Accountant - 6 month contract

Anglican Community Services; Sydney; Sur place; AUD 95 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible work options

Salary packaging benefits

Professional development

Staff discounts

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Passport

Résumé du poste

Anglicare Sydney is seeking an Accountant to lead the end-to-end fixed asset accounting, oversee capital projects, and ensure robust financial governance and reporting across the organisation.

You will manage asset registers, depreciation, disposals and capitalisation, partnering with project, development and operations teams to improve capital expenditure information and financial controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in fixed asset accounting, project accounting and capital expenditure management.
• Strong experience preparing balance sheet reconciliations and supporting month-end reporting activities.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, accounting standards and audit requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management capability.

Responsabilités

• Manage the fixed asset lifecycle including additions, transfers, reclassifications, depreciation and disposals.
• Monitor capital projects and ensure timely capitalisation of completed assets.
• Prepare project spend reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end journals.
• Partner with project, property and operational stakeholders to improve the quality and timeliness of capital expenditure information.
• Support audit requirements, financial controls, reporting and continuous process improvement initiatives.

Connaissances

Fixed assets

Project accounting

Capital expenditure

Reconcilations

Excel skills

Financial controls

Audit readiness

Stakeholder management

Formation

Accounting degree

Outils

Microsoft Excel

Description du poste

Anglican Community Services – Macquarie Park NSW

Permanent

20d ago , from Anglican Community Services

At Anglicare Sydney, we have been serving people, enriching lives and strengthening communities for more than 170 years. As one of Australia's largest Christian organisations, we support thousands of older people, families, children and individuals through aged care, community services, housing and community services programs.

As an Accountant, you'll be key to our mission to enrich lives and strengthen communities. This is an exciting 6-month max-term opportunity within our Finance Operations team, supporting the management of fixed assets, capital projects and financial reporting across the organisation.

Your opportunity

As our Accountant, you will manage the end-to-end fixed asset accounting process and provide accurate, timely oversight of capital projects, asset capitalisation, depreciation, transfers and disposals across Anglicare. You'll work closely with project, development and operational teams to ensure strong financial governance and accurate reporting of capital expenditure.

By maintaining the integrity of our fixed asset register and supporting key capital projects, you'll help ensure sound financial controls and accurate decision-making across the organisation.

• Manage the fixed asset lifecycle including additions, transfers, reclassifications, depreciation and disposals
• Monitor capital projects and ensure timely capitalisation of completed assets
• Prepare project spend reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end journals
• Partner with project, property and operational stakeholders to improve the quality and timeliness of capital expenditure information
• Support audit requirements, financial controls, reporting and continuous process improvement initiatives

What you'll bring

You are a detail-oriented accounting professional with strong analytical skills and experience managing fixed assets, capital expenditure and financial reporting processes. You enjoy partnering with stakeholders and are confident working across complex projects and competing priorities.

What's required:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
• Demonstrated experience in fixed asset accounting, project accounting and capital expenditure management
• Strong experience preparing balance sheet reconciliations and supporting month-end reporting activities
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong understanding of financial controls, accounting standards and audit requirements
• strong stakeholder management capability

What's preferred:

• CPA or CA qualification, or currently studying toward a professional accounting qualification
• Experience within a complex or multi-site organisation
• Exposure to property development, construction or capital project environments
• Experience extracting and analysing large data sets from various finance systems

For 170 years Anglicare has been serving those in need - providing care to older people and services to the vulnerable. With our recent acquisition of Infinite Care and Autumn Aged Care, today we employ 9,500 staff and are blessed to serve alongside 1,500 volunteers. We provide meaningful opportunities and choice, both for the individuals and communities we support and the dedicated people here who make it happen.

At Anglicare, you'll get the stability and opportunities that come with a strong, well-established organisation that's ready for the future. You'll belong to a community of kind, humble and respectful people. You will also be supported to gain new knowledge, deepen your experience and expertise, and shape a rewarding career.

On top of that, here are just some of the tangible benefits you will enjoy in a career with us:

• Flexible work options to support work-life balance
• Pay less tax on your income and increase your take home pay. With salary packaging, up to $15,900 of your income is tax free.
• Spend up to $2,650 on accommodation, meals and entertainment also tax free with salary packaging.
• Ongoing professional development and leadership training to advance your career
• Exclusive discounts to over 400 retailers
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Fitness Passport with discounts to over 800 gyms for you and your family

Are you ready for a career that means more?

Anglicare is as wonderfully diverse as the customers and communities we support. While we are guided by our Christian-based values, our team includes people of all faiths and backgrounds who share our commitment to serving others, and we value the diverse perspectives they bring. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.