Corporate
Accountant
- Location: Hyderabad / Vizag – WFO
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Experience: 3–5 years post-qualification experience
- Qualification: CA / CPA (Completed or well progressed)
- ERP: Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (Mandatory / Relevant ERP experience)
- Accounting Standards: Australian Accounting Standards (AASB)
Job
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Corporate
- Accountant to manage financial reporting, month-end and year-end closing
- activities, statutory compliance, and consolidated financial statements for an
- Australian business and its controlled entities.
- The ideal candidate should have strong
- technical accounting knowledge, hands-on experience with Australian Accounting
- Standards (AASB), consolidation, balance sheet reconciliations, and statutory
- reporting. The role requires close coordination with the Financial Controller
- and other finance stakeholders to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant
- financial reporting.
- Candidates with experience in corporate
- accounting, financial reporting, or Big 4 / mid-tier audit environments will be
- preferred.
Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly and annual consolidated
- financial statements for the group and its subsidiaries in accordance with
- Australian Accounting Standards (AASB).
- Manage month-end and year-end closing
- activities, including journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and
- inter-company reconciliations and eliminations.
- Prepare statutory financial statements
- and coordinate with external auditors during the annual audit process.
- Perform and review balance sheet
- reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and ensure timely resolution
- of outstanding items.
- Maintain the fixed asset register,
- including asset capitalization, depreciation, and disposals.
- Handle technical accounting matters,
- including lease accounting under AASB 16, provisions, and other applicable
- accounting standards.
- Support tax and statutory compliance
- activities, including BAS/IAS lodgements, FBT returns, payroll tax, and
- income tax provisions.
- Assist with tax effect accounting and
- annual income tax return preparation in coordination with external tax
- advisers.
- Ensure compliance with Australian
- regulatory requirements, including ATO and ASIC obligations.
- Support annual budgeting, periodic
- forecasting, and cash flow forecasting activities.
- Prepare financial analysis and management
- reports to support business decisions and investment evaluations.
- Maintain the chart of accounts, general
- ledger structures, and financial reporting frameworks within the ERP
- system.
- Identify opportunities for process
- improvements, automation, and strengthening internal financial controls.
- Support ERP system upgrades, reporting
- tool implementation, and finance transformation initiatives.
Required
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting,
- Commerce, Finance, or a related discipline.
- CA (Chartered Accountants ANZ) or CPA
- Australia qualification – completed or well progressed.
- 3–5 years of relevant post-qualification
- experience in corporate accounting, financial reporting, or audit.
- Strong working knowledge of Australian
- Accounting Standards (AASB), particularly AASB 15, AASB 16, and
- consolidation requirements.
- Hands-on experience in preparing
- consolidated and statutory financial statements.
- Strong knowledge of month-end closing,
- general ledger accounting, journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and
- intercompany accounting.
Experience in balance sheet
- reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, and financial reporting.
- Good understanding of Australian tax and
- statutory compliance requirements, including GST, BAS, FBT, and payroll
- tax.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills,
- including complex formulas, Pivot Tables, lookups, and financial data
- analysis.
Experience working with ERP / General
- Ledger systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to
- detail, and ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal
- communication skills, with the ability to coordinate with international
- stakeholders.
Preferred
Skills
Experience working with Australian listed
- companies or multi-entity corporate groups.
- Prior experience in Big 4 or mid-tier
- audit firms.
- Knowledge of tax effect accounting and
- income tax provisions.
Experience with Power BI, financial
- reporting tools, or consolidation software.
- Exposure to ERP implementation, system
- upgrades, and finance process improvement initiatives.
Experience supporting Australian clients
or international accounting operations.
Key
Competencies
- Strong technical accounting and financial
- reporting knowledge.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving
- abilities.
- Ownership of month-end and year-end
- closing deliverables.
- Strong communication and stakeholder
- management skills.
- Integrity, professional judgement, and
- confidentiality.
- Ability to work independently and manage
- multiple deadlines.
- Proactive approach towards process
- improvement and automation.
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