Senior Finance Partner | Not-for-Profit & Grants

Optimum Consulting; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Consulting in Brisbane is seeking a Senior Accountant to join a growing accounting and advisory team. You will partner with CFOs and manage a portfolio of major clients, performing budgeting, forecasting, complex Excel modelling and core accounting tasks.

The role involves hands-on month-end close, reconciliations, and supporting a small offshore team, with client-site days in Ipswich and Eight Mile Plains and one day in Brisbane CBD.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualified and eligible to practice.
• Minimum five years' experience in an Australian accounting environment.
• Experience in an accounting firm handling multiple clients and priorities.
• Strong month-end, reconciliation and management reporting capabilities.
• Proven budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis with advanced Excel.
• Confident communicator able to discuss financials with non-financial managers.
• Advanced Xero experience; grant or funding acquittal experience is highly regarded.
• Experience supervising remote or offshore teams preferred.
• Current driver's licence to travel between client sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead month end close including journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Manage the general ledger in Xero, bank feeds, clearing accounts and payroll flows.
• Own P&L accuracy and analyse results against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Prepare management reports and concise financial insights for leadership teams.
• Develop annual budgets, reforecasts, cash flow forecasts and scenario models with advanced Excel.
• Partner with managers to explain performance, cost drivers and budget responsibilities.
• Prepare grant and funding acquittals and maintain audit-ready records.
• Review and quality check work completed by bookkeepers and offshore team.
• Maintain SOPs, month end checklists and financial controls; drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Communication

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Advanced Excel

Leadership of remote/offshore teams

Education

CA or CPA

Tools

Xero

Employment Hero

Shiftcare

Job description

Optimum Consulting in Brisbane is seeking a Senior Accountant to join a growing accounting and advisory team. You will partner with CFOs and manage a portfolio of major clients, performing budgeting, forecasting, complex Excel modelling and core accounting tasks.

The role involves hands-on month-end close, reconciliations, and supporting a small offshore team, with client-site days in Ipswich and Eight Mile Plains and one day in Brisbane CBD.