Intercompany Financial Accountant

Group Intercompany Accounting

• Understand the Group intercompany policy and be accountable for the processes to implement the policy
• Communication of Group policy and procedures to all global business units (BU) partners, stakeholders and dependencies, including setting timetables to meet Group deadlines. Monitor adherence to the timetable through the reporting period, and be adaptive to changes as needed
• Training and supporting BU adherence to the intercompany policy and processes
• Reviewing intercompany agreements / arrangements and validating accounting treatment against policy
• Intercompany AR invoice requisition and AP invoice processing, payment process review and balance confirmation
• Prepare and post month-end intercompany recharge journal entries and balance review and confirmation to regions/busines units (pre and post closing)
• Group consolidation review and intercompany elimination journal entries posting to meet the month-end close deadline
• Monthly reconciliations of intercompany accounts and IC matrix confirmation.
• Continous monitor and improve the intercompany process

Business accounting advisory and partnering

• Build and maintain relationships with BU partners and stakeholders.
• Provide intercompany balances and transactions to key stakeholders (Tax / Treasury) for their reporting and decision-making requirement including:
• Pre-month-end I/C balances confirmation
• Advise on large I/C transactions during month-end
• Collate month-end I/C and cash balances groupwide in local currencies
• Produce and present monthly FX hedging report for effectiveness monitoring
• Supporting stakeholder and BU adhoc queries relating to intercompany matters

Compliance and governance support (External and Internal)

• Support statutory financial reporting requirements (ASX) by timely completion of the required intercompany reconciliations/schedules, confirmations
• External audit support related to intercompany
• Supporting tax reporting requirements by producing required statutory recharges, intercompany and other supporting information.
• Other ad-hoc regulatory reporting support as required (i.e. ABS survey)

Team support

• As a pivotal team member to foster a high-performance culture where quality output matters.
• Providing coaching, training and backup to other team members, as well as regional intercompany accountants and supporting them in meeting deadlines and resolving issues

Desired skills and capabilities:

Strong accounting skills and Business acumen

• Ability to develop an individual work plan based upon assigned goals. Use analysis, judgement and experience to apply appropriate recommendations
• Proven track record within a fast paced environment, with strong technical and analytical skills
• Prompt and accurate work with high attention to detail
• Organised, systematic, thorough, accurate and disciplined
• Working under pressure and multitasking

Strong interpersonal skills

• Self motivated and proactive with a desire for ongoing personal development and to take up new chellenges
• Approachable and professional interpersonal skills
• Customer focused
• Demonstrate positive behaviour and teamwork
• Ability to interact with staff from different departments and levels

Problem solving and Continuous process improvement

• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify solutions to problems and execute solutions through to completion
• Identifies opportunities to improve current processes, and is able to articulate ideas to others (e.g. Manager, IT Workshop, Easathon, Finnovation )
• Transforms opportunities into improvements, in turn bringing benefits to the organisation

Business partnering

• Frequent interaction with external and internal stakeholders, and building strong work relationships
• Presents financial information to stakeholders with the ability to increase stakeholder involvement

Communication

• Strong written, verbal communication and influencing skills
• Ability to effectively communicate accounting concepts to the stakeholders.