Senior Financial Accountant

Posted May 31

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Job Description

The Senior Financial Accountant at Nearmap is a broad role requiring strong hands-on accounting skills, as well as commercial awareness and understanding. This role is primarily responsible for the completeness and accuracy of the US financial accounts, covering the US Balance Sheet and P&L. This includes management reporting, month end duties, transactional accounting and financial reporting. The Financial Accountant is also responsible for maintaining NA state and local taxation compliance in good standing as well as supporting Group Reporting team in NA income tax matters. The role requires regular liaison with Australian and North American stakeholders across multiple time zones and will also support other finance functions as needed.

Key Responsbilities:

  • Responsible for timely and accurate review of US operations vendor bills, credit card and expense reports
  • Accountable for US division’s month-end schedule and comply strictly with month-end timetable
  • Support US Commercial Finance in reviewing divisions P&L with meaningful variance analysis for monthly sign-off
  • Timely completion of US balance sheet reconciliations, identify and follow up with any reconciling items and seek prompt resolution
  • Other ad-hoc month-end tasks and duties as required in order to support AU Finance team
  • Assist and support Group statutory reporting
  • Key US contact for external audit of accounts in coordination of audit testing and reviews
  • Assist Commercial Finance in budget and forecast working, play an active role in providing spending and trend analysis to stakeholders to track performance
  • Other ad hoc statutory and management reporting as required
  • Support Group Financial Operations Manager and Group Payable team in managing NA operation cashflow
  • Administration of US banking platforms and credit card facility
  • Assist in the US Treasury service project
  • Review NA payroll, ensure data integrity and accuracy of payroll processing
  • Complete payroll accounting for US operations including benefit billing, WHT, and PTO liabilities
  • Assist in reviewing and reporting WHT on US non-cash benefit distributions
  • Act as Payroll backup for payroll processing
  • Manage CSC relationship to handle state and local compliance requirement
  • Manage Avalara relationship to handle US states sales tax registration, submission and reporting
  • Assist Group Finance in managing North America region tax registration and queries, ensuring all relevant tax payment schedules are properly maintained and managed
  • Assist in liaising with US tax authorities and Group US tax service consultant in investigating and resolving all tax matters
  • Assist with Group Finance and Legal in managing annual insurance renewal process
  • Any other requests or projects as required

Qualifications

  • Tertiary qualifications in accounting/business/commerce
  • CA/CPA qualification
  • Approximately 5 years’ experience in an accounting role
  • Sales tax experience essential
  • Corporate tax and Payroll experience viewed favourable
  • Understanding of accounting standards IFRS & GAAP
  • Problem solving and critical thinking skills
  • Excellent time management skills; organised, composed and shows initiative
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office. Advanced Excel skills preferable
  • Experience in using different accounting software is advantageous (NetSuite, Concur)
  • Strong emotional intelligence, professional, high level of attention to detail, composed, positive and energetic, able to work autonomously and take initiative, ability to work in a fast paced, highly dynamic environment.
  • Fosters team spirit, energetic, eager to learn and hands on

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