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An exciting opportunity to join BOQ Group (which includes Bank of Queensland, Virgin Money Australia and ME Bank) as a Senior Group Financial Accountant during our transformation journey on a 12-month maximum term basis. By joining the digital bank of the future, you will be able to make a difference with curiosity and optimism by supporting financial reporting requirements and system development, adding significant value to our organisation. With exciting projects currently underway, you will be a key contributor to unique business development and change across the BOQ Group.
As a Senior Group Financial Accountant, you will sit within BOQ Group’s financial control team, and will be responsible for ensuring the Bank’s financial reporting requirements are met. You will also seek for systems and controls to be continually developed, enabling timely, efficient and accurate reporting to executive management.
Your primary focus will be on the monthly and annual financial accounting for BOQ Group and subsidiaries, combined with the day-to-day activities for the finance function. This will include providing oversight and mentoring to Group Financial Accountants while assisting other Senior Financial Accountants and Group Finance Managers in ensuring that the Bank meets its management and statutory reporting deadlines.
Furthermore, you will be required to support the Group Financial Control manager in the consolidation and standardisation of financial control activities to drive efficiency and enhance controls, providing a platform to transition to the target future state following the broader finance transformation.
This role is challenging and exciting with a wide range of opportunities to help you take your career to the next level, where we are committed to helping you grow to become a top-tier professional in financial accounting.
About you
You will be a collaborative people and outcome focussed professional who thrives on working in a fast-paced environment and has a continuous improvement mindset. You will have a willingness and commitment to adapt and learn, having solid communication skills on a verbal and written level to articulate technical information and partner with team members.
Having previous accounting experience ideally within a financial control function, you will have proven technical accounting skills and implementation of new accounting standards. This role will require CPA/CA/ICAA qualifications (or international equivalent), supported by an understanding of control frameworks. Furthermore, you will have the ability to consistently meet deadlines with limited supervision from management.
Working for us is energetic and fast-paced, and we need top talent to take us where we want to go. BOQ Group people are easy to spot. They're smart, enthusiastic, full of ideas and passionate about what they do. If this sounds like you and you're looking to join a brand on the forefront of financial services, we'd love to have a conversation.
About Us
BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.
BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.
BOQ’s Inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.
In 2021 BOQ Group was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.
Our Benefits
Discounted financial products
Salary sacrificing options
Paid parental leave with no minimum
Paid volunteer days
Purchase annual leave
BUPA Corporate Plan
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
A ‘zero tolerance’ to Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) with active support for employees experiencing DFV
5 employee diversity network groups focusing on; First Nations Reconciliation Council, Proudly ME (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career.
BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.
How to Apply
To apply for this role please follow the links or apply via our Careers Page.
The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.
If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.
Job Reference: BOQ02037
