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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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To investigate, quantify and report financial losses relating to various aspects of insurance claims including but not limited to: Business Interruption Loss, Stock/Inventory Loss and Additional Expenses. 

The Forensic Accounting Services division of Sedgwick are our experts in measuring economic loss. They work extensively with both our loss adjusting colleagues and external parties, such as lawyers, to measure the value of commercial claims. Their work is varied and diverse and includes exposure to claims across a diverse range of industries such as retail, hospitality, mining and logistics.  

Examples of their work includes: 

Investigating and quantifying claims for business interruption (loss of profit) 

Measuring and valuing large stock losses 

Investigating and quantifying employee fraud and cybercrime

Measuring losses stemming from events such product recalls and third party recoveries 

Preparing expert witness reports for matters in dispute, including personal injury 
  

The FAS team in Australia currently comprises over 30 forensic accountants and due to our continuing growth is seeking to add additional forensic accountants across our team in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. 
  

This is an entry-level role into forensic accounting and would involve extensive training and mentoring from members of our senior team. It would suit a candidate who has 2-3 years’ experience in accounting roles within audit, insolvency, commerce or analytics and is ready to apply these skills to the specialist field of forensic accounting. 
  

Responsibilities: 

Delivering forensic accounting and investigation services to Sedgwick’s clients and their legal representatives 

Assisting with complex financial matters in a team engaged to provide advice and reports of varying types 

Working on a portfolio of varied assignments across the Forensic Accounting business (as outlined above) 

About you: 

Degree qualified and in the process of obtaining a CA or CPA 

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel 

Ability to build financial models in Excel 

Highly developed interpersonal and both written and verbal communication skills 

Would describe themselves as “financially curious”: a critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Demonstrated business acumen 

A desire to contribute to business development 

Naturally enthusiastic and collaborative in the team 

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.