Taxation and Treasury Accountant

ARE YOU A TRUSTED TAX AND TREASURY SPECIALIST?

About You

You’re a detail-driven accounting professional who thrives on accuracy, compliance, and adding real value through expert advice. With strong experience across GST, FBT and Payroll Tax, you confidently manage end-to-end tax obligations— from consolidation and lodgement through to investigation and reconciliation—always meeting statutory deadlines and internal timeframes. You’re comfortable providing clear, specialist taxation advice to managers and colleagues, and you enjoy digging into the detail to ensure figures are correct and defensible. Your expertise extends to maintaining investment and loan registers, monitoring term deposits and interest performance, and supporting the preparation of statutory and financial reports while working collaboratively with internal and external auditors. Highly organised and controls-focused, you understand the importance of robust financial governance and information security, and you’re flexible and team-oriented, ready to support broader corporate accounting activities as required.

The Team

Toowoomba Regional Council’s Corporate Accounting team is driven by integrity and excellence and is responsible for providing professional accounting services to Council.  Our team is seeking an accountant to be part of the financial reporting process at Council.  This is an exciting opportunity to hone your taxation and treasury accounting skills in a values based team within local government.

About the position

The Taxation and Treasury Accountant is responsible for providing timely and effective information, advice and support in relation to taxation, investment and borrowings.

• This is a permanent full-time position based in the Toowoomba CBD.
• The annual salary range for this position is $98,715.48 - $102,867.25 gross per annum, plus 17.5% annual leave loading and up to 12.65% superannuation.
• Enjoy work/life balance with a nine (9) day fortnight and access to banked leave.
• Professional development and learning opportunities.
• Salary sacrificing opportunities to boost your superannuation.
• Corporate discounts on selected private health insurance.
• Active social club – TRC Employee’s Association.
• Access to the Fitness Passport Program - providing access to a wide range of local health, fitness, and leisure facilities with one affordable membership.
• Employee Assistance Program – free 24 hour nationwide confidential personal or work-related counselling services for employees and their families.
• A range of progressive health and wellbeing services.

How to be successful in this position

• Degree in Accounting, Commerce or Business related discipline with relevant experience, or substantial experience, expertise and competence enabling performance of all required duties.
• Post-graduate qualifications would be advantageous.
• Comprehensive knowledge of statutory requirements and legislation relevant to taxation activities, in particular GST, FBT and Payroll Tax.
• Strong time management, planning and judgement skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Demonstrated accountability.

How to apply

For full details of this position, please ensure you download the Position Description, which provides the position success criteria. 

Please provide your current Resume and ensure you answer all of the application questions, providing scenarios from your work history to demonstrate your relevant experience, abilities, knowledge, and personal qualities. Responses that indicate “Refer to my resume” are not sufficient.

The preferred candidate will be required to undertake a Criminal History Check and a pre-employment medical assessment to assess their ability to perform the genuine occupational requirements of the position.

Please note to have your application considered, ensure that you have followed the instructions outlined above.

Visit our website www.tr.qld.gov.au/jobs for information on how to apply for jobs at Toowoomba Regional Council.  Applicants are encouraged to apply online.

For further information

Please contact Mary-Lou Coorey, Principal Corporate Accountant on (07) •••• •655 within business hours.

Closing date

The closing date for applications is Sunday 23 August 2026 at 11.59pm.

PLEASE NOTE: Our system will be unavailable to submit applications from 7:00pm, Friday 14 August – 7:00am, Sunday 16 August 2026.

About Council

The Toowoomba Region is about rich traditions and bold ambitions. Our long and proud agricultural history has evolved Toowoomba into Australia’s second largest inland city supporting diverse townships in the Council area and acting as a service centre for South West Qld and North West NSW.  The region is boldly forging new opportunities around the Surat Basin resource sector, education, health, transport, and massive infrastructure investments.  Growth hasn’t come at the expense of liveability though, with Toowoomba twice voted in the top 5 most family friendly cities in Australia.

Toowoomba Regional Council services a regional population of 178,500 and employs a team of approximately 1,600 staff, dedicated and passionate about delivering excellent customer service to the community, residents, and visitors throughout the region.  We recognise that our success depends upon attracting and retaining skilled and talented staff and offer a wide variety of interesting challenges and opportunities to develop your career.

Council does not accept unsolicited agency approaches or applications for this or any other vacancy. No response will be provided.