- Employee focussed organisation
- Central West Suburb
- Autonomous role with plenty of variety
Financial Accountant
Are you a technically strong and detail-focused accounting professional looking for a broad, hands-on role? We are seeking an experienced Financial Accountant to support our finance function across financial reporting, compliance, systems administration, and operational accounting activities.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working across both technical and transactional finance, with exposure to reporting, tax, lease accounting, ERP administration, and business partnering across operations.
About the Role
As the Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting the month-end close process, statutory reporting, tax compliance, lease and fixed asset accounting, and finance systems administration. You will also work closely with accounts payable, supply teams, and other stakeholders to ensure accurate financial processing and reporting across the business.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting and Month-End
- Prepare and post month-end journals and assist with month-end close
- Complete monthly general ledger reconciliations
- Prepare draft annual and interim IFRS reports for non-public simplified disclosure entities
- Perform simple consolidations and prepare cash flow statements
- Reconcile sales revenue to invoicing
- Calculate and prepare intercompany recharges
Tax and Compliance
- Support external tax advisors with annual FBT calculations
- Prepare and/or review monthly BAS returns, including GST, PAYG, Fuel Tax Credit, Withholding Tax, and GST on salary sacrificing
- Complete and submit ABS surveys
Lease, Fixed Asset, and Finance Accounting
- Manage AASB16 lease accounting
- Account for asset-based finance arrangements including capex loans, leases, and hire purchase agreements
- Ensure accurate treatment of GST, repayment allocations, and related accounting entries
- Capitalise fixed assets, run depreciation, and process disposals
Procure-to-Pay and Operational Finance Support
- Assist with oversight and support of the Accounts Payable function
- Liaise with site supply teams to resolve purchase order and goods receipting issues
- Monitor the GRNI account and clear duplicate or aged items
- Raise purchase orders for head office expenditure
- Review invoices and purchase orders for correct GL coding and GST treatment
Systems Administration
- Maintain purchasing officer tables, customer master data, and the chart of accounts
- Create and close projects
- Capitalise assets and manage fixed asset processing
- Run foreign exchange revaluations
- Complete monthly period rollover
- Investigate and clear system errors
- Review and correct data quality issues
- Create user accounts and manage access permissions
Skills and Experience
- Proven experience in a Financial Accountant or similar role
- Strong understanding of month-end, reconciliations, and financial reporting
- Experience preparing IFRS statutory reports
- Knowledge of AASB16 lease accounting
- Experience with Australian tax compliance including BAS, GST, PAYG, and FBT
- Exposure to fixed assets, depreciation, disposals, and asset finance accounting
- Ability to work across both technical accounting and operational finance responsibilities
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving capability
- Effective communication skills with the ability to work across finance, operations, and external advisors
About You
You are hands-on, proactive, and comfortable managing competing priorities in a dynamic environment. You enjoy balancing reporting, compliance, systems, and operational finance responsibilities, and you bring a collaborative approach to working with both finance and operational teams.
Why Join Us?
This is a varied and rewarding opportunity for an experienced accountant who enjoys working across a broad finance remit and wants to play a key role in supporting both financial control and business operations.
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