Financial Reporting Specialist Sustainability

Location: Brisbane

About the role: Join Aurizon Australias largest rail freight operator and an ASX100-listed company in this newly created role at the intersection of financial reporting and sustainability.

The Financial Reporting Specialist Sustainability role is a rare opportunity in Brisbane to contribute meaningfully within a large ASX-listed corporate environment. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Aurizons compliance with the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) including AASB S1 and AASB S2 for FY26 onward. This role will see you manage complex statutory financial reporting processes while embedding robust high-quality sustainability reporting practices that meet investor regulatory and community expectations.

Youll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across the company to ensure the integrity of financial and non-financial disclosures drive audit readiness and strengthen our reporting capability as part of Aurizons broader decarbonisation and sustainability agenda.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the preparation of statutory financial and sustainability reports ensuring compliance with ASRS ASX and accounting standards.
• Provide technical accounting and sustainability reporting advice on complex issues and transactions.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to collect analyse and verify sustainability data and climate-related disclosures.
• Support the integration of sustainability metrics into corporate reporting aligning financial and Sustainability disclosures.
• Monitor and interpret new accounting and sustainability reporting requirements assessing and communicating their impact on Aurizons reporting.
• Develop and maintain policies frameworks and controls to ensure audit-ready decision-useful disclosures.
• Partner with auditors and assurance providers to coordinate financial and sustainability audits.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of financial and sustainability reporting systems and processes.

About you

Youre an experienced finance professional with strong technical accounting capability and a passion for sustainability reporting. Youre motivated by the opportunity to shape how an ASX-listed company communicates its progress toward a more sustainable future.

Youll bring:

• Bachelors degree in accounting Finance or related discipline (mandatory)
• CPA or CA qualification (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years experience in financial reporting ideally with Big 4 or ASX-listed exposure
• Demonstrated experience applying AASB S1 and S2 and emerging sustainability reporting frameworks (preferred)
• Excellent analytical communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to translate complex financial and sustainability data into clear meaningful insights

What we offer you:

At Aurizon we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.

Some of our benefits include:

• Development and growth opportunities.
• Access to mentoring and development programs.
• Discounts on selected health insurance funds personal travel gyms vehicles and retail brands.
• Parental leave program and super booster.

About Aurizon.

is Australias largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX year we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy connecting miners primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.

Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.

At Aurizon we are proud of our diverse collaborative creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic caring and inclusive work environment.

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