Our client is a well-established, purpose-driven not-for-profit organisation with a national presence and a head office in Canberra.
Alongside its community work, the organisation runs several commercial business units, and its Canberra office is growing as this activity expands. It’s a period of real change, with business units being brought together and new finance systems being introduced across the organisation.
The Opportunity
This is a newly created role and will own the finance system, the management reporting framework and the accounting for a key commercial business unit.
Your first six months will focus on systems and finance process design, before you take on full accounting responsibility for the business unit.
Build the finance systems and consolidated reporting framework from scratch rather than maintain someone else’s
Become the organisation’s go-to finance system expert as every business unit moves onto a new ERP
Join a small, close-knit finance team located in central Canberra
The Role
You’ll combine systems ownership, management reporting and commercial accounting across a growing multi-business-unit organisation.
In this role you’ll be:
Acting as primary owner and administrator of the new ERP finance environment, supporting its implementation and configuration across all business units
Designing, documenting and embedding the finance operating processes around the system, and act as the escalation point for finance system issues
Owning the payment reconciliation for a high-volume online revenue stream, including automating transaction flow into the ERP
Building and maintaining a consolidated management reporting framework that brings the business units together into a single view
Producing monthly management reports, business unit P&Ls and commentary for the COO and Board
Supporting budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis, and provide commercial analysis and decision support to the COO
Taking end-to-end accounting responsibility for a commercial business unit, including month-end close, reconciliations, revenue recognition, reporting and regulatory compliance
Partnering with business unit operations on performance reporting and margin analysis
Contributing to statutory reporting, audit preparation and finance policy
The Ideal Person
You’re a commercially minded management accountant who understands how a business really operates and is at your best when you can get inside a system, learn it quickly and own it.
You’re comfortable working independently, with the COO as your main point of leadership.
You will bring the following skills and experience:
A CA/CPA qualified accountant with good experience in management accounting
Experience producing management reports and consolidated reporting across multiple business units or entities
Strong Excel and data-handling skills
The ability to clearly present financial information to non-finance stakeholders
Salary
$110k – $120k + Super
Full-time permanent role
Based in a brand new Canberra office, with flexible working (approximately 4 days a week in the office)
Additional Benefits
Access to PBI (public benevolent institution) salary packaging, which can substantially increase your take-home pay
How to Apply
To apply online, please click on the appropriate link.
For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Kristelle Gadd on 02 6108 4878 quoting ref no. 21828 .
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