Senior Accountant

Join Vanguard’s Corporate Accounting Operations (CAO) team as a Senior Accountant and play a critical role in how the firm records, analyzes, and reports its global expenses.

This position sits on Vanguard’s Global Expense team, a high‑impact group responsible for ensuring expenses across multiple financial statement line items are accurately recorded in compliance with U.S. GAAP and international accounting standards. The team’s work directly supports external financial and regulatory reporting, tax reporting, and internal evaluation of business performance. In this role, you’ll partner closely with stakeholders across the business to understand complex transactions, assess accounting implications, and translate activity into clear, supportable financial results. You’ll be a key contributor to month‑end close, strong internal controls, and meaningful analysis of business performance, helping ensure Vanguard’s financial statements are accurate, transparent, and decision‑ready.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced accountant who enjoys combining technical accounting, cross‑functional collaboration, and analytical problem‑solving in a highly respected, mission‑driven organization.

Responsibilities:

• Execute all corporate accounting close activities for assigned functional areas. Prepare monthly general ledger account reconciliations.
• Be responsible for processes around analysis of domestic and international business operations and obligations to ensure accurate recording of financial position. Assist in the preparation and communication of monthly financial results to management.
• Identify issues independently. Lead efforts to research issues, develop recommendations, resolve complex issues, and implement changes.
• Design, recommend, and implement internal control procedures that ensure proper recording and reporting of financial position and prevent significant errors in accounting records.
• Support external auditors during annual audit.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of three years’ related business experience. Financial accounting experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Finance or Accounting degree preferred.
• CPA preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.