolution Life, combined with the local knowledge and experience we have in the Australian and New Zealand markets, we've learnt what matters most to our customers.

We are committed to providing AMP Life customers with competitive premiums, quality investment management, great customer service and efficient claims management. To support this, Resolution Life globally made the exciting decision to move to an Enterprise Agile way of working.

Background:
To deliver on our promise of being a customer-obsessed, data-driven business, we need to be more nimble, efficient, collaborative, and iterative. With the global experience and scale of Resolution Life, combined with the local knowledge and experience we have in the Australian and New Zealand markets, we've learnt what matters most to our customers. That's why we are committed to providing AMP Life customers with competitive premiums, quality investment management, great customer service and efficient claims management. To support this, Resolution Life globally made the exciting decision to move to an Enterprise Agile way of working.

About the role:

To support the Life team in performing the accounting for Life AU entities, including:

• The provision of quality and timely information and reporting, safeguarding the financial assets of the Life AU business and meeting all regulatory and statutory financial reporting requirements
• Ensuring that financial risks are identified, managed and mitigated
• Contributing to best practice system and process design and operation to facilitate efficient use of data by downstream users (ie Actuarial, Tax and Management Reporting).
• Debits, credits, ledger and balance sheets.

Key Capabilities:

• General technical accounting skills and knowledge
• A good level of professional business acumen (written and oral) and communication skills
• Good organisational and management skills, including planning, budgeting, time management, coordination, implementation, problem solving and decision making skills
• Good relationship skills, including the ability to work with various internal and external partners to achieve business objectives

Qualification/s required:

• Tertiary qualification in Commerce - BCA / BBS (Com) or equivalent
• CA or CPA

We are ready to accept your application

Click Apply to submit your application. 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. We offer flexible work arrangements across a number of working patterns both office based with a solid COVID safe strategy and virtual.

Advertised: 08 Jan 2021 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 03 Feb 2021 AUS Eastern Daylight Time