Senior Financial Accountant - Finance Transformation Sydney

LGT is the largest Private Banking and Asset Management group in the world to be owned by an entrepreneurial family. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we have years of experience in the management of sizeable sums of assets.

We’re looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to play a key dual role: delivering high-quality financial control outcomes while helping drive meaningful transformation across finance.

This role offers a unique blend of hands-on technical accounting and impactful change initiatives, with exposure to system enhancements, process optimisation and automation.

 If you’re someone who enjoys improving how things work—not just maintaining them—this role will give you the platform to make a real impact.

This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity, with possibility for extension.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver core financial control activities including month-end close, journals, reconciliations and reporting

• Support statutory reporting, audit processes, tax and regulatory requirements (e.g. BAS, FBT, APRA)

• Partner with the broader finance team to ensure accurate, timely and well-controlled BAU delivery

Finance Transformation & Improvement

• Drive and support initiatives to streamline processes, reduce manual effort and improve scalability

• Play a key role in finance transformation projects, including BlackLine implementation and enhancement

• Identify and implement opportunities for automation, standardisation and stronger financial controls

• Improve month-end efficiency through systems optimisation and better use of data and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI)Document and uplift finance processes, workflows and controls

Control & Governance

• Strengthen reconciliation practices, documentation and internal controls

• Identify gaps and support remediation to enhance governance and risk management

• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and accountability

About You

• CA/CPA qualified with 3–5+ years post-qualified experience in accounting or finance

• Strong foundational experience in financial control, reporting and reconciliations

• Proven involvement in finance transformation initiatives including process enhancement or systems implementation

• Hands-on experience or exposure to tools such as BlackLine, Power BI, SAP, Microsoft dynamics or similar finance systems

• Naturally proactive, with a passion for driving efficiencies and improving ways of working

• Comfortable managing BAU responsibilities while contributing to ongoing change initiatives

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate and influence effectively

• Adaptable and self-driven, with the ability to succeed in a dynamic and evolving environment

Why you’ll love this role

• True hybrid role – not just BAU; actively shape how the finance function evolves

• Broad business visibility – work across financial control, transformation and key strategic projects

• Supportive, collaborative culture where ideas are valued and improvement is encouraged