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QBE Hiring for Senior Finance Accountant Job at Sydney Full Time
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Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Technical Accounting Specialist – Reinsurance
Sydney | Permanent | Full-time
Your part in a changing world
At QBE, we’re driven by our purpose – to give people the confidence to achieve their ambitions.
We are an international insurer and reinsurer offering a diverse portfolio of commercial, personal and specialty products, as well as risk management solutions. Our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation. We employ a team of more than 11,800 people, in 27 countries around the world.
The opportunity
As a Technical Accounting Specialist within Reinsurance (RI), you will support the implementation of improved processes and systems that meet requirements of efficiency, simplicity and policy compliance while achieving team recording and reporting requirements. This could mean tasks such as:
- Investigating legacy transactions and balances, with a focus on risk reduction and simplification
- Owning specific data processing areas where applicable
- Standardising the RI methodologies for accounting for specific RI processes
- Exploring the application of data and analytic tools such as PowerBI and Alteryx to the RI process
- Performance of specific higher risk elements of RI operational accounting
- Individual projects to automate, streamline and simplify key areas of the team process
- Implementing and maintaining proper risk and control documentation over the process, updating as improvements are implemented
- Supporting other members of the RI admin team (on- and offshore) in performance of their roles
Your story so far
To be successful in this position, you must have:
- Tertiary qualifications in a finance related field, plus preferably qualified as CA or CPA
- Solid accounting experience within the financial services industry, preferably insurance
- Deep knowledge of Australian accounting standards
- Problem solving mindset – someone who loves to interrogate systems and piece together a process
We are here to support you
We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:
- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer and HRD Employer of Choice
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Gold Employer status in both the 2019 and 2020 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTI workplace inclusion.
QBE Employee Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstance. As a QBE employee, we will offer you:
- ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working in the office and at home to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘At My Best’ wellbeing program
- Access to ‘Share the Care’ – 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid superannuation
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance and reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Access to REACH My Best – free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, financial and legal advice, and confidential counselling
- Access to Family and Domestic Violence leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
- A sustained commitment to Reconciliation, having launched our first Reconciliation Action Plan in 2015
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services
- Benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners such as free and discounted tickets.
Join us.
Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.
QBE takes a risk and compliance approach to vaccination and strongly encourages our employees to be vaccinated. All roles in Victoria and Northern Territory require full COVID-19 vaccination and for vaccination status to be maintained in line with government requirements. Other roles may also require that full vaccination status be maintained. We will ask you to share your status as part of the application process. We won’t be able to progress with applications where candidates choose not to disclose their status for roles that require vaccination in line with our risk and compliance approach.
QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at
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How to Apply:
To submit your application, click “Apply” and follow the step by step process.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.