Financial Accountant - Assets

Blacktown City Council; Sydney, Blacktown; On-site; AUD 112,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flextime

Superannuation 12%

Training & development

Wellbeing programs

Fitness Passport

Social clubs

Job summary

Blacktown City Council is seeking a Financial Accountant – Assets in Sydney, NSW. The role ensures accurate asset records, codes costs correctly for capital projects, and supports audit readiness.

You will collaborate with engineering and asset-management teams to record additions, disposals, and revaluations, and contribute to depreciation calculations and regulatory disclosures. The position offers a secure permanent full-time contract, a 35-hour week, flextime access, and strong

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in asset accounting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate accounting of capital projects from work-in-progress to completion.
• Maintain asset master data and perform month-end journals.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assist year-end financial statements.
• Support internal and external audits with accurate information and documentation.
• Record asset additions, disposals, transfers and revaluations with engineering and asset teams.

Skills

Asset accounting

Education

Accounting degree or related field

Job description

Lead with purpose. Shape progress for a growing city.

Accurate financial management helps Council deliver the services and infrastructure our community relies on every day. As Financial Accountant - Assets, you ensure Council’s asset records are accurate, compliant and audit-ready, supporting reliable financial reporting and long-term planning.

You coordinate the accounting of capital projects from work-in-progress through to completion, ensuring costs are correctly coded, projects are commissioned on time and assets are transferred into the fixed asset register. You create and maintain asset master data, prepare month-end journals and balance sheet reconciliations, and support the preparation of year-end financial statements to ensure compliance with statutory reporting requirements. You also contribute to internal and external audit activities by providing accurate financial information, analysis, and supporting documentation to ensure ongoing audit readiness.

You work closely with engineering, project and asset management teams to record asset additions, disposals, transfers and revaluations. You support depreciation calculations, component accounting for infrastructure assets such as roads, bridges and stormwater networks, and help ensure Council’s asset valuations and disclosures align with accounting standards and NSW Office of Local Government requirements.

This role suits a collaborative and analytical finance professional with a degree in Accounting or a related field and demonstrated experience in asset accounting, ideally within a large organisation. In return, you gain meaningful work, employment stability, flexible working arrangements and opportunities to continue developing your career.

At Blacktown City Council, good people make great teams, and great teams build great cities. Here, you will find the stability and support to keep growing, along with:

• a secure, permanent, full-time role with one of Australia's largest councils
• an entry level salary commencing at $2,257.27 per week
• a 35-hour working week
• access to Council's flextime arrangement
• 12% superannuation and competitive leave entitlements
• ongoing training and development support
• access to Fitness Passport, social clubs and wellbeing programs.

Our commitment to safety

Blacktown City Council is committed to safety. We have introduced alcohol and other drug testing at the pre-employment phase, and via a series of random and cause testing.

We are a child safe organisation that supports and promotes the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of children.

Closing date: Sunday 20 September 2026, 11.59 pm

Contact officer: Farrukh Khan on 9839 6485

Internal ref: BCC2136