Senior Group Financial Accountant - Urgent Hire

We are looking to hire a creative Senior Group Financial Accountant to join our diverse team at carsales in Melbourne.
Growing your career as a Full Time Senior Group Financial Accountant is a fantastic opportunity to develop useful skills.
If you are strong in persuasion, adaptability and have the right initiative for the job, then apply for the position of Senior Group Financial Accountant at carsales today!

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tact, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. 

This is your opportunity to join carsales as a Senior Financial Accountant. Reporting to the Senior Group Finance Manager, you will be a contributor within the financial control team with internal month-end processes, statutory accounts, subsidiary specific month end responsibilities, consolidations, and stakeholder management.

Our Finance team has a full understanding of how each of our business units work, as they collaborate and share ideas with all our teams to ensure we are always delivering the best possible user experience to our customers.

What’s on offer

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice. 
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave. 

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Prepare and own consolidation, month end reporting and associated commentaries for critical subsidiaries, including relevant journals as required.
• Support with review of monthly general ledger reconciliations.
• Review and deliver half-year and full-year financial reports.
• Support managing the external audit process.
• Provide expert technical advice, financial information, and reporting to management.
• Collaborate with the Group Finance Managers on critical projects (system migrations, business combinations, capital transactions, review of internally developed software assets etc).
• Coach and develop Financial and Assistant Accountants.

Qualifications

What we are looking for?

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).
• Demonstrated expertise in accounting with strong technical accounting skills with a professional accounting qualification such as CA or CPA.
• Big 4 Chartered Accounting firm or ASX listed companies is advantageous.
• Understand accounting for key judgmental areas including provisions, accruals, impairment models, business combinations, rebate and volume incentive accounting, absorption costing, and/or standard costing (capitalised variance accounting) is advantageous. 
• Strong Excel proficiency and previous experience with NetSuite ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Business Central) or similar accounting programs.

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about... 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big. 

Benefits of working as a Senior Group Financial Accountant in Melbourne:

● Learning opportunities
● Advancement opportunities
● Advantageous package