Assistant Accountant

Sedgwick; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangement

Sedgwick Australia University – access

Career pathways

Job summary

Sedgwick is seeking an Assistant Accountant in Sydney to support month-end close, P&L analysis, and financial controls within the ANZ region. You will work under a Senior Accountant, contributing to journals, reconciliations, and timely reporting in a collaborative team.

Ideal candidates have CPA/CA progression, solid Excel skills, and experience in month-end processing and intercompany accounting, with a focus on accuracy and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• CPA/CA qualification or progression.
• Practical accounting experience through an assistant accountant position.
• Exposure to financial control responsibilities, including month-end close and intercompany accounting.
• Experience supporting detailed P&L and balance sheet reviews.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly P&L analysis and investigate variances to ensure data accuracy.
• Assist with month-end, quarter-end and year-end journals and intercompany transactions.
• Prepare and post journals for prepayments, accruals, WIP, contractor costs.
• Provide timely financial reports and dashboards (P&L, DSO, KPI metrics).
• Conduct balance sheet reconciliations and resolve unreconciled items.
• Support external and internal audits and contribute to timely financial statements.

Skills

Intermediate Excel

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Education

CPA/CA qualified or progressing

Tools

SAP data integrity

Job description

Join our Financial Control team as an Assistant Accountant, where you'll gain hands-on exposure to month-end reporting, compliance, financial controls, and process improvement initiatives. Reporting to a supportive Senior Accountant, this is a great opportunity to build your technical expertise, broaden your commercial finance experience, and make a meaningful contribution within a collaborative team environment.

What are my accountabilities

Support monthly detailed P&L analysis by investigating significant variances, resolving anomalies, and ensuring data accuracy. Collaborate on improving GL postings to enhance the reliability and integrity of financial reporting.

Support month‑end, quarter-end and year-end processing, including the preparation and posting of journals for prepayments, accruals, WIP, contractor costs, and intercompany transactions, under guidance from senior team members. prepare and post key journals in line with accounting standards and internal controls.

Assist in timely financial reports delivery and dashboards (P&L, DSO, KPI metrics) to support decision-making.

Perform balance sheet reconciliations and reviews to ensure accuracy and completeness, proactively investigating and resolving unreconciled or unusual items, and escalating discrepancies to senior finance team members while continuously developing strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Support both the external audit process and internal audit process and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely financial statements.

Travel, Expenses & Concur Management (AU & NZ)

Administer corporate travel and expense processes, including Concur support, user access, and reconciliation oversight to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely reporting, and reviewing and approving corporate traveler invoices.

Projects, Change & Continuous Improvement

Support office moves, system implementations, and process improvements, contributing to efficiencies and ad hoc business initiatives.

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

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

Financial Operations & Vendor Management

Support end-to-end financial operations across ANZ, including Accounts Payable, procurement, vendor management, and spend control, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and effective reporting.

Workplace Operations & Administration

Assist in managing facilities, real estate, and office operations, including vendor coordination, utilities, onboarding/offboarding, and compliance requirements to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.

Executive Support & Business Initiatives

Provide support to the Executive Team on operational activities, projects, and compliance, contributing to office initiatives, system improvements, and continuous process enhancement across ANZ.

Fleet Management

Coordinate company vehicle fleet operations, including managing quotations, agreements, usage tracking, and business requirements, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, and reviewing and approving fleet-related invoices.

Accounts Payable (AU & NZ)

Support financial operations across ANZ, including AP processing, SAP data integrity, cost centre allocations. Assist with budgeting, and coordination with the Malaysia Hub and outsourced providers.

About you:

• CPA/CA qualified or currently progressing
• Practical accounting experience through an assistant accountant position, preferably in a commercial setting
• Exposure to financial control responsibilities, including month-end close and intercompany accounting
• Practical experience in month‑end processing, supported by a sound understanding of accounting principles
• Experience supporting detailed P&L and balance sheet reviews, with a high level of attention to detail
• Intermediate Excel skills (Power Query Preferred)
• Basic understanding of statutory accounting and tax compliance, with the ability to support related activities and learn under guidance.
• Experience across month-end, quarter-end, and annual reporting cycles
• High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Capability to investigate routine financial anomalies and assist in resolving them, with support from senior colleagues when required
• Strong communication skills to coordinate effectively with business units and shared services
• Ability to support the maintenance and documentation of financial controls, with an interest in contributing to continuous improvement.

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