Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $120 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2026).
Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement. We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed. Senior Accountant — Financial Control and Reporting Sydney CBD
- Take genuine ownership of complex reporting across month-end, statutory accounts and balance sheet control.
- Resolve accounting issues at the source by investigating anomalies, tracing data origins, and understanding how data moves through interconnected systems.
- Based in our Sydney office, you’ll enjoy versatile working (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
- We’re also open to considering applicants currently in Australia on a Working Holiday visa.
- Own month-end reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and consolidation entries for your entities, making sure issues are understood and resolved.
- Prepare statutory financial statements and disclosures, including half-year and year-end reporting that contributes to Challenger Limited’s ASX reporting
- Investigate variances and anomalies by comparing source data, understanding system flows and tracing issues back to their root cause
- Take the lead on unfamiliar or complex accounting matters: establish the facts, research the relevant requirements, test possible explanations and form a considered view before bringing in others or recommending a way forward.
- Consider how accounting decisions affect management reporting, statutory accounts, tax and audit, and provide auditors with clear, well-supported evidence
- Strengthen controls,



simplify processes and remove unnecessary manual work or recurring issues
- Explain accounting issues and recommendations clearly, while sharing knowledge and supporting others across the team

About the role
You’ll join Challenger’s Life Insurance and Investments Financial Control team, working with colleagues across Group Financial Control, Tax, Business Performance, Risk, Actuarial and our investment teams. It’s a broad, technically varied role where you’ll have the opportunity to see the bigger picture and take real ownership of reporting outcomes. You’ll own reporting for a group of entities and be expected to investigate issues independently, form a view and drive them through to resolution. You’ll also develop an end-to-end understanding of how information flows from source systems through the general ledger and into financial reporting and how an issue in one area can affect the wider organisation. In practice, you’ll:
- Own month-end reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and consolidation entries for your entities, making sure issues are understood and resolved.
- Prepare statutory financial statements and disclosures, including half-year and year-end reporting that contributes to Challenger Limited’s ASX reporting
- Investigate variances and anomalies by comparing source data, understanding system flows and tracing issues back to their root cause
- Take the lead on unfamiliar or complex accounting matters:



establish the facts, research the relevant requirements, test possible explanations and form a considered view before bringing in others or recommending a way forward.
- Consider how accounting decisions affect management reporting, statutory accounts, tax and audit, and provide auditors with explicit, well-supported evidence
- Strengthen controls, simplify processes and remove unnecessary manual work or recurring issues
- Explain accounting issues and recommendations clearly, while sharing knowledge and supporting others across the team What you’ll bring You might be a good fit if you’re a technically strong accountant who enjoys pulling things apart to understand how they fit together and finding ways to rebuild them better. You’ll be comfortable and excited to tackle unfamiliar problems, deciding how to investigate and using your accounting fundamentals to form a considered view. Support will be available, but you won’t need a step‑step process or rely on others to tell you what to look at next. You’ll be CA or CPA qualified, or hold an equivalent qualification, with strong experience across statutory reporting, financial statement preparation, consolidations, balance sheet ownership and financial control. We’d also value:
- End-to-end experience preparing financial statements and disclosures, supported by strong balance sheet and reconciliation capability.
- An understanding of how source systems feed the general ledger and how accounting decisions can affect reporting across an organisation.
- Exposure to consolidations, multiple entities or another environment where issues can have broader downstream impacts.
- Examples of strengthening controls, simplifying processes, removing ma

📌 Senior Accountant (Sydney)
🏢 Coleambally
📍 Sydney