Financial Accountant

Job Brief
Our client is looking for a hands on Financial Accountant to take ownership of audit and tax deliverables through a complex reporting period, with a secondary focus on technical accounting and finance process improvement.

About Our Client
Our client is a large, multi entity group with an active acquisition strategy that adds ongoing complexity to its finance function. The finance team operates in a fast moving environment where priorities shift and the work is rarely routine, offering broad exposure to audit, tax, and technical accounting.

Responsibilities

• Support the year end statutory audit process end to end, including liaising with auditors, preparing audit files, and tracking open items through to closure
• Assist with company tax return preparation, supporting workpapers and reconciliations, including effective tax rate and deferred tax considerations
• Apply AASB standards to day to day accounting entries, reconciliations, and disclosures, and identify when a transaction requires a technical accounting position
• Work across areas such as leases, employee benefits, provisions, and equity or share based arrangements, escalating where further research or specialist input is needed
• Contribute to process improvement and optimisation initiatives by adapting existing trackers, templates, and models for new use cases
• Build financial models where useful, from cash flow forecasts to scenario analysis, though this sits alongside rather than ahead of the audit and tax workload

Requirements

• CA or CPA qualified, or in the final stages, with a background in external audit or a mix of audit and industry
• 3 to 6 years experience including exposure to tax return preparation or review and statutory audit processes
• Solid working knowledge of AASB standards with demonstrated ability to apply them practically in a live accounting environment
• Comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a fast changing, less structured environment
• Experience in a multi entity or group structure environment highly regarded
• Strong written communication, able to summarise technical positions clearly for non technical stakeholders
• Available at short notice

What's on Offer
A technically rich role with genuine ownership over audit and tax delivery during a critical reporting period. Clear deliverables and timelines despite the pace of the environment. Strong potential to convert to a permanent position once the initial period is complete. On site parking and a metro station a short walk from the office.

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