About the job

Job Purpose: Reporting to Regional Finance Head. Support to Home Office Controller, Central FP&A Department, , Company Management, and external partners in financial reporting, tax compliance, sales reporting, audits & compliances, regulatory & business, treasury & cashflow support to ensure financial integrity of the statutory and management accounting records/group management accounts

Key Accountabilities:

1. Financial Closing:

• Reviews IFRS compliant, consolidated monthly/quarterly/annual group accounts
• Review GTN provisions, Cross Charge workings, LRD model testing and IFC testing on monthly basis
• Manages and ensures the monthly BPC uploads are done according to deadlines
• Develops and reviews financial and operational reports/models for company management and global reporting
• Facilitates the process in preparing statutory, consolidated annual financial statements, compliant with IFRS and the Companies Act
• Share journal entries for payroll, statutory transactions, accruals & Provision for posting with FSS & rigorous review
• Tracking of Fixed Assets & intangibles
• Complete remarks for P&L & Balance sheet Variance Analysis and shared corporate team as per closing deadline
• Ensures that there is consistency in the accounting reflected by corporate closing score
• Ensures foreign exchange is consistently accounted across AU and NZ region for management reporting
• Provide financial information to external business partners like banks, insurance broker, auditors (internal & external)
• Assists with monthly and annual closing of accounting records
• Intercompany reconciliations
• Closely working with Statutory Auditors and Internal Auditors and ensuring timely closure of audits in tight deadlines.
• Coordinating with IT team for developments in SAP, testing of developments, template preparation
• Preparation regular sales updates
• Review Payroll tax, Super and leave liability working shared by HR
• Review quarterly Sales Incentive working shared by Business against sales Incentive scheme for the period.

2.Tax, Audit & Compliance:

• Coordinating with Statutory Auditor to ensure timely Audit closure
• Help in other audits – Revenue Audit, Internal Audit etc
• Ensure compliance with direct Tax, GST, FBT etc.
• Closing Transfer Pricing on a quarterly basis, Coordinate with Tax consultant to ensure Transfer pricing returns are filed on time
• Timely payments to Government for all Taxes
• Continued checks on Internal Compliance –HR, Payroll and other functions
• Collaborate with Tax Consultant for quarterly income tax calculations and ensure the timely filing of tax return, FBT return, local file with ATO and Annual return ASIC.
• Calculate provisional tax payment amounts
• Resolve all tax related queries
• Responsible for obtaining Tax clearance certificates
• Update the Compliance portal with assigned compliance task and timely submission
• Collaborate for secretarial obligation with internal and external Company secretory.