Financial Accountant - Financial Control

Overview

Challenge yourself in a fast paced accounting role within the Jetstar Financial Control team. Enjoy staff travel benefits from day one. 15 Month Fixed Term opportunity based at our Head office in Collingwood.

Love travel and passionate about all things aviation? You're in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to take off at work, and in life. As a team, we're lucky we get to do both for a living – and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we're all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky's the limit.

Are you a qualified accountant with a passion for financial integrity and capital expenditure (CAPEX) accounting and reporting? Jetstar is looking for a Financial Accountant to join our Financial Control team and support our fast-paced, high-performing environment.

Reporting to the Financial Control Finance Manager, this role is primarily accountable for the preparation, delivery, and finalisation of tax, statutory, and regulatory reporting requirements for the Jetstar business. Ensuring compliance, accuracy, and timeliness in these critical reporting and payment obligations is the core focus of the position.

In addition to these responsibilities, the role provides financial control oversight of operating costs across Jetstar Australia & New Zealand, specifically in the following areas : Information Technology, Marketing, Digital, and Call Centre.

Key responsibilities include :

• Accurate and timely delivery of tax requirements across Australia and all foreign jurisdictions : FBT, GST, Withholding Tax, Consumption Tax, VAT Corporate Tax
• Accurate and timely delivery of financial statement requirements in Australia and wholly owned entities of the Jetstar Group.
• Supporting internal and external audits as required
• System administrator for various Finance processes to ensure compliance to policy e.g. Corporate Credit Cards, Financial Delegations, Online Banking and others as required
• Provide accurate and timely monthly reporting on operational costs including Group balance sheet reporting.
• Ensure result reflects commercial arrangements and comply with external reporting requirements.
• Work with FP&A in monitoring actual performance vs forecast / budget
• Providing audit support and partnering with internal / external stakeholders
• Reviewing outsourced provider outputs related to CAPEX

What you\'ll bring :

Applications close : Wednesday 25 February 2026

Your Life At Jetstar Is Unlike Any Other.

Put the craft in aircraft : There\'s a new fleet of A321LR NEO\'s waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our teams get exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group\'s A320 / 1, B787 and A321 Freighters.

Live the travel dream : You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.

Make work feel like a holiday : Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.

There\'s a place for everyone at Jetstar : For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We\'re Jetstar. Let\'s takeoff together.

We can\'t wait to hear from you. Apply now.

About us

We\'re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we\'ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320 / 21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

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