Senior Accountant - Permaconn

Our Company

Permaconn is a global leader in mission-critical connectivity solutions. Our solutions, offer a range of highly reliable and secure signalling and connectivity solutions across the security, fire and IOT sectors. We offer innovative solutions, and secure encrypted network provides critical alarm comms for high value industries including financial, retail, government and educational institutions.

We have been operating since 1999, and our headquarters are in Sydney. Today, Permaconn is an internationally recognised brand with our secure monitoring solutions covering the commercial, retail, and residential sectors in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Papua New Guinea.

The Opportunity

We value initiative, strong Excel skills, and a passion for making a real impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day accounting- ensure management accounting reporting is timely, accurate and provide analysis of operating performance, providing commercial insights to drive operational performance and profitability improvements.
• Preparation of monthly group and business unit level management and board reporting including consolidated income statements, balance sheets and statement of cash flows and trend analysis.
• Review and analysis of the business unit group level performance against budgets, forecasts and key drivers of financial performance and trend analysis.
• Full ownership of preparation of all financial statements and associated workpapers schedules to meet audit and bank requirements.

• Assist Financial Controller to coordinate end to end management of the audit process.
• Manage all key aspects of the external audit and queries.
• Manage all aspects of tax compliance (monthly, quarterly and annual), including income tax, payroll tax, FBT, GST etc.

• Ensure robust financial controls and processes are in place to manage and report accurately all revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities.
• Oversee the ongoing maintenance of accounting and reporting systems related specifically to the processing of finance and business transactions including the following systems: MYOB, Payroll (Employment Hero).
• Preparation of general journal entries to reflect correct accounting treatment in accordance with company policies, GAAP and IFRS.
• Reconciliation of general ledger accounts.
• Preparation of acquisition accounting and completion accounts together with supporting technical accounting papers.

• Involvement in key finance projects and being the SME/Champion for the system maintenance and administrative matters.
• Ongoing development, administration and support of Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools as a primary source of management reporting information to business stakeholders.
• Development and continual improvement of business processes to ensure efficient and effective reporting solutions are achieved and maintaining Data integrity (“one source of truth”).
• Support to the integration of newly acquired businesses to ensure relevant finance processes and policies are correctly implemented.

• Degree qualified in accounting; CA/CPA qualification preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience gained in Big 4 ideally from business services/private clients or audit division background.
• Highly organised and excellent attention to detail. Ability to handle multiple deadlines and strong time management skills
• Demonstrated experience in preparation of IFRS/AASB compliance financial statements and working on technical accounting issues.
• Naturally curious and a self-starter with demonstrated ability to undertake a project at their own initiative and achieve quality outputs.

• Logical/Problem Solver – think things through logically.
• You have an eye for patterns and meanings, and love tackling (and solving!) problems.
• Driven/Reliable – you enjoy taking responsibility and ownership of your work and consistently deliver good quality results.
• Team Player – you will leverage your ability to assist others to maintain a high-performance team.
• Resilient – even when things are difficult, you will continue to work through a positive outcome for our customers.
• Quick learner/Efficient – you are a quick learner, a great multi-tasker and effective in adopting new processes, techniques and best practices.

How to join us

Apply Now using your LinkedIn profile; however, we would love to know more. Therefore, we welcome the inclusion of a CV and/or attached a cover letter.

For further information, please contact our Internal talent acquisition Chloe at people@permaconn.com

No Agencies please and thank you.