The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Group Accountant – Gas to join our Financial Control team on a permanent full-time basis. Office location is flexible, we also offer hybrid working arrangements.

Reporting to the Group Accounting Leader, you’ll play a key role in ensuring accuracy and efficiency across APA’s operational finance activities, with a focus on our East Coast gas infrastructure assets.

This role sits at the core of APA’s finance function, where you’ll be involved in the full month-end close process, posting journals, and ensuring the integrity of financial ledgers. You will work closely with the Finance Business Partnering team and Finance Assist to support decision-making, streamline processes, and deliver continuous improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete month-end close activities, including posting journals and reconciliations.

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability of APA’s financial records and processes.

• Analyse financial data to provide insights that support decision-making.

• Work closely with Finance Assist and Business Partnering teams to streamline financial operations.

• Identify bottlenecks in processes and implement efficiencies to enable earlier month-end close.

• Support ongoing improvements in financial control, consolidation, and automation.

Your background

• CA/CPA qualified (or near completion).

• Solid grounding in financial accounting, ideally gained in a Big 4 or large corporate environment.

• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate across teams.

• Experience with Workday, Blackline, or similar systems advantageous, but not essential.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. Role Reference Number: JR5012

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.