Associate – Accounting Advisory

Job Description:

Overview:

We don’t simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you — offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you've been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day. 

Chatham’s Hedge Accounting Practice is a thought leader in our industry. Our team members advise clients on the design and implementation of hedge accounting strategies on high-profile hedging transactions. We consult on a high volume of transactions annually, each with its own set of facts and circumstances, which provides our team members with tremendous opportunity to learn quickly. We combine financial risk management expertise, technical accounting advice, operational support and technology to help clients achieve effective economic and financial reporting outcomes. Often our consulting engagements lead to direct contact with our clients’ auditors and regulators, which adds another nuance to the consulting process. We also engage with accounting standard setters as they work to change the hedge accounting guidance under US GAAP and IFRS.

The volume and variety of transactions we support provide significant opportunities to develop quickly. You will work alongside experienced hedge accountants, derivatives specialists and financial risk advisers in Australia and across Chatham’s global offices.

In this role you will primarily serve Chatham’s APAC hedge accounting clients: 

• Provide consultation to clients at the highest levels of accounting and finance in their organizations
• Manage a client portfolio providing advice on hedging strategies, running and analyzing effectiveness tests, drafting hedge designation memos, creating inputs for future journal entries, and providing monthly reporting
• Serve as a subject matter expert who your clients and colleagues seek for guidance, regularly helping clients assess the financial statements impact of proposed hedging strategies before execution
• Develop an excellent understanding of hedge accounting and the underlying economics of interest rate, foreign currency and commodities hedging through regular interaction with Chatham’s traders
• Contribute to cutting-edge research in one of the most complex and still-evolving areas of accounting
• Facilitate the generation of periodic accounting deliverables for clients using our in-house built technology platform – the Hedge Accounting team provides derivative fair values, journal entries, effectiveness tests, disclosure support and other deliverables to a number of companies during month and quarter-ends.  

Your impact:

One of Chatham’s purposes is to have an impact on our clients. In this role, you will work with treasurers, CFOs, controllers, partners, and audit firms. This role has a major client service/consulting component. Members of the team will have the opportunity to provide answers to client questions around complex topics, conduct research, have discussions with key personnel, and truly add value to their clients’ needs. Another Chatham purpose is to have an impact on our employees. You will have the opportunity to develop a specialization in this role — work with smart colleagues who are as invested in your success as they are in their own; learn about a lot of different industries in an environment that encourages asking questions; and develop in your role. 

Contributors to your success: 

• Australian citizens and permanent residents, or those with a valid Visa with permission to work are encouraged to apply
• A recognised professional accounting qualification, such as CA, CPA, ACA or an equivalent qualification
• 5 years’ total experience with 0 to 3 years of post-qualified experience in financial reporting, auditing or technical accounting advisory
• Good working knowledge of IFRS, particularly IFRS 9
• A passion and willingness to learn complex economic and accounting strategies, technical accounting research, and reading available guidance
• A desire to thrill clients — the client service part of accounting is fulfilling for you, and you’d like to carry your client-service orientation into this next opportunity
• Enjoyment for working as part of a team and having camaraderie with your colleagues
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Ability and desire to use Chatham-approved AI tools responsibly to improve research, analysis, drafting and workflow efficiency, while applying appropriate professional judgement and complying with confidentiality, data security and quality-control requirements
• Thoroughness and attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

About Chatham Financial:

Chatham Financial is the leading independent capital markets advisor, delivering an integrated blend of expert advice and powerful technology to help you reduce risk and seize opportunity. With decades of capital markets strategy, execution, monitoring, and performance expertise, we serve as an unwavering advocate for your best interests and your innovation partner. Our technology platform unifies data across assets, debt, and derivatives, giving you unmatched agility, transparency, and insight.

It’s clear ahead.

Our commitment is to carry that light forward in every partnership, every solution, and every market we serve.

We help guide the way—giving clients the insight and momentum to move forward with confidence, no matter what lies ahead.