Sydney (AU)
Full time
R79109
By joining Sedgwick, you’ll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there's no limit to what you can achieve.
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Assistant Accountant
Looking to take the next step in your accounting career?
Join our Financial Control team as an Assistant Accountant, where you’ll gain hands‑on exposure to month‑end reporting, compliance, financial controls, and process improvement initiatives. Reporting to a supportive Senior Accountant, this is a great prospect to build your technical expertise, broaden your commercial finance experience, and make a meaningful contribution within a collaborative team environment.

Accountabilities

- Support monthly detailed P&L; analysis by investigating significant variances, resolving anomalies, and ensuring data accuracy. Collaborate on improving GL postings to enhance the reliability and integrity of financial reporting.
- Support month‑end, quarter‑end and year‑end processing, including the preparation and posting of journals for prepayments, accruals, WIP, contractor costs, and intercompany transactions, under guidance from senior team members. prepare and post key journals in line with accounting standards and internal controls.
- Assist in timely financial reports delivery and dashboards (P&L;, DSO, KPI metrics) to support decision‑making.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations and reviews to ensure accuracy and completeness, proactively investigating and resolving unreconciled or unusual items, and escalating discrepancies to senior finance team members while continuously developing strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Support both the external audit process and internal audit process and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely financial statements.
- Travel, Expenses & Concur Management (AU & NZ) Administer corporate travel and expense processes, including Concur support, user access, and reconciliation oversight to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely reporting, and reviewing and approving corporate traveler invoices.
- Projects, Change & Continuous Improvement Support office moves, system implementations, and process improvements, contributing to efficiencies and ad hoc business initiatives.
- Assist with tax obligations, including GST, FBT and income tax returns, while keeping up to date with relevant legislation.
- Collaborate with shared services to ensure accurate and efficient month‑end close and reporting.
- Financial Operations & Vendor Management Support end‑to‑end financial operations across ANZ, including Accounts Payable, procurement, vendor management, and spend control, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and effective reporting.
- Workplace Operations & Administration Assist in managing facilities, real estate, and office operations, including vendor coordination, utilities, onboarding/offboarding, and compliance requirements to ensure smooth day‑to‑day operations.
- Executive Support & Business Initiatives Provide support to the Executive Team on operational activities, projects, and compliance, contributing to office initiatives, system improvements, and continuous process enhancement across ANZ.
- Fleet Management Coordinate company vehicle fleet operations, including managing quotations, agreements, usage tracking, and business requirements, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, and reviewing and approving fleet‑related invoices.
- Accounts Payable (AU & NZ) Support financial operations across ANZ, including AP processing, SAP data integrity, cost centre allocations. Assist with budgeting, and coordination with the Malaysia Hub and outsourced providers.

About you

- CPA/CA qualified or currently progressing
- Practical accounting experience through an assistant accountant position, preferably in a commercial setting
- Exposure to financial control responsibilities, including month‑end close and intercompany accounting
- Practical experience in month‑end processing,



supported by a sound understanding of accounting principles
- Experience supporting detailed P&L; and balance sheet reviews, with a high level of attention to detail
- Intermediate Excel skills (Power Query Preferred)
- Basic understanding of statutory accounting and tax compliance, with the ability to support related activities and learn under guidance.
- Experience across month‑end, quarter‑end, and annual reporting cycles
- High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
- Capability to investigate routine financial anomalies and assist in resolving them, with support from senior colleagues when required
- Strong communication skills to coordinate effectively with business units and shared services
- Ability to support the maintenance and documentation of financial controls, with an interest in contributing to continuous improvement.

Caring Culture

It's at the heart of everything we do, and we show we care by living our core values: Empathy, Accountability, Inclusion, Collaboration, and Growth. By joining Sedgwick, you’ll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work‑life balance. Here, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

Sedgwick is an equal opportunity employer, recognized by the Diversity Council of Australia. We're committed to fair and accessible recruitment. If you need special accommodations, please let us know when applying.

If you are successful in joining our team, you will be required to complete reference checks, mandatory background checks, including a police check and work rights.

