Financial Accountant
Onshore applicants only
Visa sponsorship
Accounting & Finance · Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Contract · $90,000 - $120,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored · Applicants: Onshore applicants only
If you have been thinking about kerja luar negara in finance, here is a practical one to consider. An established digital marketplace business in Melbourne, growing quickly within Australia's digital platform and technology space, wants a Financial Accountant. It is a temporary role at the start, arranged so that it can become permanent full-time employment through a defined pathway.
Your reporting line goes to the Financial Controller, and you keep daily operations in sync with the CFO. You will be responsible for month-end, a reliable balance sheet and statutory compliance across the group's entities. An assistant accountant deals with routine transactions, and your next step each day is reviewing the core ledgers and supporting cash and budget routines. The work favours sound accounting basics and clean reporting over complex commercial models.
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Key Responsibilities
- Carry out end-to-end month-end and period-end close in Xero for the group's operating entities, with journals, balance sheet reconciliations and consolidated trial balances
- Manage statutory and regulatory tax compliance for all entities, including BAS/GST lodgements, payroll tax reconciliations, leave provisions and FBT returns, in cooperation with external tax advisors
- Supervise the offshore Assistant Accountant, reviewing daily processing, invoice entry, receivables follow-ups and payroll runs
- Handle intercompany loan accounts, recharges and eliminations between subsidiaries, so the balance sheets stay audit-ready
- Support FP&A by keeping the short-term cash flow tracker updated, comparing actual spending with the budget and compiling data for annual budget roll-forwards, while using the group's enterprise AI and automation platforms to simplify recurring reconciliations and helping executives with ad-hoc schedules on group structuring and entity setups
Requirements & Eligibility
- A tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance or Commerce, with CA/CPA status or an equivalent international qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA that is finished or still underway
- Demonstrated experience in financial accounting, month-end ledger ownership and statutory compliance in Australia or a comparable jurisdiction
- Working Holiday Visa (subclass 417 or 462) holders with full Australian work rights are strongly encouraged to apply
- Strong personal accountability, high attention to detail and the adaptability to keep work structured in a dynamic scale-up, along with clear, concise written and verbal communication and the confidence to work directly with executive stakeholders
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