Management & System Accountant

Put your management accounting skills to work in a newly created role, taking full accounting ownership of a commercial business unit.

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