How you’ll make an impact
The Senior Financial Accountant role is established to help deliver quality financial information and drive continuous improvement across the Financial Accounting team. You will have a thorough understanding of the Xero business environment and be an expert in process improvement and getting the best use out of financial systems. You will act as a leader within the Accounting Team and work collaboratively across the rest of the finance team.
What you'll do
- Be a key part of the team that drives Xero’s month end close process and reporting, owning key areas including CAPEX, leases and cashflow
- Review/understanding of wider functions/P&L, ability to analyse financial results and identify trends and anomalies and reasoning behind this
- Support the half year/annual reporting cycles, including contributing to the reporting and audit processes
- Support and drive reporting and audit processes for foreign subsidiaries compliance
- Take initiative, driving change and improvements across the team and wider functions - particularly leveraging finance systems (including the month end close process)
- Supervise, support and mentor other members of the Accounting Team
- Review junior accountants’ work
- Have a strong understanding of IFRS, including providing management with conclusions, suggesting solutions and identifying risks
- Own specific non BAU projects and delivery in accordance with specified deadlines
- Strong relationships outside of finance, as evidenced by being a key contact to business owners
Success looks like
- Building effective relationships with Xeros, both within finance and across the wider organisation
- Demonstrating an ability to find efficiencies, and improvements in processing activities
- Quality, accuracy and timeliness of work
What you’ll bring with you
- Critical competencies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both with members of Finance and with other areas of the business
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong planning, organisational, problem solving and self-management skills
- Drive and initiative
- A genuine team player who works collaboratively with and contributes to the function of a high performing team
- Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in large corporate or Big 4 CA environments
- Qualified CA (or equivalent)
- History of process improvement
- Specific experience with software companies desirable but not essential
