Key Responsibilities:
General Ledger & Month-End
- Maintain and improve accounting policies and procedures in line with applicable accounting standards and reporting requirements.
- Coordinate month-end close activities and improve the timeliness and quality of financial close.
- Review accounting treatments and address issues arising from reporting requirements or audit adjustments.
- Analyse month-on-month movements and prepare regular accounting issue reports.
- Drive greater consistency and standardisation across accounting processes.
Financial & Consolidated Reporting
- Coordinate consolidated financial reporting across relevant group entities.
- Prepare and review financial reports for management and external reporting purposes.
- Support periodic and annual audit requirements relating to consolidated financial statements.
- Analyse financial movements and provide explanations to management and group stakeholders.
- Improve the accuracy, consistency and timeliness of financial reporting.
Accounting Standards & Process Improvement
- Review existing accounting workflows and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Standardise accounting treatments and processes across different entities and business units.
- Improve reporting data quality and reduce recurring accounting issues.
- Support implementation of consistent accounting controls and operating standards.
Finance Systems Integration
- Support integration between accounting systems and relevant business systems.
- Improve the consistency and timeliness of accounting data flowing from operational platforms.
- Coordinate finance-system integration across platforms including OA, operational and contract-management systems.
- Support the development of shared accounting processes to improve efficiency.
- Contribute to automation of consolidated financial reporting and reduction of manual processing.
Team Capability & Collaboration
- Support the development of accounting capability across head-office and regional finance teams.
- Improve collaboration between central and regional accounting functions.
- Provide accounting guidance and support to relevant finance stakeholders.
- Contribute to maintaining consistent accounting standards and practices across the organisation.
Key Requirements:
- Strong experience in general ledger accounting, month-end close and financial reporting.
- Strong knowledge of accounting standards and financial reporting requirements.
- Experience preparing or reviewing consolidated financial statements.
- Experience supporting external audits and resolving audit adjustments.
- Strong financial analysis and variance-analysis capability.
- Experience improving accounting processes and standardising financial workflows.
- Exposure to finance systems integration, shared services or accounting automation would be highly regarded.
- Strong attention to detail with a focus on reporting accuracy and close deadlines.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to work across multiple entities or business units in a complex organisation.
- Experience working within a Chinese-headquartered or Chinese-invested corporate environment would be highly regarded.
Email tammy.chiu@brilliantalent.com.au or contact (+61) 04 6739 700 to discuss this role further.