Senior Accountant - GP & Inventory

• Flexible working arrangements are available 

• You can be based anywhere in Australia
• 2 Permanent positions
• Genuine opportunities to further grow and progress your career with FSS which have recently been certified as a Great Place to Work

About the role

You will be responsible to lead a small team to review, investigate and provide insights on Business Unit Gross Profit and associated balance sheet accounts. This includes monitoring all profit lines attributing to Gross Profit, preparing balance sheet
reconciliations, managing queries from business partners as well as supporting the wider GP & Inventory team in driving continuous improvements across all aspects of the teams performance.

Key responsibilities:

End to end process ownership

• Supporting timely and insightful reporting of the profit and loss result and balance sheet to business unit finance teams
• Perform, review and investigate divisional trading results and selected balance sheet accounts
• Ensure reconciliations are prepared effectively and provide a clear description of outstanding items, have appropriate supporting documentation, provide a conclusion and an action plan for clearance
• Ensure financial controls are in place and reviewed to comply with accounting policies, standards 
• Play an active role in our Corporate Governance Program including testing key controls and reporting on deficiencies
• Liaise with stakeholders to call out insights and resolve queries
• Maintain an effective understanding of business and reporting considerations
• Maintain stakeholder relationships
• Perform User Acceptance Testing for any changes to the System Environment

Process Improvement

• Develop and implement process improvements to ensure a standard, lean and efficient operating model
• Leverage systems to achieve accounting outcomes that remove manual effort

Team and Culture 

• Lead, coach and manage a small team 
• Work with other senior accountants and accounting managers to ensure that there is a consistent “way of working” in place 

About you

• You will have a finance related degree with a CA or CPA qualification
• 3- 5 Years relevant experience, exposure in retail/large corporate will be advantageous
• Strong experience using financial systems in a commercial environment e.g. Excel
• (pivot tables, vlookups, macros), Powerpoint, SAP, SAP BW, BPC
• Able to communicate complex financial information to a broad audience; able to make the complex simple
• Advanced analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to synthesise large amounts of data from a variety of sources
• Strong presentation and storyboarding skills