Technical Accountant, Transaction Advisory

About the role

The Commodities and Global Markets Financial Control team supports a diverse business engaged in commodity trading, physical and logistics services, risk management, and financing activities. This role provides technical accounting leadership that will translate complex commercial opportunities into clear, well-supported, and audit-ready accounting outcomes.

Working closely with stakeholders across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Commercial, Risk, and Operations, you will apply deep technical expertise to influence business decisions, support strategic transactions, and maintain high-quality financial reporting within a strong control environment.

Reporting to the Regional Head of Transaction Advisory within Commodities and Global Markets Financial Control, you will support some of the firm's most complex and strategically significant transactions and business initiatives. You will provide technical accounting advice on transactions, financing arrangements, acquisitions, restructurings, new products, and other commercial initiatives, helping to shape business outcomes while ensuring accurate financial reporting and robust governance.

• Assess accounting, reporting, disclosure, and control implications, translating complex commercial arrangements into audit-ready accounting outcomes.
• Help the business make informed decisions with confidence by evaluating accounting outcomes under relevant frameworks (revenue recognition, financial instruments, derivatives, leases, customer contracts, consolidation, and business combinations).
• Implement accounting positions and maintain a strong control environment by ensuring conclusions are appropriately documented, reviewed, and supported.
• Act as a trusted technical accounting adviser: research complex accounting matters, review commercial and financing agreements, and prepare technical accounting papers.
• Work with auditors and advisors to support accounting positions and resolve technical accounting issues.
• Monitor emerging accounting standards and regulatory developments, assess their impact on the business, and support the ongoing development of accounting policies and guidance.
• Promote consistency, compliance, and strong financial governance across the organisation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• CPA, CA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification (ideal but not required).
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles related to:
  • Revenue Recognition
  • Financial Instruments
  • Derivatives
  • Lease Accounting
  • Customer Contracts
  • Consolidation and Business Combinations
• Experience researching and documenting technical accounting positions with strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities for analysing complex agreements, business structures, valuation reports, and financial models.
• Ability to explain complex accounting concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to influence and collaborate effectively across functions and levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with IFRS, including preparation of technical accounting memos under IFRS.
• Exposure to financing transactions, capital markets activities, or structured transactions.
• Experience working with external auditors and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of SEC, public company, or multinational reporting environments.

Benefits

Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
• 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers.
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
• Benefits and initiatives to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing, such as:
  • Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Health savings account and dependent day care savings account.
  • Life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans.
  • 401(k) and short/long-term disability.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services.
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription.
• Recognition and service awards.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
• Reimbursement for work-from-home equipment.

About the Team

Financial Management, People and Engagement (FPE) provides a single interface for Macquarie’s businesses across key areas of people, strategy, communications, and financial management. Comprising two pillars—Financial Management, and People and Engagement—it is responsible for managing the Group’s financial, tax, and treasury activities and strategic priorities, fostering culture through people and community engagement strategies, and engaging with stakeholders to protect and promote Macquarie’s reputation globally.

Macquarie is a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value, bringing your insights and expertise to the task at hand while feeling supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.