Financial Accountant

About Your Role

You'll join a small finance and tax team, assisting with the month-end reconciliation cycle across multiple entities and currencies, while partially supporting our tax function with BAS, GST and ad hoc compliance work. It's a hands-on role with real exposure to multi-jurisdiction tax, ideal for someone who wants to build a career across both accounting and tax.

What You Do:

• Month-End Reconciliations & Financial Close. Execute Full-Cycle Reconciliations: Prepare balance sheet reconciliations—including bank, AR, AP, accruals, prepayments, GST, and intercompany accounts—strictly adhering to the month-end close calendar. Identify, investigate and resolve reconciling items promptly, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely closure of outstanding issues.

• Journal Entries & Variance Analysis: Post accurate general ledger journals backed 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 by providing timely, well-documented schedules.

• Expense Management & Policy Enforcement. Claims & Card Processing: Review and process employee expense claims and corporate card transactions against company policy, effectively identifying and resolving non-compliant submissions.

• Card Reconciliation & Documentation: Reconcile monthly corporate card statements while ensuring all GST and receipt documentation meets compliance standards.

• System administration: Responsible for day-to-day expense management system administration, including user setup, account deactivation, permission management, and general user support

• Process Optimisation: Identify recurring expense policy exceptions and recommend workflow or policy improvements to streamline future processing.

• Support of Tax Function. BAS & GST: Assist in 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 if and as needed.