Senior Accountant

The Company

We are a newly independent business, recently separated from a larger diversified international group as part of a strategic demerger. While the structure is new, the business is not; we have a proven operating history, strong revenues and an established platform built over time. The separation has sharpened our focus on what we do best. With a clearer strategy and fewer competing priorities, decision making is faster, accountability is tighter and the leadership team is aligned around one agenda, building a market leading platform in our category.

As part of this next chapter, our head office is relocating from Perth to Western Sydney. The move reflects where we want our future leadership capability to sit and how we plan to support the next phase of growth. We are entering a period of rapid but disciplined expansion, with ambitious yet achievable plans to scale materially over the next three to five years.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to take genuine ownership of our balance sheet as we step into this next chapter.

You will report directly to our Group Head of Finance, in a finance function we are rebuilding to match the size we have grown into. You will own the integrity of our general ledger and balance sheet, work alongside our reconciliations team to lift the standard of the process rather than just the output, and lead the clearing of legacy items, putting controls in place so they stay cleared. Alongside that sits a real continuous improvement brief: find the manual work, automate it, document it and make it stick.

Our finance function has historically been seen as a service desk rather than a partner to the business. Changing that along with where we are based and is part of the job, and our appetite for it is genuine. We have already made the same shift work elsewhere in the group.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Owning and maintaining the integrity of our general ledger and balance sheet

• Preparing and reviewing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, making sure every balance is fully supported

• Identifying, investigating and resolving historical accounting issues and unreconciled balances

• Supporting our month end, quarter end and annual close processes

• Preparing journals, accruals, provisions and account analyses

• Assisting with the preparation of management reports and financial statements

• Partnering closely with our reconciliations team to strengthen process and governance

• Taking ownership of clearing legacy balance sheet items and implementing controls that hold

• Making sure issues are resolved at source rather than corrected repeatedly downstream

• Supporting audit requests and keeping documentation audit ready

• Challenging our existing process to simplify, automate and remove duplication

• Leading and supporting our finance transformation initiatives

• Business partnering with managers across the wider business, translating the numbers for people who do not live in them

• Coaching junior members of the team and leading projects across the function

About You

You are a qualified accountant who has experience getting genuinely good at the technical work, and you are now looking for somewhere the work actually matters rather than somewhere it simply repeats. Complex balance sheet accounts do not intimidate you, and a messy reconciliation is a problem you quite enjoy pulling apart. You are the sort of person who says yes to a piece of work and then goes and figures out how, rather than waiting to be shown.

You will say what you think when it counts, you know which battles are worth having, and you can read a room well enough to bring people with you instead of leaving them behind. Public practice or commerce, it genuinely does not matter to us. What matters is that you can operate calmly while things are still changing around you, and that you want to grow into something bigger over the next few years.

Skills & Experience

To be effective in this role, you will likely bring:

• A degree in accounting, finance or commerce, and CA or CPA qualified or actively working towards completion

• Experinece in financial accounting or corporate finance

• Strong technical accounting knowledge and real depth in reconciliations

• Demonstrated experience managing complex balance sheet accounts

• Advanced Excel, strong analytical capability and a track record of improving process and controls

• Communication and stakeholder skills strong enough to hold your own outside the finance team

Exposure to ERP systems or finance system implementations, and any lean or process improvement background, will be well regarded though not essential.

What's On Offer

This is a seat with a genuine mandate to fix things rather than simply report on them, and the backing to do it. You will report directly to our Group Head of Finance with visibility to our CEO that is unusual at this level, and there is a clearly signposted path towards broader finance leadership for the right person in a group that promotes across divisions.

The role is based in our Western Sydney office five days a week, alongside the leadership team, with a competitive package aligned to your experience.

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If you want a balance sheet you can genuinely put your name to, and a business that will let you rebuild the process behind it, apply today.

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