Senior Financial Accountant (contractor)

The Senior Financial Accountant (contractor-Sydney based) works as part of the Finance department. Primarily the role is responsible to support Finance Manager for project assisting intercompany reconciliation legacies process.

Length of contract: 1 year

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business/Commerce degree.

• Holder or holder- in progress of Chartered Accountancy or Certified Practising Accountant qualified.

• At the minimum: 3-4 years’ experience in financial/accounting reporting role or big 4/mid-tier audit experience.

• Proficient with in working with large datasets and in the accounts reconciliation process including compiling underlying information from accounting and other systems and analysing reconciling items.

• Advanced with excel is required including the use of Copilot

• Strong attention to detail, organized and structured.

• Effective communicator with internal and external stakeholders.

• An independent worker and team player.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Proven time management skills and ability to meet deadlines

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a core team member for the Intercompany Reconciliation Project. Establish the templates, working instructions, and training framework.

• Possesses extensive knowledge of both legacy and current intercompany data, including historical issues, reconciliations, and entity-specific nuances.

• Data, templates and reports preparation and validation to support reconciliation activities.

• Prepares step by step instructions and coaching/daily check in for the support team.

• Drives and prepares the data reconciliations, consolidates the work delivered by counterparts in the team and ensures the consolidated data is "clean" and ready for the next milestone.

• Supports the identification, investigation, and resolution of differences/mismatches between entities.

• Plays a key role in the design of IC reconciliation and reporting in the future state.

• Support other finance transformation and process improvement initiatives (including automation)