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By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant opportunity reporting into the Senior Accountant.This is a hands-on role within the Financial Control team, offering scope to lead month-end close, compliance, and reporting processes, while influencing financial outcomes and driving continuous improvement.

We are looking for a candidate with solid accounting experience, ideally from a commercial or corporate finance environment, who is comfortable taking ownership of core financial control responsibilities. This role is well suited to an experienced accountant seeking impact, autonomy, and exposure across a broad financial control remit in a collaborative environment.

What are my accountabilities?

Lead monthly Balance Sheet reviews and detailed P&L analysis, resolving anomalies and ensuring accuracy

Perform hands-on month-end processing, including journals for prepayments, accruals, WIP, contractor costs and intercompany transactions

Prepare and post key journals in line with accounting standards and internal controls

Deliver timely financial reports and dashboards (P&L, DSO, KPI metrics) to support decision-making

Perform thorough balance sheet reconciliations and reviews with strong analytical judgement and attention to detail

Assist in quarter-end and year-end close, support the external audit process, and assist in the preparation of accurate and timely financial statements

Assist with tax obligations, including GST, FBT and income tax returns, while keeping up to date with relevant legislation

Manage billing reconciliations across CMS, Darwin, Salesforce and SAP systems

Manage ABS surveys on a quarterly basis, ensuring accurate and complete financial data is provided

Collaborate with shared services to ensure accurate and efficient month-end close and reporting

About you:

CPA/CA qualified or currently progressing

Solid accounting experience, ideally within a commercial or corporate finance environment

Strong exposure to financial control responsibilities, including month-end close and intercompany accounting

Hands-on experience with month-end processing and a strong understanding of accounting principles

Proven ability to perform detailed P&L and balance sheet reviews with strong attention to detail

Advanced Excel skills (Power Query essential)

Strong understanding of statutory accounting and tax compliance

Experience across month-end, quarter-end, and annual reporting cycles

High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to independently investigate and resolve financial anomalies

Strong communication skills to coordinate effectively with business units and shared services

Proven ability to maintain, document, and improve financial controls

Caring Culture

It’s at the heart of everything we do, and we show we care by living our core values: Empathy, Accountability, Inclusion, Collaboration, and Growth. By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

Sedgwick is an equal opportunity employer, recognized by the Diversity Council of Australia. We're committed to fair and accessible recruitment. If you need special accommodations, please let us know when applying.

If you are successful in joining our team, you will be required to complete reference checks, mandatory background checks, including a police check and work rights.

Why Sedgwick?

Sedgwick is the global leader in claims administration, loss adjusting, benefits administration, and product recall. We are committed to providing excellent service to our clients and are passionate about helping them through difficult times.

Every day, our colleagues are working to make the world better. They’re helping people recover after an injury or illness. They’re assisting with damage from a natural disaster. They’re even giving back to others in their spare time, championing over 500 charities in communities around the world, and counting.

Whether you’re in loss adjusting, claims, customer service, nursing, engineering, IT or another specialty, there’s a place for you here to be a force for good.

Some of the Benefits of working with us are:

Hybrid working arrangement. #LI-Hybrid

Sedgwick Australia University – access to more than 15,000 courses on demand and opportunities to continue formal education

+0.5% on top of Superannuation Guarantee

Domestic and International Career Pathways

Sedgwick Colleague Resource Groups – international, cross-functional, colleague-led groups aimed at fostering an inclusive workplace

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.