Senior Associate Accounting Operations
NAB
Date: 1 day ago
City: Melbourne, Victoria
Contract type: Full time

As a Senior Associate within Accounting Operations, you will be responsible for the application and delivery of operational finance expertise to business units to ensure results accurately reflect financial performance and to provide operational process design and change implementation across a wide cross section of stakeholders.
As a Senior Associate you will join the Accounting Operations team that’s focused on winning together.
In this Senior Associate role, you will
We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of equity and respect – where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their authentic selves. In partnership with our multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we continue to foster an inclusive environment, where all NAB colleagues’ unique backgrounds and identities are understood, respected and celebrated.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can work your way.
For details on the recruitment process, and accessibility, please visit https://www.nab.com.au/about-us/careers/apply-for-job. To discuss adjustment requirements, please contact the NAB Careers team, via [email protected] (please reference job number) or visit our Careers page through the link above for other contact options.
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If you think this role is the right fit for you, we would love to hear from you. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert. Unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
- Manage and utilise outputs from Group Finance teams in an efficient manner to deliver month end and year end close.
- Drive opportunities for simplification and modernisation.
- Be part of a highly engaged team committed to diversity and flexibility.
As a Senior Associate you will join the Accounting Operations team that’s focused on winning together.
In this Senior Associate role, you will
- Manage the timely delivery of financial and management accounting activities including journal reviews, month end close, reconciliation reviews, executing half year and year end statutory reporting requirements.
- Effectively manage any issues and/or escalations pertaining to those activities through to resolution.
- Review controls to ensure they are effective and operated in line with policy requirements.
- Continual review of processes, outputs and controls to progress the function toward best practice operational excellence.
- Actively participate & take an active role in leading Finance Strategy initiatives.
- Understand the upstream and downstream impacts and implications for the process, ensuring early line of sight of upstream issues and timely communication of impacts to downstream stakeholders.
- Support the junior team members in coaching and development.
- Strong understanding of financial and management accounting standards, polices, practises and processes as they apply to banking transactions.
- Ability to transform complex financial and non-financial data into meaningful business insights.
- Knowledge and experience in working with accounting systems such as SAP or HFM preferred but not essential.
- Strong process improvement capability in both identification and successful implementation of process re-engineering initiatives.
- Actively challenge the status quo, embrace new tools and technologies and apply them to finance processes.
- Experience in Financial/Management Accounting or Reconciliations is a pre-requisite.
- CA or CPA Graduate qualification (Financial or Commercial preferred).
We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of equity and respect – where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their authentic selves. In partnership with our multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we continue to foster an inclusive environment, where all NAB colleagues’ unique backgrounds and identities are understood, respected and celebrated.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can work your way.
For details on the recruitment process, and accessibility, please visit https://www.nab.com.au/about-us/careers/apply-for-job. To discuss adjustment requirements, please contact the NAB Careers team, via [email protected] (please reference job number) or visit our Careers page through the link above for other contact options.
Join NAB
If you think this role is the right fit for you, we would love to hear from you. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert. Unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
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