Opportunity brief
Talent Formula (www.talentformula.co) is a consulting firm that offers outsourced financial and accounting Human Resources to Chartered Accounting firms worldwide. We currently have a Senior Accountant Business Advisory position available with our client, BDJ. They require Senior Accountants to join their team as part of their offshore growth strategy.
Specific Technical Skills:
- Qualified or Semi-qualified CA or MBA.
- Over 5 years of post-graduate experience in Australian accounting within professional practice firms.
- Experience in working on XPM and Active Workpapers.
- Proficient in MYOB (Australian experience), Xero, Reckon, Client Accounting or other common ERPs.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Knowledge of payroll regulations.
- Knowledge of GST matters.
- Clear communication with managers.
- Attention to detail about descriptions in accounting files, BAS work papers, payroll processes and month-end work papers.
- Ability to identify issues or errors in accounting files and communicate these to managers.
- Fixed asset knowledge including disposal of assets.
- Ability to identify tax issues.
- Proficient in identifying matters and differences about tax rates, tax concessions and
- ATO offsets and bonus deductions.
- Knowledge of different types of entity.
- Efficient in working within budgets and deadlines.
- Previous exposure to technical issues, complex structures and larger client groups is required.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Initial responsibilities will include the preparation of individual income tax returns and eventually progress to supervising the work of another more junior accountant in due course.
- Complete processing of year-end work for individuals, trusts, partnerships, and companies.
- Preparation of work papers for all material P&L accounts and all balance sheet accounts.
- Reconciliation of sales, GST, payroll tax and all balance sheet accounts.
- Identify Div7a issues.
- Prepare CGT calculations.
- Prepare income tax reconciliations, income tax return workpapers and income tax returns.
- Identify tax-efficient trust distributions and dividend payments.
- Prepare a list of matters identified for the manager and partner to discuss with the client.
- Prepare year-end documents for client sign-off including dividend statements, company minutes and year-end letters.
- Preparation and posting of alignment journals once the year-end job is completed.
How to apply?
To be considered for this role, you must complete 3 steps:
- Apply to this job on Naukri and upload your resume
- Complete the Skills Tests for this role. You must follow the link below and complete the testing assessments. The first assessment is a Skills Test, to assess your technical ability and numerical reasoning.
- Complete the Psychometric Test for this role
If you successfully clear the Skills Test, you will be redirected to a Psychometric Test to assess how you think and make decisions. To complete these tests, you must go to https://es.peoplogicaskills.com/es/quiz?testId=51b39e7c2778c1cd and complete the assessments. If you do not complete the assessments then you will not be considered for the role.