The Company

Some businesses are built to be seen. This one sits quietly behind a outstanding many of Queensland’s biggest transactions and investments, moving high value work between government, business and the community in a way almost nobody notices and everybody relies on. It runs on a long term operating model with institutional backing, and that buys a rare mix of commercial discipline, public purpose and stability.

Revenue is highly predictable, margins are strong and there is clear visibility of future cash flows.

The finance function is compact and high calibre, working close to senior decision makers, external advisers and regulators. What is unusual is the starting point. The business is already well run and the cash flow is extraordinary, so the agenda is not repair, it is improvement. Lifting reporting quality, tightening controls and getting ahead of new disclosure requirements while there is still time to do it properly.

This Senior Financial

Accountant role is where a good deal of that work will get done.

The Role

Reporting to the Financial Controller, and working closely with the deputy CFO and the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer, the Senior Financial Accountant role carries the general ledger and a real share of the statutory reporting. The general journals, month end and the balance sheet reconciliations, then the financial statements and the audit that follows them. There is no layer sitting between you and the person who runs the function.

The other half of the job is improvement, and it is worth being precise about what that means here. In most businesses, improving finance means firefighting. Something is broken, cash is tight and you are patching a process while everyone tries to keep the doors open.

None of that applies. The numbers are already right, the cash flow is extraordinary and there is genuine appetite to invest, so the list is deliberate, properly funded and spread across the next few years. You would be taking a well run business from good to great rather than dragging a struggling one back to acceptable.

Duties will include, but not be limited to:

- Preparing and processing the general journals,



including fixed assets and treasury
- Working the month end close, including the balance sheet reconciliations
- Preparing the year end financial statements alongside the Financial Controller
- Supporting the external audit, and getting the auditors what they need accurately and on time
- Treasury accounting, and the technical accounting questions that come with it
- Working through a deliberate list of process improvements, with the time and the backing to do them properly
- Taking a share of the ESG and climate disclosure reporting as those responsibilities are shaped
- Payroll tax, BAS, FBT and other statutory lodgements
- Working alongside the finance business partners who run accounts payable, receivable and banking
- Keeping records, files and workpapers in a state where anyone could pick them up

About You You are the kind of Senior Financial Accountant who cannot leave a process alone once you can see a better version of it. You are also the kind who stops before diving in, because when something lands that you have not seen in quite that shape before, you look for the parallel in work you have done, you think about how you will approach it and you know when to back your own judgement and when to ask.

Common sense, critical thinking and problem solving sound like ordinary things to ask for. They are rarer than they should be, and they are what this team is actually looking for. You may be a first mover out of an accounting firm, you may come from business services, or you may already sit in a commercial team having run a few month end cycles. What matters more is that you want to settle somewhere, grow into a role across several years, and be invested in while you do it.

Skills & Experience To be effective in this Senior Financial Accountant role, you will likely bring:





- You are an external audit or business services first mover. Or you possess:-
- A solid grounding in month end, reconciliations and general ledger work, from practice or from industry
- Exposure to statutory financial statements, whether you have prepared them or audited them
- An eye for the better way of doing something, and the patience to build it properly rather than patch it
- Experience on a mainstream finance system, with any exposure to statutory or ESG reporting tools standing out
- A degree in accounting or finance, with CA or CPA complete or well progressed

What’s on Offer Part of what makes this worth doing is who you would be doing it with. The CFO/COO came through Big Four mergers and acquisitions, has worked in Hong Kkng and New New York then eight years inside an ASX listed infrastructure group rising to CFO, and trained in sustainable finance at Oxford. The Deputy CFO spent more than a decade with a Big Four firm, finishing as a Director in its private equity advisory practice, and is a Chartered Accountant who names process improvement as his own specialism.

The Financial

Controller you would report to is a Chartered Accountant with dual degrees who ran financial reporting for four years inside one of the country’s largest institutional investment managers.

- Improvement work with real money behind it, on a business that already works rather than one in trouble
- Treasury and a share of the ESG reporting alongside the statutory cycle, which is unusual breadth at this level
- Three days in the office and two from home, with genuine consideration for four days a week if that suits you better
- A brand new CBD fit out within weeks, and a permanent Senior Financial Accountant seat in a business with predictable revenue and deep pockets

Apply Now If you want a Senior Financial Accountant role where the improvement work is deliberate and properly funded rather than a fire to put out, apply today.

Click Apply Now to submit your application or contact Matthew Taylor at P&C; Partners for a confidential discussion. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

📌 Senior Financial Accountant (Brisbane)
🏢 Pu0026C Partners
📍 Brisbane