Senior Financial Accountant

There’s something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

Save the Children and 54 reasons: A place where your purpose matters.

It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation– yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services - this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:

Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems.  In this full-time permanent role, you’ll work as a part of our Financial Accounting team in Melbourne to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Senior Financial Accountant plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s completing a balance sheet reconciliation or developing a new process improvement you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children in Australia, the Pacific and around the world. 

You will make a difference by:

·       Supporting the Financial Statement preparation and review for all legal entities to ensure successful completion of regulatory reporting requirements

·       Work closely with the Commercial Finance team to ensure end to end finance processes are efficient and effective and roles and responsibilities and deliverables (both ways) are clear, frequently reviewed, and improved

·       Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations

·       Identify and implement finance process improvement initiatives, including opportunities for automation, and ensure finance processes are well documented

A place to feel valued:

Your deep expertise in problem solving, a fast-paced working environment and well developed interpersonal skills is invaluable. We recognise your contribution and provide you the support to ensure you can bring your best, knowing here you have the space and opportunity to grow. Bringing your best every day, means:

·       Previous 3 to 4 years’ experience in a Big 4/ mid-tier accounting firm working in a fast-paced environment and to strict deadlines, preferably in external audit

·       Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills

·       High levels of attention to detail and quality

·       Highly developed relationship building and interpersonal skills and ability to liaise with a diverse range of people, stakeholders, and customers

·       Computer literacy (including advanced Excel skills)

A place to belong:

·       It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

·       Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.

·       Internal employment and development opportunities

·       A modern, up to date working space with the opportunity to work from home (WFH)

·       Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program

·       Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We’ve established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Commitee).

·       Full salary packaging benefits (please use this to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Applications close 5pm AEST, Tuesday 30th April 2024.

For more information about this position, please contact Anastasia Mee on *************@savethechildren.org.au Or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as Permanent, full time, but if you're looking for something different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we’re providing you a personalised career.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at **************@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact **************@savethechildren.org.au for further support.