NAB – National Australia Bank Hiring for Finance Associate, Accounting Operations Job at Melbourne Full Time

• 12 month Fixed-term opportunity to join the Accounting Operations team
• Build your career in a highly engaged and successful team
• We are committed to working flexibly

A career that gives you more

Your career at NAB is about more than money, it’s about serving our customers well and helping our communities prosper. We have an exciting opportunity for an early-career finance professional to join the Accounting Operations team and deliver management and financial accounting outputs. This role offers exciting career development prospects to those with aspirations of a career in Finance, whether as a Finance Partner or in Group External Reporting.

Your key responsibilities will include

• Ensure the accurate and timely delivery of financial and management accounting activities including journal preparation, month end close, reconciliations, half year and year end statutory reporting requirements
• Effectively manage any issues and/or escalations pertaining to those activities through to resolution
• Ensure controls are effective and operated in line with policy requirements
• Continual assessment of processes, outputs and controls to progress the function toward best practice operational excellence
• Actively participate in Finance Strategy initiatives

What you will bring

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organisations
• Highly developed problem-solving skills, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Strong process improvement capability in both identification and successful implementation of process re-engineering initiatives
• Effective interpersonal skills – you have a growth mindset, are highly motivated, have strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to manage tight deadlines and conflicting priorities
• Strong analytical skills – ability to transform complex financial and non-financial data into meaningful business insights
• Innovation – you actively challenge the status quo, embrace new tools and technologies and apply them to finance processes
• Undergraduate qualification (Financial or Commercial field preferred)
• Experience in Financial / Management Accounting or Reconciliations
• Sound business acumen and an understanding of the financial services industry and relevant accounting standards

By joining NAB and our Finance team, you are committing to putting our customers’ needs first every time. You will be ambitious for growth; always curious and learning from colleagues. You will speak honestly, always valuing the time and opinion of others. You will own your work, doing what’s right, even when it’s hard.

NAB, invested in you

We are committed to gender equality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and have a diverse and inclusive workforce. We have committed $70bn in financing to help address climate change and provide 2 days of paid leave each year through our employee volunteering program to support community organisations.

We support our colleagues to be their best by offering a wide range of educational, financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits. For more information please visit here.

Join NAB

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let’s explore who you are and what drives you. We’d love to share our vision for the future of banking.

To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.

• Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.