Financial Accountant - Fidante Finance

Fidante are one of Australia’s largest active investors, offering compelling strategies across equities, fixed income, and alternative assets, via partnerships with leading investment teams. Fidante is a multi-boutique investment manager, wholly owned by Challenger Limited an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $123.9 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2025).

We achieve our goals by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.

The Fidante Finance team sits at the centre of the Fidante business, delivering results and analysis to senior stakeholders including the CEO, CFO, Group Boards and Investor Relations.

The team acts as accountant to Fidante's affiliate fund managers which means genuine exposure to how a funds management business is run: you could find yourself attending board meetings or working directly with boutique fund manager principals, not just supporting the finance function behind the scenes.

About the role

Day to day, you'll be doing real financial control work: month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, statutory accounts, audit files and Board papers. The work is technically interesting, the team is collaborative, and you'll be building skills that set you up well for a long-term career in financial services finance.

What You'll Do

Month-End & Financial Control

• Own month-end journal processing and general ledger close for your portfolio of entities

• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations with analytical review and commentary

• Contribute to management reporting across the Fidante business

Tax & Compliance

• Provide information for tax return completion and other compliance matters including BAS and FBT

• Report on affiliate compliance with regulatory capital and cash requirements, including cashflow monitoring and forecasting

Statutory & Audit

• Assist with preparation of statutory financial statements for corporate and affiliate entities

• Prepare audit files and liaise with auditors on queries — good exposure to the audit process early in your career

• Prepare Board papers including workpapers for audit and risk committees, and accounting memos on new standards

Stakeholder Engagement & Improvement

• Build working relationships with affiliate fund managers and wider finance colleagues - this team is genuinely embedded in the business, not sitting behind a wall

• Identify opportunities to improve processes and controls across your portfolio, and help drive those changes

• Support ad hoc projects including establishment of new affiliates, distribution partnerships and acquisitions

The skills and experience you'll need

You're newly CA/CPA qualified, ideally with some post-qualified experience in a financial accounting or financial control environment. You take the detail seriously, communicate clearly, and want to keep growing.

Essential

• Solid grounding in financial accounting and control - you understand the month-end process and can prepare and review reconciliations to a high standard

• Strong analytical skills - able to break down a problem, identify what matters and work through to a solution

• Clear communicator, comfortable translating financial information for both finance and non-finance stakeholders

• High attention to detail and a track record of producing accurate, well-presented work

• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets

• A genuine interest in funds management — we'll teach you the rest

Desirable

• Experience in financial services

• Exposure to Workday, Workiva or Anaplan

• A proactive approach to learning - this team values people who take the initiative and want to develop

Why Challenger

At Challenger, we're agile enough to move quickly and large enough to invest in our people's growth. We offer flexibility, a culture that values contribution, and benefits that reflect how seriously we take our people.

• Discretionary bonus scheme. 

• Employee share plan. 

• Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents. 

• Flexibility on when, and how, parental leave is taken. 

• Challenger Day – one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make. 

• Subsidised on-site café and fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro 

• Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leaves). 

• Extra superannuation contributions. 

• Access to Fitness Passport

• Free on-site yoga, mindfulness and Pilates classes

• Annual flu shots and skin checks

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We value inclusion and diversity of thought, promote flexible working practices so our people can integrate their work and personal lives, and are proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We believe in bringing your authentic self and a belonging in our culture. We are prideful in participating in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) as a national benchmark on LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and best practice in Australia. We offer the opportunity for a broad career experience and value people who are inquisitive and rigorous and are driven to make a difference.

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