We’ve been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we’ve been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand’s first choice for poultry.
Your opportunity to join our Finance team in North Ryde!
As the Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a crucial role within our Finance team, supporting the Group Finance Manager whilst overseeing a small team.
This role is responsible for providing high quality, accurate and timely financial accounting support to ensure compliance, enhance decision making and achieve business goals. A key focus of this role will be to apply a challenging mindset with a view to improve and enhance processes and controls.
This is a great opportunity for someone from a Big 4 background looking to make their first move into a commercial environment, working for an iconic, ASX-listed, FMCG business!
Key responsibilities:
- Assist with preparation of annual and half-yearly financial reports
- Analyse the impact of new accounting standards and presenting technical accounting papers
- AASB 16 Leases register management
- Prepare weekly/monthly/ad-hoc journal entries to ensure accuracy and completeness of the P&L and Balance Sheet
- Perform and oversee month-end processes with a focus on ensuring the accuracy of all reconciliations
- Prepare assigned sections of monthly board pack slides
- Forecasting and budgeting for group expense
- Conduct analysis of the general ledger on a monthly or ad-hoc basis, identifying variances against budget (or forecast) and last year and providing commentary explaining material variances.
- Prepare reports, reconciliations and supporting schedules for external audit team
- Lead, develop and mentor small team of financial accountants
- Coordinate and partner with finance and non-finance stakeholders as required
- Lead and drive process improvements across the business
- Implement and deliver an effective control environment, through the cascade of group policies and procedures
Key requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance / accounting
- CPA/ CA or equivalent qualification
- Big 4 and ASX listed experience will be highly advantageous
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing direct reports
- Leases and Fix asset accounting knowledge
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships with a wide stakeholder group to gather inputs and insights on business performance
- High resilience and ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities
- Analytical thinker with strong problem solving and strong attention to detail
- High learning agility, self-learner, with an ability to work in ambiguous environments
- High personal accountability with an ability to meet deadlines and manage fluctuating work demands
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that’s… Always Good.
