Launch your Accounting and Finance Career with a Finance Graduate role at Athena! We're looking for an enthusiastic Accounting or Finance Graduate to join our team full-time from early 2027. You'll be joining a community of like-minded individuals committed to excellence, growth, and integrity. Gain hands-on experience across accounting & finance operations, as well as working alongside other broader business areas, building a strong technical foundation while directly contributing to the ongoing success of the company. About the role: Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will play a hands-on role in strengthening the day-to-day financial controls that sit at the heart of our lending operations. As a Graduate Accountant in our Finance team, you will gain exposure across financial operations and control, including: * Financial Operations & Control: * assist with daily and month-end reconciliations across our cash, trust, ledger, and loan-book controls. * support cash flow analysis, loan account monitoring, and investigation of reconciliation exceptions. * Regulatory Reporting: * assist with the preparation and quality review of data supporting our regulatory reporting obligations. * Audit: * assist with year-end procedures and control reviews, ensuring timely compliance and accuracy. * Other: * gain ad hoc exposure across other areas within the finance function, including taxation, corporate finance & FP&A, etc. * Process Improvement: * contribute to review and improvement of existing checks and processes, including assisting with the creation of new tools and processes. You have: * Recently completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Commerce, Accounting, or a related field. * Australian Citizenship or Australian Permanent Residency when you apply. * You're an intellectually curious, ambitious self-starter with a growth mindset. Additional Benefits & Perks * You are encouraged to pursue a CA professional accreditation and will receive support towards this (Athena is a CA Registered Training Employer). * You will be supported by finance and business leaders who bring deep expertise from global accounting firms, investment banks, consulting firms and other diverse industries. * Inclusive, flexible and casual working environment. * Hybrid working with HQ anchor days in award winning office space. * Wellbeing program to support your physical, mental, social and financial health. * Perks program with access to discounts to everyday expenses. * Fantastic team culture with monthly events. Meet Athena, the Home Loan Wrecker Athena Home Loans burst into the industry in 2019 to shake things up and change home loans for good. We're reimagining home loans and showing Australia there's a lender on their side. Home loans are all we do. We continue to rewrite the rules of home lending, creating tools, products and policies that put the power back in our customers' hands. Athena has been recognised amongst multiple consumer lending and industry awards including Canstar Outstanding Value and Innovation Excellence awards, RateCity and Mozo awards, and Fintech Lender of the year and made AFR Boss best places to work list. We place the power of independence in our customers' hands and in yours. At Athena, you shape the pace and the place shapes you. Can-do and will-do, every person makes a big difference. Released from traditional hierarchy and norms, you're free to be the person you know you are and want to be. Athena adds layers to your learning, not layers of bureaucracy, so you can do what you do best. If you're looking to shake things up and make a difference in a diverse, unified team with no sharp elbows, we'd love to hear from you. At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.

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