Financial Accounting Manager

About The Role

We’re partnering with a well-established, multi-entity Melbourne organisation to appoint a Financial Accounting Manager. This is a career-defining move for an audit professional at Manager level or above who’s ready to stop reviewing other people’s numbers and start owning them. You’ll lead a capable team, report directly into senior finance leadership, and have the scope to shape how the function runs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Financial Accountants, and oversee delivery of consolidated statutory accounts for a complex, multi-entity, multi-structure group
• Provide technical accounting advice on the tax and accounting impact of the group’s investments and transactions
• Own the group’s performance management platform, OneStream, which is used for financial reporting and consolidations
• Drive continuous improvement by finding opportunities to streamline processes through effective use of AI and automation
• Manage tax effect accounting, including preparing and analysing deferred tax calculations and writing CFO-level papers on deferred tax balances
• Partner with finance and operational stakeholders across the group

Skills

• CA or CPA qualified
• Experience at Manager level or above in external audit at a Big 4 or mid-tier firm, ideally across complex group or multi-entity clients
• Strong technical depth in consolidations, statutory reporting and accounting standards
• Solid working knowledge of tax effect accounting and deferred tax
• Experience leading and developing junior staff, and the confidence to present complex issues clearly to the CFO and non-finance stakeholders

Benefits

• A genuine launchpad from audit into in-house leadership, with scope to grow your remit
• A more sustainable rhythm than busy season, with hybrid flexibility
• Direct exposure to the CFO and executive team
• The chance to shape a modernising finance function through systems, AI and automation

Apply now or reach out to Sam Liu at Perigon Group on 0424 577 806 for a confidential conversation about the role.

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