Senior Financial Accountant

at  HPX Group

ABOUT US

HPX Group brings together international corporate and commercial law firm, Hamilton Locke, and in-house style essential professional services business, Source. HPX Group is a rapidly growing professional services group, providing exceptional legal, governance, risk and compliance services.
Our businesses are powered by our ‘people experience’ (PX), and we believe this delivers the best possible ‘client experience’ (CX). This means we are culture-led, operating with a clear purpose and values-driven leadership model, prioritising personal and professional development. With a clean sheet of paper, we have aligned structure and systems around our strategy. We provide our people with a collaborative environment and modern and integrated technology, allowing them to focus on their jobs without layers of bureaucracy.

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for someone:

• With 3+ years’ experience as a Financial Accountant
• Tertiary Degree in Accounting and CA or CPA qualified
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Engaging, outstanding communication skills, with ability to build rapport with customers to drive outcomes
• Deadline-oriented and strong time management skills
• Ability to work in a hyper growth environment, with strong attention to detail, and problem-solve
• Microsoft Business Central and ActionStep experience an advantage
• Staff management experience an advantage

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Financial Accountant, to work closely with the finance team delivering month end close and financial reporting for the Group. As a Senior Financial Accountant you will be key to ensuring the integrity of the financials and delivering all tax compliance requirements.
Day to day responsibilities include:

Financial Accounting – 85%

• Managing month end close process – processing of accruals (eg. WIP, salaries, leave liabilities, ECL), review and analysis of results, providing commentary on variances to budget.
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations
• Year end – assistance with preparation of general purpose financial statements including calculations for Lease Accounting, Tax Effect Accounting and LSL.
• Liaising with external Auditors and Tax specialists
• Treasury management – monitoring cash flows and liaising with banks.
• Providing guidance to offshore finance transactions team when necessary in respect of reconciliations, general journals, billing and general accounting tasks.
• Responding to financial queries from internal clients eg. HQ, Partners and other business heads
• Practice management and finance systems superuser
• Finance projects eg. implementation of Expense Management System
• Other ad hoc projects in a fast-paced, hyper growth environment

Tax – 15%

• Preparation of monthly BAS and IAS.
• GST compliance.
• Income tax and FBT return preparation.
• Responding to tax queries from internal clients and ATO