Asset Accountant
Job description
Asset Accountant
This is a hands-on Asset Accountant role suited to someone who enjoys ownership, accuracy, and working closely with the business. You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end accounting and reporting of a large and varied asset base, ensuring records are accurate, compliant, and decision-useful.
You’ll sit within the Financial Services team and partner with stakeholders across operations, procurement, and finance.
What you’ll be doing
This is a hands-on Asset Accountant role suited to someone who enjoys ownership, accuracy, and working closely with the business. You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end accounting and reporting of a large and varied asset base, ensuring records are accurate, compliant, and decision-useful.
You’ll sit within the Financial Services team and partner with stakeholders across operations, procurement, and finance.
What you’ll be doing
- Manage and maintain the fixed asset register, including acquisitions, disposals, transfers, and retirements
- Calculate and post depreciation and amortisation in line with accounting standards
- Perform asset valuations, impairment assessments, and reconciliations
- Prepare asset-related reporting for financial statements, audits, and regulatory requirements
- Analyse key asset metrics such as replacement asset value and sustainability ratios
- Support budgeting and forecasting for capital expenditure
- Strengthen internal controls and continuously improve asset accounting processes
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate classification and documentation of assets
- Degree qualified in Accounting, Commerce, or a related discipline
- Proven experience in financial or asset accounting
- Strong knowledge of Australian Accounting Standards relating to asset management
- High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Confident communicator who can work effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Well organised, adaptable, and comfortable managing competing priorities
- Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills
- Experience with ERP systems and accounting software
- Exposure to asset management systems is highly regarded
- CPA or CA qualification (or working towards)
- Experience in complex or asset-intensive environments
- Permanent, stable position with genuine responsibility
- Broad exposure across asset accounting, reporting, and business partnering
- Opportunity to improve systems and processes, not just maintain them
- Based in Townsville with a supportive and professional finance team