Senior Financial Accountant
Dentons
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
accounting operationsledger maintenancecash flow reportingmonth-end close processvariance analysisbudgetingforecastingfinancial analysisaudit documentationpartner remuneration
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationdecision makingguidance
Certifications
CACPA