Senior Financial Accountant

Hi. We’re OFX, a global provider of online, international payment services. We solve the complexity of moving money and enable better decisions. Headquartered in Sydney with offices worldwide, we’re a customer-focused business that is all about inspiring customer confidence.

At OFX, you’ll have the opportunity to reach beyond your role and function across disciplines. Make use of your diverse skill set at a business that values your expertise and turn your potential into reality.

Purpose of your role

This role will be a key source of financial and operational support to the Senior Finance Manager and Group Financial Controller, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory financial reporting requirements, as well as timely and accurate global taxation compliance. This role will provide key support for audits from both a financial statement and tax perspective, for the Group and the subsidiaries, in addition to monthly and ad hoc accounting needs.

What you do

• Support the half-year and full-year reporting of OFX Group results to the ASX, including involvement in the preparation of the consolidated financial report. Provide necessary assistance and supporting analysis to the external auditors (both local and overseas) as required in a timely manner.
• Support the preparation of the audited and unaudited financial reports for the subsidiaries.
• Managing the payment process for tax instalments with various regions’ tax authorities and ensuring tax provision records reconcile to tax office statements.
• Involvement in the preparation of the income tax returns both for the Group and the foreign subsidiaries and provide assistance to the external tax advisers.
• Play an active role in the month-end financial close cycles including timetabling, team status meetings, completion of allocated tasks, and ensuring general ledger accounts are accurate and meet the recognition and measurement requirements of Australian and International accounting standards.
• Co-ordinate the monthly balance sheet reconciliations across the team, including preparation of key balances assigned to you.
• Lead the process of the quarterly balance sheet reconciliation review, analysis, and actively participate in the meeting with the CFO and other key stakeholders.
• Manage end-to-end process of completing the regulatory reporting for some of the OFX subsidiaries to ensure compliance with respective regulatory guidance and requirement.
• Support the Senior Finance Manager and Technical Accounting Manager, as required, to assist in undertaking research to understand new or amended accounting pronouncements and their relevance to OFX’s operations to make recommendations for application and initial implementation.
• Involvement in ad hoc Finance initiatives as necessary and agreed.

Requirements

What you bring

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in accounting/business/commerce.
• CA/CPA qualified preferred.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Approximately 5-7 years’ experience in a financial accounting and reporting-focused role, including at a group level.
• Exposure to corporate income tax, including a basic understanding of current and deferred income tax.
• Able to monitor and meet multiple deadlines and competing priorities.
• Competent with business writing (accounting papers, board papers, qualitative annual report disclosures etc).
• Flexible and creative problem solver.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Understanding of and experience in balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• ASX-listed experience preferred.