What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Reporting Senior Manager position at Appen?
About the Role
The principal technical accounting resource within the Group, owning the Group’s financial accounting and external reporting end-to-end. A key execution partner to the Group Financial Controller, supporting accountability to the Audit & Risk Committee, Board, and regulatory bodies. Success requires deep expertise in ASX external reporting, complex technical accounting, and tax-aware financial statement preparation.
- Lead Group consolidation and the preparation of half-year and full-year consolidated financial statements under AASB/IFRS, across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions and currencies.
- Assist with end-to-end preparation and lodgement of ASX statutory reporting (Appendix 4D/4E, Annual Report, Directors’ Report, Remuneration Report)
- Manage the external audit relationship at Group and subsidiary level, own local statutory audits across Philippines, India, UK, Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong.
- Provide technical accounting guidance on complex transactions (AASB 15/16/2/3), lead adoption of new standards (incl. IFRS 18) and own Group tax accounting under IAS 12/AASB 112 including transfer pricing.
- Set Group accounting policies and strengthen the internal control framework over financial reporting (ICFR/SOX-equivalent), CAPEX governance and divisional OPEX controls.
- Support the Group Financial Controller with Audit & Risk Committee papers, presentations and technical accounting briefings.
- Build and lead a high-performing offshore accounting team, and drive process and systems improvement across finance — AI, Workday, consolidation tools and BI platforms.
- 8–10 years in financial reporting, with 3 years in a senior or leadership role.
- Extensive IFRS/AASB experience and group consolidation in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
- Hands-on ASX statutory reporting in a publicly listed company (or Big 4 with industry follow-on).
- Tax-aware financial reporting expertise (IAS 12/AASB 112) with practical transfer pricing exposure in a multinational setting.
- Proven leadership of high-performing teams, including offshore.
- US GAAP or dual-reporting experience a plus.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.
You’ll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You’ll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.
About Appen
Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.
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