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SalaryWe're looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our Global Finance team located in Melbourne. This is an exciting opportunity to support the production of complete and accurate results for GHD Group, its subsidiaries, and the preparation of high quality financial reporting.The Senior Financial Accountant will be responsible for evaluating complex, judgmental or one-off accounting items; completing the monthly close and consolidation of financial results for the group; understanding material balance sheet movements; production of financial statements for GHD Group Ltd and key subsidiaries; and supporting local Finance teams with subsidiary account preparation.Working with an energetic and high performing team, you will:
- Complete group month-end close and consolidation
- Prepare monthly analytical review to understand and explain key movements linked to business or operational drivers
- Deliver global statutory reporting, ensuring preparation of financial statements are fully compliant with accounting standards, legislative and other requirements.
- Complete production of high quality GHD Group and key operating subsidiary accounts, including supporting explanatory notes, audit schedules and workpapers.
- Support the transition the production of local subsidiary accounts back to country Finance teams, ensuring they are supported with adequate training and oversight from the centre.
- Evaluate and develop recommendations on complex and non-standard accounting matters, considering all relevant technical, operational and commercial factors.
- Provide expert recommendations and evaluate the impact of new accounting standards and reporting requirements for the group, updating and communicating process changes that ensue.
- Support the development of the global Finance function through coaching and collaborating with Finance team members from across GHD.
- Professional accounting qualifications equivalent to CPA or Chartered Accountant.
- Considerable experience in similar Finance roles, either with experience in a complex matrix or multinational organisation or audit firm with international client base.
- Established communication, interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Well organised, with an ability to plan and prioritise.
- Demonstrated technical, analytical and problem-solving skills applied with an eye for detail.
- Advanced skills in excel and microsoft office suite.
- Experience using a large-scale ERP (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Hyperion) and BI reporting tools
Contact Alan Field, Talent Acquisition Business Partner
Ph +61 2 4081 3202GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities.GHD embraces hybrid work arrangements to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where GHD people can thrive, this supports the diverse needs of our workforce while balancing the benefits of remote working with the value of face-to-face collaboration in the office.We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.#LI-AF1About Us: Come together and make a meaningful impact.We bring our people together to create something bigger and solve some of the world's most complex problems. Come and experience the power of commitment and see strategy and ideas come to life when you join GHD.Let's drive real change.Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.That's why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.See where your commitment could take you.
That's the #PowerOfCommitmentWho we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
