Tax Accountant
Sharp & Carter Sydney North Shore
Posted 5 days ago
About the role
Are you looking to take the next step in your tax career with a role that offers variety, visibility, and impact? This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative finance team where you’ll play a key role in managing tax obligations across a broad range of areas, while also contributing to process improvement and business initiatives.
What you’ll be doing:
- Prepare and lodge tax returns, calculations, and journals across a variety of taxes (income tax, GST, FBT, payroll tax, CbC reporting, stamp duty, levies, and more).
- Complete monthly tax calculations, reconciliations, and journals.
- Research complex tax issues and prepare clear supporting memoranda.
- Maintain high-quality workpapers and reconciliations that ensure accuracy and transparency.
- Identify opportunities to automate and improve tax processes, driving efficiency.
- Partner with finance and business teams to strengthen tax risk management and embed effective controls.
- Support internal/external audits and tax authority reviews.
- Stay across legislative changes, assessing their impact on the business.
- Contribute to wider finance and business projects as needed.
What’s in it for you:
- Impact & variety: Work across a diverse set of tax obligations with exposure to complex and interesting areas of tax.
- Career growth: Be part of a supportive finance team that encourages learning, innovation, and professional development.
- Collaboration: Partner closely with finance and business stakeholders, making a real impact on risk management and process uplift.
- Future focus: Opportunity to be involved in automation, transformation, and building better ways of working.
- Flexibility: Work from home as much as you need!
About You
We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys balancing technical expertise with business partnership. You’ll ideally have:
- 3+ years’ tax experience, ideally gained in a Chartered setting.
- CA/CPA qualification (or working towards).
- Strong technical tax knowledge, with indirect tax experience a plus.
- Experience within insurance or financial services (desirable, not essential).
- Ability to navigate systems, data, and processes confidently.
- A track record of process improvement or automation is highly valued.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in a large, multi-entity organisation is desirable.
- A proactive, self-starter mindset with curiosity and drive.
About the client
Our client is one of the top general insurers across Australia and New Zealand, this organisation underwrites a wide portfolio of products including motor, home, contents, business, bicycle, and pet insurance.
How to apply
To apply online, please click on the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Jack Billingham at [email protected], quoting Ref No JBL83913.
About Sharp & Carter Sydney North Shore
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