About the role
Reporting to the Senior Accountant, the Accountant plays an
important role in supporting the effective delivery of Queensland Rugby
League’s operational finance function.
You will help ensure accurate processing, reconciliations,
month-end support, statutory compliance and management reporting across the
organisation. Working closely with the Senior Accountant and Chief Financial
Officer, you will provide high-quality financial information to support budget
owners and the Senior Leadership Team, while helping maintain strong financial
controls and efficient processes.
This is a varied, hands-on opportunity for someone who
enjoys managing competing priorities, building strong stakeholder relationships
and identifying ways to improve systems and workflows.
What you’ll be doing
- ·Support the smooth day-to-day operation of the
finance function, ensuring work is delivered accurately and on time
- ·Prepare reconciliations, journals, supporting
documentation and schedules for month-end and reporting requirements
- ·Contribute to management reporting, variance
analysis, budgeting and forecasting activities
- ·Assist with statutory compliance requirements,
including BAS, IAS, FBT and other regulatory obligations
- ·Support the annual audit by preparing schedules,
responding to information requests and helping implement agreed recommendations
- ·Partner with budget owners and internal
stakeholders to provide financial information, answer queries and support sound
decision-making
About you
- ·Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Finance
or Commerce, with CPA or CA studies underway or recently completed preferred.
- ·Experience in an Accountant, Assistant
Accountant or similar finance role, ideally within a small to medium-sized
organisation.
- ·Strong technical accounting capability,
including month-end processes, reconciliations and statutory compliance.
- ·A sharp eye for detail, with the ability to
prepare accurate journals, supporting documentation and schedules.
- ·Confidence using Excel and accounting systems,
with MYOB experience desirable.
- ·A collaborative, down-to-earth approach, you
communicate well, build strong relationships and enjoy being part of a team.
- ·You are proactive, reliable and happy to roll up
the sleeves to help where needed.
ROLE SPECS
This is a permanent full-time position. The salary for
this position is $75,000 plus superannuation. QRL remunerate based on the
position requirements to ensure pay equity in sport. We offer 4 weeks
annual leave and 1 week of refresh leave throughout the season as well as
hybrid working arrangements.
We adhere to the highest standards of child safeguarding.
All applicants must be eligible to obtain a Working with Children Check (Blue
Card). In addition, as part of moving through the recruitment process
applicants must be willing to undergo all relevant probity checks, which may
include reference checks, employment history verification, identity
confirmation, criminal history checks, and other assessments as required.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that
is representative of everyone in our Rugby League community. We encourage
applications from people of all genders and ages, First Nations peoples,
individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people from
multicultural communities. Please help us to understand if there are any
reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process to assist your
application.
HOW TO APPLY
Please use the “apply now’ button in Seek. We would love to hear your ‘why’ so if you can write us a couple of points in your cover
letter, we would greatly appreciate it.
We are looking to move quick and will be running a first
round of shortlisting after 12.00pm
Thursday 4th June 2026.If we are unable to find our next superstar in that round, then we will
run another shortlist process ending two weeks after that.
Got questions? Just send an email to peopleandculture@qrl.com.au, and we will be in touch as soon as we can.
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