Why Sedgwick

Sedgwick is the global leader in claims administration, loss adjusting, benefits administration, and product recall. We are committed to providing excellent service to our clients and are passionate about helping them through difficult times.

Every day, our colleagues are working to make the world better. They're helping people recover after an injury or illness. They're assisting with damage from a natural disaster. They're even giving back to others in their spare time, championing over 500 charities in communities around the world, and counting.

Whether you're in loss adjusting, claims, customer service, nursing, engineering, IT or another specialty, there's a place for you here to be a force for good.

Benefits of working with us

- Hybrid working arrangement. #LI-Hybrid
- Sedgwick Australia University - access to more than 15,000 courses on demand and opportunities to continue formal education
- +0.5% on top of Superannuation Guarantee
- Domestic and International Career Pathways
- Sedgwick Colleague Resource Groups - international, cross‑functional, colleague‑led groups aimed at fostering an inclusive workplace

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Sedgwick is the world's leading risk and claims administration partner, which helps clients thrive by navigating the unexpected. The company's expertise, combined with the most advanced AI‑enabled technology available, sets the standard for solutions in claims administration, loss adjusting, benefits administration, and product recall. With over 33,000 colleagues and 10,000 clients across 80 countries, Sedgwick provides unmatched perspective, caring that counts, and solutions for the rapidly changing and complex risk landscape. For more, see sedgwick.com





We are looking for an organised and detail‑focused Accounts Assistant or Bookkeeper to join our Finance team. This role is a part‑time position, initially for 2 days per week with flexible, fully remote working arrangements. It is ideal for a bookkeeping professional who enjoys working independently and contributing to the success of a growing business.

Working closely with the broader Finance team, you will support a range of day‑to‑day finance activities including accounts payable, basic record‑keeping, reconciliations, and month‑end processes.

The scope and level of responsibility will be tailored to your experience. An experienced candidate may take ownership of a broader range of finance activities, while someone earlier in their career will be supported to build their capability and gradually take on additional responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

- Accounts Payable – Process supplier invoices, including checking, coding, entering and preparing invoices for payment approval
- Ledger Integrity – Complete bank, credit card and general account reconciliations in MYOB
- Month‑End Support – Assist with month‑end activities, including processing journals, accruals and balancing ledgers
- Accounts Receivable – Support basic accounts receivable activities as required, including customer invoices and debtor follow‑up
- Data & Records – Maintain accurate and well‑organised and confidential finance records
- Query Resolution – Work collaboratively with staff, managers, customers and suppliers to resolve transactional discrepancies
- Process Improvement – Identify opportunities to improve finance systems, workflows, data quality and efficiency

Work Environment & Culture

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About you

You are reliable, highly organised and comfortable working independently in a remote environment. You take pride in producing accurate work, meeting deadlines and following tasks through to completion.

You may have experience across bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll or general finance administration. We do not expect you to have mastery over every single area on day one; your attention to detail, communication skills and willingness to learn matter most.

Ideally, you bring experience across some or all the following areas:

- End‑to‑end accounts payable or general finance administration
- Completing bank or balance sheet reconciliations
- Hand‑on experience with MYOB (or similar systems)
- Microsoft Excel and general data management
- A knack for identifying errors, investigating discrepancies and finding practical solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for managing vendor and internal queries.

Why Work With Us

- Competitive hourly rate – $34‑42/hr based on experience and technical accounting capability
- True Flexibility – 100% remote role with flexible hours across your 2 days per week
- Growth – Long‑term role with the opportunity to take on more scope as the business grows
- Impact – Work closely with business leadership in a supportive, collaborative environment

Responsibilities

- Accurately enter data into the systems
- Process data work between accounts manager and clients
- Verify data accuracy and completeness
- Ensure data integrity by performing regular checks and audits
- Identify and correct errors in data entry
- Maintain confidentiality and security of all data
- Work with a dedicated team to ensure timely data entry and support
- Perform other related duties as assigned

Requirements

- High school diploma or equivalent
- Basic computer skills
- Good typing speed and accuracy
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Able to meet deadlines

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📌 Hybrid Assistant Accountant: P&L & Financial Controls (Sydney)
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