Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Oversight and management of Senior Accountants with a strong focus on leadership and team development.
Business partnering with the Regional Financial Controller on an ongoing daily basis.
Be the subject matter expert on Reporting, IFRS, controls and standardised processes for the region.
Drive process improvements aligned with the needs of the Group.
Work with the regional finance team to develop and implement a strategy for the delivery of an effective and efficient Shared Services model that supports the company�s planned growth strategy.
Ensure adherence to the internal control�s framework, provide information to internal audit and make recommendations for process improvements that are robust, efficient and improve controls.
Submission of monthly/quarterly/annual indirect tax (includes payroll taxes), annual workcover returns and monthly statistic returns.
Accounting for corporate taxes including deferred tax.
Working with the Senior Accountants to manage and deliver the month end close for the assigned region. This task will involve following a tight month end process spanning pre and post month end.
Preparation of month end reporting packs including commentary on variances to targets, forecast and prior years.
Providing weekly insight to the regional team on the job costing, areas of focus and job corrections.
Develop and enhance reporting of month end results, insights and KPIs by leveraging data and PowerBI. This can extend to weekly and daily reporting of job profitability.
Review, preparation and delivery of monthly balance sheet reconciliations ensuring compliance with internal framework of controls and IFRS.
Supporting day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying and classifying accounts payable data. The role requires business partnering with the AP teams within the Shared Services Centre.
Business partnering with the AP Supervisor on the status of vendor and intercompany reconciliations, understand ageing and status of older items, apply commentary to reconciliations and action adjustments required to balance month end intercompany accounts.
Where required, communicate all queries with vendors and other stakeholders timely.
Supporting the regional annual and interim audits, together with the internal auditing requirements.
Posting payroll information to the finance system and reconciling payroll.
Supporting the Regional Financial Controller with the fortnightly payroll process.
Processing general journals as required to support the month end process.
Maintaining the Fixed asset register, including additions, disposal and depreciation.
Maintaining leases schedules to comply with IFRS16.
Understanding expense accounts and cost centres for appropriate allocations
Supporting the Regional Financial Controller with the annual budgets, weekly and quarterly forecasting.
Assist with any other adhoc administrative responsibilities as requested by your line manager.
Evaluate and conduct performance appraisals of supervised staff.
Be responsible for team scheduling, workforce planning, hiring and training staff on new and improved processes and systems and performance management.
