Senior Accountant

Sharp & Carter Finance & Accounting Brisbane; Brisbane; Sur place; AUD 120 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Populous Brisbane is seeking a Senior Accountant to lead month‑end and year‑end close, manage multi‑currency accounting, intercompany reconciliation and regional reporting for the APAC region. You will support the Financial Controller and finance team with audits, tax compliance, and process improvements.

The role offers a pathway to advance within a globally connected studio network focused on sustainability, innovation, and community impact in Australia and beyond.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification (Bachelor or Master’s) from an Australian or recognised university.
• CA/CPA qualified accounting with commercial experience preferred.

Responsabilités

• Month-end reporting and reconciliations.
• Statutory and corporate reporting.
• Financial analysis and variance investigations.
• Payroll for a small salaried workforce.
• Supporting reporting across a multi-entity group.

Connaissances

Multi-currency accounting

Intercompany accounting

Financial reporting

CA/CPA qualified

Analytical skills

Formation

CA/CPA qualification

Outils

Deltek

Description du poste

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As a Senior Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day financial operations across our APAC region, ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance and effective financial management. Working closely with the Financial Controller and broader finance team, you will oversee key accounting activities, support regional finance initiatives and contribute to continuous process improvements to drive efficiency and accuracy across the business.

About us at Populous

At Populous, our teams design the places where people love to be together. From stadiums and arenas to convention centres, airports, mixed‑use developments, and entertainment precincts, we have delivered many of the world’s most iconic and community‑defining projects.

With projects spanning Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, we bring globalexpertiseand local insight to every design. OurBrisbaneteam is central to this network, delivering impactful projects locally and across the region with a focus on sustainability, innovation, and community.

Why Populous

Wedon’tconsider ourselves just another architecture and design practice. At Populous, we believe our strength lies in our people and their diversity of experiences. Across APAC, our team represents over 35 nationalities, and we actively celebrate and support this.

We provide our people with:

• The opportunity to contribute to projects of global significance inBrisbane and across APAC
• A collaborative international network of experts and design leaders
• Career development opportunities, including leadership training, mentorship, and global mobility
• A vibrant workplace culture where creativity, collaboration, and innovation are valued
• An environment where everyone can be themselves and grow their careers in any direction they want, all while being in an inclusive and supportive workplace
• Oh, andwe’rerecognised as one of the best places to work in Australia!We’vebeen recognised as a Work180 Top 101 Employer for Women two years in a row, winners of two Work180 Workplace awards and recognised as a HRD 5 Star Employer!

What will you be engaged in?

As a Senior Accountant you will be involved in:

• Take ownership of month‑end and year‑end close activities, ensuring accurate and timely completion of journals, reconciliations and reporting requirements.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, including intercompany, foreign currency, payroll, tax and other key control accounts, investigating and resolving reconciling items.
• Maintain the integrity and accuracy of the general ledger, including review and preparation of accruals, prepayments, provisions, leases and other accounting adjustments.
• Manage multi‑currency accounting, including foreign currency transactions, revaluations, exchange differences and the appropriate treatment of balances denominated in currencies other than an entity’s functional currency.
• Assist with cash flow reporting, forecasting and working capital management.

2. Tax, Compliance & Audit

• Coordinate and support external and internal audit requirements across multiple entities, including preparation of audit documentation and responses to queries.
• Support local statutory reporting, tax and regulatory compliance across APAC jurisdictions, working with external auditors, tax advisers, payroll providers and other professional advisers as required.
• Support compliance with relevant accounting standards, tax and statutory reporting requirements.
• Assist with GST/VAT, withholding tax and other periodic tax compliance across the region, including cross‑border transactions where appropriate.

3. Intercompany & Regional Finance

• Support compliance with transfer pricing and intercompany arrangements, including maintenance of appropriate supporting documentation and reconciliation of intercompany charges.
• Support intercompany accounting and reconciliations, including investigation of differences and coordination with other regional or global finance teams.

4. Team Support & Development

• Review work prepared by more junior members of the finance team and provide coaching, guidance and technical support.
• Act as a key point of contact within Finance for day‑to‑day accounting queries and provide support across the broader finance function.

5. Finance Improvement & Strategic Support

• Support the Financial Controller with regional finance initiatives, technical accounting matters, process improvement and ad‑hoc financial analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve, automate and standardise finance processes, systems and reporting.

What we are looking for

To succeed in this role you will bring:

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualified, with either Bachelor and/or Master’s degree from an Australian, or other recognised university is highly valued

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• 3-5 years proven experience in
  • An operational finance role, with public accounting experience highly valued.
  • Accounting for multi-company and multi-currency environments including reconciliation and elimination of intercompany projects and accounts (requiring knowledge and experience in company/group consolidations)
• Knowledge of taxation systems and compliance requirements for countries across APAC is highly regarded
• Project accounting knowledge and experience in architecture, engineering or construction highly regarding
• High level understanding of finance systems; experience using Deltek is valued
• High level skill in written and verbal communication

At Populous, we’re not only looking for skills but also for people who share our passion for creating places where communities come together.

We design the places that bring people together — and we know that happens best when our own team reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We encourage people of all identities, abilities, and lived experiences to apply and join us in shaping the future of design.

Our client is a privately owned business with a diverse portfolio of operations and investments. Having experienced consistent growth over recent years, they have built a reputation for taking a long‑term approach, maintaining a strong culture and creating opportunities for their people to develop alongside the business. With a lean and highly engaged team, this is an environment where individuals are encouraged to take ownership, contribute ideas and gain genuine exposure to how a business operates beyond the finance function.

About the Role

Reporting to an experienced Finance Manager, you’ll play a key role within a small finance team, supporting the day‑to‑day running of the finance function while gaining exposure to a wide range of accounting and commercial activities.

This is not a role where you’ll spend the next few years simply processing the same transactions on repeat. It will suit someone who enjoys variety, wants to understand how a business works and is motivated by finding better ways of doing things.

Key responsibilities include:

• Month‑end reporting and reconciliations
• Statutory and corporate reporting
• Financial analysis and investigation of variances
• Payroll for a small salaried workforce
• Supporting reporting requirements across a multi‑entity group structure
• Contributing to process improvements and helping enhance the capability of the finance function

You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with leaders across the business, develop your commercial acumen and gain exposure that is often difficult to find in more traditional accounting roles.

About You

We’re looking for a CA/CPA qualified Accountant with commercial experience who enjoys getting involved, takes ownership of their work and wants to continue developing their career.

Ideally, you'll bring:

• Experience as an Accountant or Financial Accountant
• Strong financial reporting and reconciliation experience
• Well‑developed analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Strong attention to detail coupled with a commercial mindset
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• The ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced, evolving environment

You’ll also be someone who:

• Is curious by nature and enjoys understanding the "why" behind the numbers
• Looks for solutions rather than simply identifying problems
• Enjoys improving processes and finding efficiencies
• Can balance both a technical accounting and commercial lens in their work
• Thrives in a collaborative, office‑based environment
• Wants a role that will continue to evolve as they do

Most importantly, you'll be motivated by learning, growth and becoming a genuine contributor to the business. If your goal is to be doing exactly the same tasks in two or three years' time, this probably isn't the right opportunity. If you're looking for a role where you can broaden your skillset, gain exposure and grow alongside a business, we'd love to hear from you.

What's on Offer?

• Broad exposure across a complex, multi‑entity environment
• A hands‑on role with genuine ownership and accountability
• Direct access to experienced leaders and decision‑makers