Job Purpose: Reporting to Regional Finance Head. Support to Home Office Controller, Central FP&A; Department, Company Management, and external partners in financial reporting, tax compliance, sales reporting, audits & compliances, regulatory & business, treasury & cashflow support to ensure financial integrity of the statutory and management accounting records/group management accounts.

Key Accountabilities

Financial Closing:

- Reviews IFRS compliant, consolidated monthly/quarterly/annual group accounts.
- Review GTN provisions, Cross Charge workings, LRD model testing and IFC testing on monthly basis.
- Manages and ensures the monthly BPC uploads are done according to deadlines.
- Develops and reviews financial and operational reports/models for company management and global reporting.
- Facilitates the process in preparing statutory, consolidated annual financial statements, compliant with IFRS and the Companies Act; Share journal entries for payroll, statutory transactions, accruals & Provision for posting with FSS & rigorous review.
- Tracking of Fixed Assets & intangibles.
- Complete remarks for P&L; & Balance sheet Variance Analysis and shared corporate team as per closing deadline.
- Ensures that there is consistency in the accounting reflected by corporate closing score.
- Ensures foreign exchange is consistently accounted across AU and NZ region for management reporting.
- Provide financial information to external business partners like banks, insurance broker, auditors (internal & external).
- Assists with monthly and annual closing of accounting records.
- Intercompany reconciliations.
- Closely working with Statutory Auditors and Internal Auditors and ensuring timely closure of audits in tight deadlines.
- Coordinating with IT team for developments in SAP, testing of developments, template preparation.
- Preparation regular sales updates.
- Review Payroll tax, Super and leave liability working shared by HR.
- Review quarterly Sales Incentive working shared by Business against sales Incentive scheme for the period.

Tax, Audit & Compliance

- Coordinating with Statutory Auditor to ensure timely Audit closure.
- Help in other audits – Revenue Audit, Internal Audit etc.
- Ensure compliance with direct Tax, GST,



FBT etc.; Closing Transfer Pricing on a quarterly basis; Coordinate with Tax consultant to ensure Transfer pricing returns are filed on time.
- Timely payments to Government for all Taxes; Continued checks on Internal Compliance –HR, Payroll and other functions.
- Collaborate with Tax Consultant for quarterly income tax calculations and ensure the timely filing of tax return, FBT return, local file with ATO and Annual return ASIC.
- Calculate provisional tax payment amounts.
- Resolve all tax related queries.
- Responsible for obtaining Tax clearance certificates.
- Update the Compliance portal with assigned compliance task and timely submission.
- Collaborate for secretarial obligation with internal and external Company secretary.

Audit & Compliances

- Ensuring on going compliance to all external stakeholders.
- Ensuring smooth audit support & outcome (no material observation).

Sales Reporting & Review

- Review daily sales report and support to business partners; includes support to SFE team for sales dashboard review.
- Review GTN items in accordance with revenue recognition policies; lead discussion with finance head and controller.

Price Disclosure

- Lead 6th Monthly retail price disclosure to PBS post internal discussion with business teams.
- Ensure rigorous pricing agenda & cadence for retail pricing.
- Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation.

Claims Review & Automation

- Lead retail claim coordination with business and rigorous review to ensure timely booking and closure of discrepancies.
- Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation.
- Lead claims automation process along with finance head & regional controller; scoping & liaising with external parties.

ARTG Review & Submission





- Partner with regulatory team for accurate annual submission on timely basis and proactively partner with business for driving cost savings on regulatory filing fee and reimbursement from customers / B2B partners.
- Ensure rigorous payment cadence along with FSS for TGA filings inline with SOP / internal tracking mechanism.

Treasury & Cashflow

- Prepare and review quarterly cashflow for entity as well as annual budget.
- Lead discussions with banking partners and with treasury / corporate secretarial teams for compliances.
- Review funding requirements (including financial products) and support finance head in liaising with internal (Treasury) and external stakeholders (Bank).
- Review and authorise payments on the banking portal.
- Administer employee credit card, share monthly statement with Card holder and ensure timely accounting of expenses.
- Reconcile bank transactions monthly.

Accounts Payables

- Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following.
- Coordinate new vendor onboarding and manage vendor agreements records.
- Raise Service POs as per request and record GRN for Services rendered.
- FSS team in India for the accounting of payables.
- Cross-charges transactions with subsidiary/holding company finance teams.

Accounts Receivables

- Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following.
- Collate remittance advices, discount & rebate Claims and ensure timely accounting.
- Timely receipt of cashflow as per due date and support discussion with customer post outreach by home office including and minimise DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) and other KPIs.
- Verify customer discounts and rebate claims, discussing discrepancies with Retail Business Head & Regional finance head.

Educational Qualifications

Qualified / Completed - CA / CA / CPA / MBA.

Self starter and enterprising with valuable communication skills.

Advanced Excel Skills.

Experience with Accounting Software – SAP.

Knowledge of local & statutory compliances.

Relevant Experience

- Minimum 5-8 Years of experience in Accounting & Audit in Australia.
- Experience working with global and geographically dispersed stakeholders is preferred.

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