Assistant Accountant

Hays Sydney, Australia

Posted 22 hours ago Permanent Competitive

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Assistant Accountant needed urgently for a thriving business in Western Sydney!Your new company is a well-known organisation in Western Sydney looking to hire an Assistant Accountant.

Your new role will include but will not be limited to:

Support the timely and accurate completion of the month-end close process.

Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, including accurate transaction coding, authorisation, and balance sheet reconciliations.

Manage the Goods Received/Invoice Received reconciliation process

Prepare and deliver meaningful variance analysis of monthly financial results, providing insights to support the Head of Country Finance and business stakeholders.

Play a key role in the delivery of year-end financial results, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to reporting timelines.

Support the year-end external audit process by preparing schedules, responding to auditor queries, and coordinating documentation requests.

Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external auditors to facilitate an efficient and timely audit process.

Support the Head of Country Finance in maintaining a robust internal control environment, ensuring effective financial and operational controls are designed, implemented, and monitored across the business.

Assist in ensuring appropriate segregation of duties, delegation of authority, and control compliance to mitigate operational and financial risks.

Assist the team in driving continuous improvement initiatives across finance processes, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and overall control effectiveness.

Support the accurate and timely preparation, review and lodgement of all indirect tax obligations in Australia, including Business Activity Statement (BAS), Payroll Tax and Fringe Benefits Tax returns.

Oversee the timely and accurate validation and processing of intercompany transactions and invoicing.

Perform monthly intercompany account reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and ensure variances are resolved promptly.

Partner with finance teams to ensure alignment of intercompany balances and compliance with group policies.

Maintain and manage Fixed Assets Register

Review and maintain vendor master data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with company policies.

Monitor AP and AR performance metrics, supporting timely issue resolution and process optimisation.

What you'll need to succeed
Similar experience in an all-rounder Accounting role is necessary. Knowledge of SAP or similar large ERP would be ideal.

What you need to do now

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ABOUT COMPANY

Hays Australia

Sydney, Australia

12100 Employees HR & Recruitment

About us

At Hays, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. You are at the heart of everything we do. With over 50 years’ experience and a workforce of more than 10,000 people across 32 countries, we collectively put our customers, at the heart of everything we do.

Drawing on knowledge that’s unique to our scale, our commitment to understanding your needs and our ability to meaningfully innovate we are more than just a specialist recruitment business. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues you face in today’s fast paced world of work, we’ll help you make the right decisions for tomorrow.

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