Senior Financial Accountant

AIA Shared Services; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA New Zealand is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to deliver trusted, accurate, and forward‑looking financial reporting that informs strategic decision‑making. You’ll partner with the Manager, Financial Reporting and stakeholders across Finance and the wider business, providing leadership and assurance in a dynamic environment.

You’ll drive month‑end close, deliver analysis and insights, own statutory and group reporting, and lead automation initiatives to improve efficiency and quality.

Qualifications

• strong technical accounting expertise and the ability to interpret complex accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and reporting obligations.
• experience delivering external financial reporting, audit coordination, and financial analysis within a complex finance environment.
• ability to identify improvement opportunities and redesign processes that increase efficiency, quality, and future scalability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the month-end close process, delivering accurate financial results, reconciliations, and reporting outcomes on time.
• Deliver meaningful financial analysis and forward-looking insights that help leaders understand performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Own statutory, regulatory, and group reporting requirements, ensuring high-quality submissions that meet internal and external obligations.
• Drive process improvement initiatives, leveraging automation and AI-enabled tools to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reporting quality.
• Strengthen financial reporting controls by designing and continuously improving frameworks that support compliance, assurance, and risk management.
• Build trusted relationships across Finance, the wider business, auditors, regulators, and AIA Group stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes.

Skills

Technical accounting

Financial reporting

Audit coordination

Financial analysis

Process improvement

Critical thinking

Communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

SAP

BlackLine

Power BI

Power Query

AI-enabled finance tools

Job description

Your Role with Us

As a Senior Financial Accountant, you play a pivotal role in delivering trusted, accurate, and forward‑looking financial reporting that supports AIA New Zealand’s strategic decision‑making. Partnering closely with the Manager, Financial Reporting and stakeholders across Finance, the wider business, and AIA Group, you provide technical leadership, insight, and assurance in a dynamic environment. This role offers the opportunity to combine deep accounting expertise with innovation, helping shape how reporting processes evolve through automation and AI‑enabled solutions. You will influence key outcomes, strengthen controls, and contribute to continuous improvement while supporting AIA’s purpose of helping people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

Your Impact

Lead the month‑end close process, delivering accurate financial results, reconciliations, and reporting outcomes on time. Deliver meaningful financial analysis and forward‑looking insights that help leaders understand performance, risks, and opportunities. Own statutory, regulatory, and group reporting requirements, ensuring high‑quality submissions that meet internal and external obligations. Drive process improvement initiatives, leveraging automation and AI‑enabled tools to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reporting quality. Strengthen financial reporting controls by designing and continuously improving frameworks that support compliance, assurance, and risk management. Build trusted relationships across Finance, the wider business, auditors, regulators, and AIA Group stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes.

Your Capabilities

You have strong technical accounting expertise and the ability to interpret complex accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and reporting obligations. You bring experience delivering external financial reporting, audit coordination, and financial analysis within a complex finance environment. You have a proven ability to identify improvement opportunities and redesign processes that increase efficiency, quality, and future scalability. You bring strong critical thinking and problem‑solving skills, using data and multiple sources of information to generate practical insights and solutions. You have the confidence to build credibility with a wide range of stakeholders, influencing outcomes through clear communication and collaboration. You may also have experience with financial services reporting and modern finance technologies such as SAP, BlackLine, Power BI, Power Query, or AI‑enabled finance tools.

Your Life at AIA

At AIA, your experience matters, and so does your impact. In return for your expertise, we offer a career where you can apply your skills to meaningful work that improves lives across Asia‑Pacific. You’ll enjoy flexible ways of working, competitive rewards, and access to continuous learning programs designed to keep you ahead in a rapidly changing world. Our collaborative culture values your ideas and empowers you to innovate, solve complex challenges, and contribute to our ambition of helping a billion people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030.

DEIB

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to who we are and how we work. We value people from all walks of life and welcome candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences, including those with disabilities, additional mental health needs, chronic health conditions, or who are neurodiverse.

“Better” starts with people who reimagine what is possible and turn ideas into meaningful action. At AIA, you will contribute in your own way, help shape outcomes that matter and collaborate with colleagues across disciplines, teams, markets, and levels. We will support you to broaden your perspective, strengthen your capabilities and grow your impact. Together, we challenge assumptions, learn from one another and find better ways forward. Bring your ambition, experience and ideas to AIA, and help shape what “better” looks like. View our AIA LinkedIn page. Bring your difference to AIA.