MARS Recruitment is partnering with a leading Australian financial services organisation to recruit a Financial Accountant into its high-performing Financial Control team.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a top-tier Australian financial services brand, offering broad exposure to financial control, statutory reporting, regulatory reporting and audit within a complex and highly regulated environment. Working alongside experienced finance leaders, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality financial reporting while developing your technical accounting and financial control expertise.

As part of the Financial Control team, you'll support the delivery of financial control across a portfolio of legal entities within a large and complex financial services business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the month-end close process and financial control activities across multiple legal entities.
• Prepare statutory financial statements and support regulatory reporting requirements.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations, P&L analysis and investigate financial variances.
• Prepare and support AFSL financial monitoring reports and other regulatory reporting requirements.
• Coordinate external audit requests and assist with the year-end audit process.
• Provide technical accounting support and contribute to strengthening the financial control framework.
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance to ensure accurate financial reporting and strong governance.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial controls, reporting processes and operational efficiencies.

Key Requirements:

• CA qualified (or nearing completion) with full Australian working rights.
• Big 4 Senior Associate or Assistant Manager level, looking to make their first move into commerce.
• Demonstrated experience auditing financial services clients, ideally across banking, wealth management, asset management or lending.
• Strong understanding of IFRS/AASB, financial reporting and financial control.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships across the business.