Financial & Cost Accountant

Financial & Cost Accountant - FMCG

Company Background

Our client has a diverse product offering and an excellent reputation in their niche market. They are part of a much larger, multi-billion dollar global empire. While this gives them great financial backing and stability, here in Australia they still operate with an SME company culture and feel.

The business has a real emphasis on ‘team’, promoting its core values. They offer WFH, team-building events, lunch and the top level-stakeholders have an open-door policy. The impressive tenure in finance & across the wider business are testament to this.

The Role

This Financial & Cost Accountant role is a great opportunity for someone who wants to be involved in the business, rather than spending all their time in the monthly reporting cycles.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, your responsibilities are split across costing, audit and financial accounting tasks:

• Supporting the finance team with period-end tasks including reconciliations, journals, and reporting for monthly, quarterly and annual close.
• Internal control compliance including Internal Audit Best Practice, SOX. QTR Audit preparation and liaison with external auditors.
• Cost reporting at both transfer pricing and management cost level.
• Ownership of item master data management in inventory management systems and finance ERP to ensure correct reporting of inventory source and local oncost.
• Support the forecasting processes by providing accurate financial insights and collaborating with relevant stakeholders.
• Partner with local and global business units including Global economics, IT and Finance teams to drive efficiency, ensure data integrity, and support continuous improvement.

Your Background

To be considered for this opportunity the client is looking for someone who has/is:

• CA or CPA qualified or close.
• Someone who has worked in manufacturing or a similar industry and has some understanding of product costing & inventory.
• Financial Accounting experience including month-end experience. Balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and some inventory reconciliations.

It's essential you are an outgoing, confident communicator who enjoys working with stakeholders across the business! You will be dealing with people from all of their international offices so you must have impeccable English communication skills.

We can only consider candidates currently residing in Australia with an appropriate visa to work permanently.

If you are keen to apply for this role please apply below. For any further queries, you can contact Adele at Richard Lloyd on 02 8324 5647, quoting reference 9285.

Please submit your CV in Word format and note that due to the high volume of responses we receive only suitable candidates will be contacted.