Atlas Partners
11 months ago
Senior Financial Accountant
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Company information
- Company
- Atlas Partners
- Location
- Australia, Victoria, Melbourne Region, Melbourne Australia
- Posted
- 11 months ago
Job description
Atlas Partners is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant for our client in the SE Melbourne suburbs. This is a pivotal role in the planning and delivery of monthly reporting, quarterly forecasting, and annual budgeting. This is a hands-on, high-visibility position that blends technical financial reporting with commercial insight, mentoring, and process improvement.
Working within a high-performing finance team, you’ll partner closely with senior leaders, the Commercial Finance team, and broader internal stakeholders. You’ll bring structure, clarity, and value-add analysis to support strategic business decisions, while also helping uplift systems and capability across the function.
The Perks:
*Please note sponsorship is not available for this position
Working within a high-performing finance team, you’ll partner closely with senior leaders, the Commercial Finance team, and broader internal stakeholders. You’ll bring structure, clarity, and value-add analysis to support strategic business decisions, while also helping uplift systems and capability across the function.
The Perks:
- Work with a respected leadership team and influence business direction through insights and reporting
- Broad scope across management accounting, forecasting, budgeting, and continuous improvement
- Genuine career development platform with mentoring responsibilities and future progression opportunities
- Supportive, high-performing finance team culture
- Own and deliver the month-end accounting cycle, ensuring accurate and timely management accounts
- Prepare and present month-end management accounts, quarterly forecasts, and annual budgets, including variance analysis and clear commentary for stakeholders
- Oversee and contribute to monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant accounting standards
- Provide commercial analysis and interpret results to identify improvement opportunities and recommend remedial actions
- Partner with the Finance Manager to support monthly Business Performance Reports
- Identify, instigate, and implement process improvement initiatives, including technology enhancements and best-practice reporting approaches
- Assist in the annual budget and rolling forecast cycles, helping ensure robust assumptions and aligned stakeholder inputs
- Coach and mentor junior finance team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and development
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in accounting/finance roles, ideally with Big 4 and/or large corporate reporting exposure
- Degree-qualified in Accounting/Finance and CA/CPA qualified
- Strong technical financial reporting skills and deep understanding of management accounting disciplines
- Advanced Excel capability and confident working across large datasets and reconciliations
- Proven ability to engage senior stakeholders, explain complex financial matters clearly, and influence outcomes
- Proactive, resilient, and improvement-minded comfortable managing competing priorities under pressure
- Highly analytical, detail-focused, and commercially oriented
*Please note sponsorship is not available for this position
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