Job Description

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

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Key Accountabilities:

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

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- Coordinating with Statutory Auditor to ensure timely Audit closure
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- Help in other audits – Revenue Audit, Internal Audit etc
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- Ensure compliance with direct Tax, GST, FBT etc.
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- Closing Transfer Pricing on a quarterly basis, Coordinate with Tax consultant to ensure Transfer pricing returns are filed on time
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- Timely payments to Government for all Taxes
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- Continued checks on Internal Compliance –HR, Payroll and other functions
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- 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.
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- Calculate provisional tax payment amounts
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- Resolve all tax related queries
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- Responsible for obtaining Tax clearance certificates
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- Update the Compliance portal with assigned compliance task and timely submission
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- Collaborate for secretarial obligation with internal and external Company secretory.
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3. Audit & Compliances:

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- Ensuring on going compliance to all external stakeholders
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- Ensuring smooth audit support & outcome (no material observation)
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- Review daily sales report and support to business partners; includes support to SFE team for sales dashboard review
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- Review GTN items in accordance with revenue recognition policies; lead discussion with finance head and controller
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- Lead 6th Monthly retail price disclosure to PBS post internal discussion with business teams
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- Ensure rigorous pricing agenda & cadence for retail pricing
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- Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation
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- Lead retail claim coordination with business and rigorous review to ensure timely booking and closure of discrepancies
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- Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation
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- Lead claims automation process along with finance head & regional controller; scoping & liaising with external parties
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7. ARTG Review & submission:

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- 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
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- Ensure rigorous payment cadence along with FSS for TGA filings inline with SOP / internal tracking mechanism
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8. Treasury & cashflow:

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

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

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- Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following
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- Collate remittance advices, discount & rebate Claims and ensure timely accounting.
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- 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
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- Verify customer discounts and rebate claims, discussing discrepancies with Retail Business Head & Regional finance head.
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Educational Qualifications:

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- Qualified / Completed - CA / CA / CPA / MBA
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- Self starter and enterprising with good communication skills
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- Advanced Excel Skills
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- Experience with Accounting Software – SAP
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- Knowledge of local & statutory compliances
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- Minimum 5-8 Years of experience in Accounting & Audit in Australia
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- Experience working with global and geographically dispersed stakeholders is preferred
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📌 Finance Manager - ANZ (New South Wales)
🏢 Cipla
📍 New South Wales