Assistant Accountant

READY FOR ANYTHING

At IAG, we live and work by our purpose to make your world a safer place. We are motivated by a unique culture that celebrates honesty, creativity, empathy, equality and collaboration. We call it the IAG way, and it means we all share a ‘ready for anything’ mindset that sets the tone for positive actions and positive outcomes. We put heart into everything we do which guides us to create amazing things for our customers, our people and our communities.

As the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand, we own some of the region’s most trusted brands, including AMI, State, NZI, Lantern, Swann and NAC. We are ready for anything.

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**Assistant Accountant**

The purpose of the Assistant Account role is to assist the Finance Manager on an ongoing basis; including assistance with various internal and external financial reporting requirements of the NZ Group, monitoring of local cash requirements and debtor reporting

**Key Responsibilities**:
Financial Accounting and Reporting - 50%
- Provide financial accounting and reporting support to the Corporate Accounting team.
- Prepare reconciliations of various general ledger accounts ensuring un-reconciled items are cleared promptly and within established standards.
- Monitor completion of all GL reconciliations on a monthly basis to ensure all GL owners have completed reconciliations on a timely basis.
- Enter monthly journals provided by Treasury and PMO.
- Monthly analysis of software development expenditure ensuring all capital expenditure is recorded on the balance sheet.
- Prepare various quarterly and annual statistics returns.
- Assist in the year end reporting process by completing various Group Disclosure Pack Schedules and inputting financial statements into Caseware.
- Ensuring Lease Make Good Provision is updated and reconciled with the Property team on a monthly basis.
- Participate in work rotation within or outside Corporate Accounting team as part of ongoing development and training.

Cash Management - 20%
- Preparation of daily cashflow report and monthly cashflow forecasting.
- Ensuring payables bank account is sufficiently funded on a daily basis.
- Ongoing interaction with Canterbury claims team to ensure all large EQ claims are forecasted and allowed for.
- Ensuring bank counterparty limits are not breached.
- Ensuring quarterly dividend payments are processed on a timely basis.

Debtors Reporting - 20%
- Preparation of monthly debtor’s journal entries.
- Ensure debtor’s accounts are reconciled monthly and any variances followed up on immediately.
- Ensuring all supporting debtors reporting is produced to support debtors account and reconciliation.
- Co-Insurance reconciliations and payment verification.
- Quarterly broker debtor reporting for inclusion in ALCO Board papers.

Contribute to Excellent Customer Care - 5%
- Proactively contribute to improve the image and outcomes of the company within the marketplace to the external customer as well as provide excellent internal customer service.

Sustainability - 5%
- Contribute to IAG NZ’s action plan for sustainable growth by promoting the sustainability initiatives and developing unit actions that assist the organisation to achieve its sustainability goals. Financial Responsibilities

**Skills & Experience**:
Industry and/or field experience
- Good working knowledge of accounting and generally accepted accounting principles.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and experience with accounting software.
- Analytical, numerate and attention to detail.
- Experience in financial accounting and corporate reporting environment.
- Commerce/Business degree.

Personal Attributes
- Ability to handle pressure and meet deadlines.
- Proactive in establishing own objectives and monitoring progress
- Flexible and ability to work in a team environment. Showcasing good interpersonal and communication skills.

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**Ready for anything? Let’s talk.**

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**Applications close on 15th Novemeber**

IAG rewards and recognises its people with generous benefits, career development opportunities and real work-life balance. Employees also enjoy up to 50% insurance discounts, flexible work and leave options, various corporate partner discounts and a people-focused culture that celebrates achievements big and small.

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