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Form of workAt MLC Life Insurance, we're proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We're Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world's leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We're driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most - and that's a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We're a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role
We currently have an opportunity to join our Financial Control team as an Accountant.
The role will have a focus on Insurance, Corporate Accounting and Tax Compliance. Financial Control is responsible for the integrity of financial data, ensuring Financial Control policies and standards are adopted. The team is responsible for getting the accounting numbers right in both our statutory reporting and management reporting.
Working with other team members, you will assist in initiatives to improve how insurance transactions are understood, and development of processes to strengthen the financial reporting control environment. There will also be month-end responsibilities including preparing journals, and ensuring our balance sheet is appropriately reconciled.
This role will see you working closely with the Actuarial Services teams, External Reporting and other stakeholders in providing insight and analysis of the numbers.
About you
To be successful in this role you will be an individual who has a high attention to detail, a resilient mindset and the ability to problem solve. You will also have:
- CA/CPA qualified or working towards a qualification.
- Previous Accounting experience
- Demonstrated experience using Excel and/or Oracle is highly regarded.
- Strong problem solving and information analysis skills.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Bringing our best to life - why join us?
- We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
- We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
- We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
- We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
- We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
- We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.
