Apply: Senior Financial Accountant - IFRS 17 Implementation

Reference: BH-169839
Our Client
One of the leading Insurance organisation in Australia boasting market leading diversity and flexibility in the workplace.

The Opportunity
Reporting into the Financial Controller you will utilise your financial reporting and IFRS standards knowledge along with your project skills to play an instrumental part in the implementation of the new IFRS 17 insurance accounting standard.  Specific deliverable will include:
  • Mapping ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ requirements 
  • Researching changes in accounting and reporting requirements
  • Ensuring finance requirements across financial and regulatory reporting are documented 
  • Supporting solutions in response to the changes driven by new standard
  • Process mapping
  • Act as conduit between project team, finance and technology 
  • Requirements Analysis 
  • Ensuring completeness of Finance Requirements
  • Working closely with technology to ensure technical solution and implementation supports business requirements
  • Supporting testing, training and implementation 
  • Adhere to project management methodologies methodologies
  • Risk management .

This is initially a 12 month contract although the project is due to run for 18 months - 2 years

Required Skills & Experience
  • CA/CPA Qualified
  • Financial, statutory or regulatory reporting background with IFRS knowledge
  • Insurance experience
  • Experience as a finance SME in a project environment
  • Exposure to project management methodologies such as Agile (preferable)
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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