Be part of a team that helps clients meet critical regulatory reporting obligations across accounting and tax. You will play a key role in delivering accurate financial statements and tax calculations that support timely distributions and year-end filings. This role offers the opportunity to lead quality outcomes, coach others, and drive process improvements. If you enjoy working across multiple deadlines and stakeholders, this role is for you.
As a Financial reporting and tax team lead in the Financial Reporting and Tax team, you will oversee the timely, accurate preparation and review of portfolio-level accounting and tax deliverables to support client and regulatory requirements. You will coordinate with offshore/onshore stakeholders to resolve dependencies, maintain clear documentation of client nuances, and continuously improve team processes. You will also develop team capability through coaching, training, and knowledge-sharing.
Job responsibilities
- Review reconciled trial balances, financial statements, and supporting workpapers to ensure completeness and accuracy
- Support preparers by providing guidance on processes and deliverable requirements, including audit packs and tax reporting schedules
- Perform quality checks on deliverables prepared by team members, including financial statements, taxable income calculations, and indirect tax filings (for example, business activity statements)
- Manage deliverable timelines across daily, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual cycles to meet client and third-party deadlines
- Prepare deliverables during capacity constraints to maintain service continuity and deadline adherence
- Coordinate with Australia-based financial reporting and tax stakeholders via email and phone to resolve dependencies and clarify issues
- Ensure team responses to stakeholder queries are timely, accurate, and well-documented
- Maintain and update standard operating procedures, ensuring periodic review and recertification by the relevant approving group
- Lead knowledge-sharing and continuous learning activities to improve quality and reduce errors in deliverables
- Train and mentor new team members and provide ongoing coaching through regular one-on-one sessions
- Drive process enhancement and productivity initiatives, including participation in or leadership of team committees/governance forums
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field, or a recognized accounting qualification (for example, Chartered Accountant or Certified Public Accountant)
- At least 3 years of experience in financial reporting, tax, or audit
- Experience preparing or reviewing reconciled trial balances and financial statements
- Understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and core financial reporting principles
- Experience preparing or reviewing taxable income calculations for distribution purposes
- Experience supporting annual tax return preparation and indirect tax filings (for example, business activity statements)
- Demonstrated ability to review the work of others and provide clear, actionable feedback
- Demonstrated leadership capability through mentoring, training, or leading initiatives/projects
- Advanced analytical skills with strong attention to detail
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and stakeholder expectations
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience in the fund management industry in an accounting or tax role
- Experience coordinating deliverables reviewed by external auditors or tax agents
- Active professional license/registration where applicable (preferred but not required)