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Join us as a Financial Controller to make a bigger business impact with your Finance skills and wider talents.

Make your mark in Finance

Our Finance team plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy balance sheet at AIG. It delivers significant finance support for the overall enterprise, optimising operations, controllership, funding, and capital structure to honor our stakeholder commitments. The team’s work is invaluable to informing leadership decision making, complying with regulatory requirements, and maintaining financial discipline, transparency and controls, while providing timely and meaningful information.

How you will create an impact

As a senior member of the Pacific Finance team the Controller plays a critical role in ensuring timely and accurate reporting of financial information in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP, IFRS) and local statutory requirements while also assisting with quarterly analytics. This position is responsible for ensuring integrity of data and maintenance of a robust control environment, having a command of the general ledger structures, driving process improvements.

Key accountabilities will include but not limited to:

Oversight and accountability for timely and accurate delivery of the entity financial statements for local regulatory and group reporting purposes.Oversight and adherence to the monthly, quarterly and annual accounting close processes and ensuring that all transactions are booked in a timely manner and in accordance with US GAAP for group reporting purposes and local statutory and IFRS requirements.Working with wider finance teams, the Finance Center, and other key functions as required, to enable the execution of recurring close processesProvide financial statement analytics and insight into balance sheet movements, developments and areas of concern as part of the quarterly reporting processesOversight and accountability for accounting policy interpretation (including liaising with the Office of Accounting Policy - OAP).Providing finance related reports and inputs for Board of Directors and Audit Committee meetings.Manage and lead efforts to strengthening the control environment and implementing process improvements, ensure a robust internal control framework including SOX, is maintained to deliver accurate and error free reporting.Manage the audit process with external and internal auditors.Act as the primary point of contact for the various global initiatives related to Finance Transformation.Support, contribute and/or lead projects and workstreams associated with significant transactions and ad hoc activities, such as acquisitions, spin-offs, de-consolidations, re-segmentations, capital transactions, etc.

What you’ll need to succeed

Qualified CA, CPA, extensive Finance experience with strong operational and technical accounting experience with U.S GAAP and statutory reporting, preferably in the insurance industry or financial services sector. IFRS 17, SAP and audit experience a plus.Experience leading teams in a dynamic, transformational environment, where change is embraced and viewed as an opportunity to drive process improvementDemonstrated strong business and financial acumen, local Australian /New Zealand regulatory and tax knowledge as well as advanced change management and project management skillsStrong problem-solving skillsHighly influential and able to flex leadership style according to the situationExcellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation development and delivery, with an ability to effectively navigate a complex, global organizationResilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere

Ready to lead by example? We would love to hear from you.

Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver ever-better solutions to our customers. At AIG, you can go further to support individuals, businesses, and communities, helping them to manage risk, respond to times of uncertainty and discover new potential. We invest in our largest asset, our people, through continuous learning and development, in a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they want to become.

Welcome to a culture of belonging

We’re committed to creating a culture that truly respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions and goals. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging through our flexible work arrangements, diversity and inclusion learning, cultural awareness activities and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). With global chapters, ERGs are a cornerstone for our culture of inclusion. The diversity of our people is one of AIG’s greatest assets, and we are honored that our drive for positive change has been recognized by numerous recent awards and accreditations.

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories.

AIG is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities.  If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send an email to candidatecare@aig.com.  

Functional Area:

FA - Finance

AIG Australia Limited