Senior Financial Accountant

About your role:

We are looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our Finance Team located in Balcatta. The Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for the accounting and financial activities of the organisation, including financial reporting & compliance functions for multiple business units. 

This role will lead the transactional finance team members to ensure that daily transactions & analysis is performed on a timely basis & the organisation is compliant with the latest accounting standards and regulations.

Your duties and responsibilities:

Transactional Duties

• Ensuring key monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting deadlines are achieved.
• Processing all journal entries, reconciling sub-ledgers, and sub-systems (client and customer databases) for each business unit. Including all Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Delivering timely and accurate end to end month end processing, including all journal entries, and reconciliations, including clearing outstanding reconciling items.
• Maintaining Fixed Asset Registers across all business units, account for leased assets, according to the correct accounting and leases standards.
• Reviewing, maintaining, and updating financial records, including general ledger accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable and any relevant sub leger systems.
• Monitoring outstanding debtors and suppliers

Reporting and Analysis

• Assisting in the preparing of monthly business unit management and board reports, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and ad hoc analysis.
• Analysing financial data and preparing reports/analysis on financial performance, trends, and variance. 
• Assisting in the preparation for all the year-end financial audits and reporting requirements and the Annual Financial report.

Team mentoring, support, and leadership

• Monitoring the workload, performance, and productivity of all direct reports.
• Building a strong knowledgeable and high functioning finance team, to accommodate the growth within the organisation.
• Providing day-to-day financial support and leadership to the Finance Team.

Compliance and Regulations

• Ensuring compliance with accounting principles, standards, and regulations. 
• The preparation of BAS, PAYG and FBT.
• Assisting in the writing of detailed accounting standard assessment papers for audit and compliance needs.

Process improvement and maintaining financial systems.

• Overseeing and guiding the debt collection best practice process
• Overseeing and guiding the accounts payable and receivable process.
• Identifying process improvements, systems enhancement initiatives and proactively identify new initiatives that could benefit the organisation.
• Assisting in the identifying of new Financial Software systems.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Highly developed interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to build effective relationships and communicate with a diverse range of people both internal and external. 
• Excellent problem solving skills and can work under tight and fixed deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to easily learn new systems and implement new Financial Systems (Desirable)

Essential:

• Bachelor’s in commerce and accounting, (Degree qualified)
• Hold CPA or CA membership or be actively working towards qualification (near completion)
• Demonstrated knowledge of accounting practices and principles
• Ability to prepare technical accounting assessments, including researching and applying new accounting standards applicable within the business.
• Strong experience in medium ERP systems.
• Mentor and lead a small finance team.

About the Company:

The Electrical and Communications Association of Western Australia Inc. (“ECA Inc.”) supports and advances the interests of the electrical, electronic, communications, instrumentation, refrigeration and air-conditioning industry in the State of Western Australia.  ECA Inc. comprises four business units, each with a role to play in servicing the electrical industry:

• ECA Inc. – The peak industry association who’s vision it is to educate and service the electrical and communication industry in WA
• Electrical Group Training (EGT) – a registered Group Training Organisation (GTO)
• College of Electrical Training (CET) – a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) 
• Equip-Safe – a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). 
• ECA Legal – a separate legal firm providing legal services to ECA Inc. and its members

For more information about ECA WA see our website https://ecawa.org.au/

How to apply:

Please send your CV and COVER LETTER by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Applications should be addressed to the Corporate Finance Manager