Senior Fund / Tax Accountant, Wealth & Capital Markets

• Outstanding role with career progression – learn about all investment products
• Permanent opportunity based in our Melbourne CBD office
• Real Wellbeing starts here

What makes us, us

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company, delivering health, wealth and care services to more than 700,000 Australians. Today, while we’ve grown to a company of nearly 7000 employees, our focus remains the same as it was 180 years ago — to deliver Real Wellbeing for our customers, members and the community.

We support your Real Wellbeing so you can better support our members’ and customers’ wellbeing journey

There are four key attributes that set us apart:

• Good people: We strive to set ourselves apart through the capability, warmth and expertise of our people.
• Wellbeing experts: Our breadth of capability enables us to provide smart solutions and services across all domains of wellbeing.
• Long-term commitment: As a member-owned company, we’ve been focusing on long-term outcomes and single-minded dedication to our members and customers since 1840.
• Driving positive impact: Everything we do is focused on making a positive difference at a personal, community and societal level.

These pillars are infused with our values of bold, warm and honest

Your opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a high calibre, experienced individual to join Australian Unity’s Wealth & Capital Markets platform. Wealth & Capital Markets comprises the Advice, Investments, Life & Super, Property, and Trustees business units. The strategic purpose of the platform is to link the organisation’s valuable efforts in helping Australians secure their financial wellbeing with capital and social infrastructure needs of the communities.

In joining as the Senior Fund/Tax Accountant, you will  have co responsibility of overseeing and  review of fund accounting functions which include daily unit pricing, distribution calculations, statutory reporting [ where relevant], maintenance of the general ledger, tax calculations, BAS calculations and lodgements across all type of investment products within the Wealth & Capital Markets platform.

This role also has a key tax focus in ensuring the product tax calculations are correct not only for the product per se, but also for group tax interrelationships. You will play a key role in managing internal and external stakeholders and a key contact for audit and tax queries. Success in this role will be aligned to your ability to develop a deep understanding of the varied investment products.

About you

We are searching for a professional who will join us in striving to live our values of bold, warm and honest in everything we do. By living out these values, we can show up as Real Life Changers for our members, customers, colleagues, and the wider community.

From a technical perspective, you will hold well-developed accounting, financial and analytical skills, and sound product understanding of the funds management industry. Additionally, you will bring to the role:

• CPA / Chartered qualification or working towards completion.
• Finance / Commerce / Accounting degree coupled with a minimum two years of industry specific experience.
• Previous experience in end to end accounting and unit pricing for managed investment schemes.

Your experience will be strengthened by the exceptional interpersonal and communication skills you have developed and the genuine passion for excellence applied to your work.

For a discussion in confidence about this opportunity, please contact Cam Larkin, Talent Acquisition Lead, 03 8682 6138. www.australianunity.com.au/careers

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including police checks, reference checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates; however, will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the job.

Recruitment Agencies

Please be advised that Australian Unity does not accept unsolicited resumes from Recruitment Agencies. Australian Unity will not recognise an entitlement to an introduction or placement fee unless the Agency has been briefed by a member of the Talent Acquisition team on a specific position for which we have requested candidates for.