Financial Accounting Manager

• Leadership position
• Permanent full time role
• Pennant Hills location

About us:

At CatholicCare, our entire business is centered around people and that includes our employees and volunteers. We serve those in need with compassion, dignity and respect, providing high quality services that meet the evolving needs of our Community. Each of our 900+ staff play a part in helping people live their best life and transforming our communities to be safe, nurturing environments. Our people embody our values and demonstrate our mission in their everyday work.

We pride ourselves at making positive difference in the lives of the people we serve. Our services include NDIS disability services, out of home care, services for seniors, children’s services and a range of Therapeutic and Community Service offerings.

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has now become available for a well experienced and motivated Financial Accounting Manager to join the Head Office Finance Team.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, your role will be focused around providing hands on oversight of all Financial Accounting processes to ensure timely and accurate production of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting along with leading a small team of Finance professionals.

This is a permanent full-time position, based out of Pennant Hills and we support work life balance and have flexible work agreement in place. This role would suit an experienced Financial Accountant in the industry or a first-time mover from the profession.

Key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Maintain the primary responsibility over all accounting transactions through to ownership of the monthly trial balance and associated sub-ledgers, annual financial statements preparation, monthly and annual tax requirements for the agency.
• Processing financial information on a timely basis, accurately and in the manner and order necessary to meet reporting timetable requirements, including preparing and posting of necessary accounting journals and transactions.
• Providing leadership, mentoring and coaching to the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and other accounting functions including direct staff supervision.
• Driving process improvements, new systems and process implementations to support business growth.
• Deliver high quality analysis and evaluation of financial information and issues to support senior management decision making.
• Any other duties as directed by Manager.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree qualifications in accounting (or Business/Commerce), with current CPA or CA membership in Australia.
• Extensive financial accounting experience of greater than 5 years.
• Strong people leadership and coaching background of finance professionals.
• High level account reconciliation skills including but not limited to general ledger, subsidiary ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliation and fixed assets.
• Demonstrated capacity in financial analysis and variance analysis to assist operational management.
• Demonstrated competency in preparing management and financial reports, accounting policies and accrual accounting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current accounting standards and tax legislation.
• High level competency with software for financial reporting, including advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively within a team to deliver management outcomes.

Why Choose CatholicCare?

Please find attached a video about what it means to work at CatholicCare.

We also offer:

• Salary packaging benefits to receive a portion of your salary tax-free increasing your take home pay!
• A focus on employee well-being, with regular reflective/practice supervision opportunities.
• Regular training and learning opportunities.
• An Employee Assistance Program offering free and confidential counselling and support.
• Free onsite parking at Pennant Hills office.
• An additional Paid Leave Day (CatholicCare Day) to be taken at the end of the year.
• Baby bonus payment.

We are a safe, respectful, and inclusive employer. We welcome all applicants, regardless of their cultural background, gender, faith or disability. Our organisation will accommodate any reasonable requests to support you to thrive during the recruitment process and beyond.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please provide a Cover Letter addressing the role requirements and submit your Resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

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