Our client is a well‐established captive finance business operating across Australia and New Zealand, backed by a global parent group. With a growing loan and lease portfolio and continued investment in Finance, they're seeking a Financial Accountant on a 12‐month contract to own month‐end close, statutory reporting and consolidation across multiple entities, and drive process improvement in a highly manual environment.
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Key Responsibilities
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Own end-to-end month-end close for the broker entity and NZ entity (journals: accruals, provisions, depreciation, intercompany, eliminations)
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Review P&L;/balance sheet movements at entity and consolidated level
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Support year-end statutory and consolidated financial statements
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Own balance sheet reconciliations, support external audit and statutory accounts process
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Streamline month-end/reporting processes (templates, spreadsheets, folder structures) for accuracy and efficiency
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Partner with the Financial Controller on consolidation, eliminations and Group reporting to parent entities
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Use advanced Excel to automate manual models and speed up reporting