Senior Manager- Accounting

📍 Location: Sydney

📅 Job Type: Permanent / full-time

🏢 Company: Omni Bridgeway

About Omni Bridgeway: 

Omni Bridgeway is a global leader in litigation finance and risk management, providing innovative solutions that enable businesses, law firms, and individuals to pursue justice and accountability. As an ASX-listed company with over 35 years of experience, we help claimants overcome financial barriers to legal action, ensuring fair access to redress in complex disputes—including large-scale group actions against corporate misconduct and institutional wrongdoing.

About the Role:

As the Senior Manager – Accounting, you will provide oversight and liase between the Group Accounting and Fund Accounting functions, ensuring consistent standards, high-quality outputs, and strong controls across the accounting platform. You will be responsible for the execution of the financial control strategy, system controls and governance across Omni Bridgeway.

Key Responsibilities:

The role requires you to undertake a broad range of duties, including:

Functional Leadership

• Lead and coordinate Finance teams, building technical capability and a high-accountability culture
• Own month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Maintain consistent accounting policies and methodologies across the Group
• Support ASX reporting deliverables, including results announcements and market releases
• Deliver board reporting with clear financial narratives and performance analysis

Quality & Controls

• Set and monitor accounting KPIs, NAV quality standards and close timeliness
• Drive statutory reporting outputs and ensure compliance with governance requirements
• Provide input to the Global Financial Controller on financial control strategy

Operating Model & Systems

• Execute and continuously improve the accounting operating model and workflows
• Act as a key system owner for Workday Financials, overseeing configuration, data integrity and ongoing optimisation
• Ensure the accounting platform scales effectively as funds and entities grow
• Serve as day-to-day lead for external audit and support Audit Committee preparation

What We’re Looking For:

We're looking for a technically strong accounting leader who brings both rigour and commercial acumen — someone who thrives in a complex, fast-paced environment and takes genuine ownership of financial control and team performance.

You'll also bring:

• CA/CPA qualified with substantial post-qualification experience in a senior accounting role
• Deep technical accounting knowledge across ASX reporting and statutory financial statements
• Proven experience in fund accounting, group consolidations and financial close
• Hands-on Workday Financials experience, including system administration or optimisation
• A track record of coaching or managing other team members
• Clear, confident communication with senior stakeholders
• A continuous improvement mindset with experience in automation and process efficiency
• Comfortable navigating a complex, multi-entity, global business
• Experience supporting external audit and governance committee preparation is highly regarded

Why Join Omni Bridgeway?

🌍 Be part of a global leader in litigation finance and legal innovation

💡 Collaborate with top-tier professionals and external consultants

🏆 A dynamic, fast-moving environment that values expertise and initiative

👧‍ Flexible working arrangements with a strong family-friendly focus

Ready to make an impact? Apply today by submitting your CV and cover letter.

Omni Bridgeway is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive workplace.