Hybrid Senior Financial Accountant

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About the role

  • Senior Financial Accountant managing daily accounting operations for Dentons. Delivering end-to-end Partner Services and financial information across the finance team.

Responsibilities

  • Day ‑ to ‑ day accounting operations, including journals, accruals and prepayments.
  • Ledger maintenance and ensuring compliance with accounting standards (AASB/IFRS).
  • Prepare daily cash flow reports, monitor cash movements, and provide recommendations based on cash flow outcomes to support decision making.
  • Complete month ‑ end close process including monthly P&L reviews, variance analysis, and commentary against budgets
  • Assist in the preparation of board reporting packs and management reporting
  • Review all monthly balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules prepared by junior team members.
  • Provide financial information and analysis to support budgeting and forecasting.
  • Ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and firm policies, as well as tax compliance and other statutory obligations,
  • Coordinate external audit activities and prepare audit documentation.
  • Mentor junior team members, providing guidance and review of their work.
  • Deliver end ‑ to ‑ end Partner Services, including onboarding, offboarding, and all weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processes.
  • Manage the Partner Services inbox, ensuring timely, accurate, and service ‑ focused responses.
  • Maintain and assist with partner remuneration, benefits, documentation and records.
  • Process monthly and quarterly partner ‑ related transactions such as drawings and top ‑ ups, ensuring compliance with ATO PCG rule 2021/4.
  • Support year ‑ end profit distribution and tax ‑ related processes, including preparing annual partner tax packs statements, draw and top up statements, and dividend entitlements calculations.

Requirements

  • CA or CPA qualified with 5+ years’ experience ideally within a large professional services firm.
  • Sound understanding of management accounting, cash flow, budgeting and forecasting.
  • Experience using a Practice Management System (Preferably 3E)
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Excel.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engagement effectively with senior stakeholders and work collaboratively within a team.

Benefits

  • Equitable salary packaging, incentive pay and rewards
  • Salary continuous insurance (for permanent employees or employees on a 6 month or more maximum term contract basis)
  • Salary sacrificing and novated leases
  • 5 days Bonus Leave per year after 12 months of service
  • Additional leave options
  • Equal family leave for all genders (including kinship groups)
  • Floating public holidays for days of cultural significance
  • Exclusive retailer discounts
  • Offices designed for collaboration on Gadigal, Naarm, Yuggera, Kaurna and Whadjuk land
  • Learning & Development opportunities
  • Generous health and wellbeing programs
  • Agile and flexible working for all
  • Social and diversity networks providing year-round events
  • Opportunities to undertake pro-bono legal work

Job title

Senior Financial Accountant

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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