Accountant - - Moonee Ponds, Australia - Randstad

Description

Randstad is representing a well known Federal Government department to recruit a Senior Finance Officer.

Responsibilities:

• Manage month end activities for various funding sources including preparing, reviewing, and posting monthly journals including accruals.
• Reconciliations of various complex natural accounts, cost centers and projects.
• Updating forecasting monthly in line with current activities and strategic priorities.
• Ensuring the general ledger is maintained in an accurate manner.
• Preparing monthly management reports and Dashboards for Senior Executives.
• Undertake in-depth financial trend and variance analysis where required.
• Assist with the bi-annual budget development and management for various funding sources
• The financial management of property assets
• Provide periodic analysis and reporting to support Branch activities and ensure quality
• assurance.
• Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders, internal and external, to identify opportunities, achieve outcomes and facilitate cooperation.
• Communicate and make balanced decisions using professional judgment, evaluating available information, factoring in risks and being sensitive to the context.
• Develop and implement robust quality assurance strategies, policies, and guidance material

Skills required:

• Experience in Federal Government highly regarded
• Operate under limited direction, with the opportunity for reasonable autonomy and accountability.
• Exercise both initiative and judgment in the interpretation of policy and in the application of practices and procedures.
• Work positively and collaboratively, with a focus on customer service and maintaining open lines of communication.
• Coordinate work, manage competing priorities and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate analytical, interpretive and problem-solving skills.
• Completed or working towards a Bachelor of Accounting or equivalent.
• Completed or working towards a CA or CPA qualification.
• Experience with TechnologyOne.
• Strong Excel capabilities.

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