Financial Accountant

Overview

This role joins a small finance and tax team, supporting month-end reconciliation and the financial close across multiple entities and currencies. The position also provides partial support to the tax function, including BAS, GST, and ad hoc compliance work. It is a hands-on role with exposure to multi-jurisdiction tax and opportunities to build experience across both accounting and tax.

Responsibilities

Month-End Reconciliations & Financial Close

• Execute full-cycle reconciliations, including balance sheet reconciliations for bank, AR, AP, accruals, prepayments, GST, and intercompany accounts.
• Adhere strictly to the month-end close calendar.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve reconciling items promptly to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely closure.

Journal Entries & Variance Analysis

• Post accurate general ledger journals supported by thorough working papers.
• Proactively investigate, document, and clear reconciling items.

Audit & Compliance Support

• Assist with external audits, mid-year reviews, and statutory compliance requests.
• Provide timely, well-documented schedules.

Expense Management & Policy Enforcement

• Review and process employee expense claims and corporate card transactions against company policy.
• Identify and resolve non-compliant submissions.
• Reconcile monthly corporate card statements.
• Ensure all GST and receipt documentation meets compliance standards.

System Administration

• Manage day-to-day expense management system administration, including:
  • User setup
  • Account deactivation
  • Permission management
  • General user support

Process Optimisation

• Identify recurring expense policy exceptions.
• Recommend workflow or policy improvements to streamline future processing.

Support of Tax Function

• BAS & GST: Assist with preparing quarterly BAS workpapers, including GST reconciliations from the GL to the BAS labels.
• Tax Journals: Assist with coding of tax-related journals.
• Ad hoc tax deliverables: Prepare supporting schedules and data extracts for tax returns, provisions, advisor queries, and ATO requests as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Commerce/Accounting
• 1–3 years in a finance-operations role, ideally in a multi-entity or multi-currency environment
• Working knowledge of a mid-market ERP/accounting system
• Strong Excel/Sheets skills (lookups, pivots, reconciliations)
• High attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• CA or CPA part-qualified
• Exposure to SaaS
• Experience with a cloud ERP/accounting system
• Healthcare, medical device, or regulated-industry experience

Compensation & Benefits

• Yearly L&D budgets, mentoring, hackathons, and secondments
• Transparent growth framework
• Work-from-home options and flexible hours
• Inclusive, thoughtful policies supporting families in every stage (fertility, parenthood, loss, and grandparenthood)

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.