Senior Manager - Finance Operations

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Join TAL as a Senior Manager – Finance Operations, where you will deliver high-quality support to TAL’s various business units. Reporting to the Head of Finance Operations, you will lead a team of three individuals and collectively be responsible for producing monthly results concerning all financial reporting for statutory, regulatory, and management purposes.

This is an 11-month fixed term contract, working flexibly from our Sydney office.

In this role you will:

• Lead the team to execute day-to-day finance operations, including executing actuarial models for reporting purposes, ensuring timely analytics delivery, and driving continuous improvement through technology and data analytics
• Identify opportunities to improve and optimise the process
• Facilitate the management of the team's workflow
• Support team learning and development through on-the-job training and other initiatives
• Cultivate collaborative relationships with finance, actuarial teams, and key stakeholders

• Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries or equivalent
• Strong experience working within the Life Insurance industry
• Financial reporting experience including AASB 17
• Prophet modelling experience
• Leadership teams
• Experience in automation tools, desired

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be: 

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index 
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change 
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. 
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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