Consultant, Accounting Compliance & Reporting - Sydney

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About EY

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The opportunity

We are looking for a Consultant within the Accounting Compliance & Reporting team in our Sydney office. This role is offered on a flexible full time basis.

Your key responsibilities

• Support our clients with their accounting and statutory reporting obligations.
  
• Assist a range of local and inbound clients with their bookkeeping and management accounting needs including virtual CFO services.
• Support clients through their financial statement close process and preparation of statutory financial reports, including management accounting needs and the preparation of Australian Accounting Standards and/or IFRS financial statements.
  
• Work across multiple projects and clients both autonomously and as a team member, collaborating with our global network of resources.
  

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in preparing/reviewing statutory financial reports
• Previous experience in business and corporate services, preferably within chartered environment
• Completed or undertaking CA/CPA qualifications
• An audit background is preferable
• Knowledge of bookkeeping, management accounting and in particular technical skills related to month and year-end close-off processes including adjustments, reconciliations and reporting
• Understanding of the process to prepare financial statements
• Understanding and experience with statutory reporting review and the various Australian statutory reporting requirements
• Practical understanding of Australian Accounting Standards or International Financial Reporting Standards
• Excellent client facing skills with the confidence to build a network

Ideally, you'll also have

• Experience with cloud accounting packages including (Xero, Xero App's & MYOB)
• Experience with MS Dynamic NAV, SAGE and Netsuite would be preferable.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management/organisational skills.

Who are Tax?

EY's Tax practice believes a better working world is helping our clients navigate through a rapidly- changing business and tax environment. EY professionals combine agility, diverse thought, tax technical depth and the power of technology and analytics to provide exceptional value to clients by developing and executing strategies quickly and effectively, with strong accountability and governance. Learn more about Tax here.

What working at EY offers

Our Total Rewards package includes:

• formal or informal flexible working options e.g. remote working, flexible start and finish times
  
• career and learning development e.g. EY badges , career mentoring
  
• an extensive range of wellbeing and benefit offerings e.g. parental leave and support, health checks
  

Who we are

EY is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer offering a vast range of internal networks including Ability EY, our disability network, Unity, our LGBTI network and our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network enabling us all to embrace and value the diverse society we live within. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application via contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 1800 017 666.

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