Assistant Accountant

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Circular Economy Systems Full time

At CES, we have ambitious targets to keep billions of drink containers out of landfill and transform them into resources that can be used again and again. To do this, we provide software and services (including financial accounting services) to recycling schemes around Australia.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, in this Assistant Accountant role you will support the Financial Accountant and wider finance team by helping to prepare financial statements, accounts, processing invoices and preparing statutory returns. You will help the team finalise month-end and year-end accounts, and you'll interact with a variety of internal stakeholders including IT, contact centre and the wider finance team. You'll use an enterprise-level ERP system (Oracle Fusion Financials) and help drive continuous improvement of our processes and systems.

If you have at least a year of financial accounting work experience, a relevant degree and you are looking for an Assistant Accountant role where you have stakeholder interaction and the opportunity to grow your technical skills – this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Come and make a difference in an organisation supporting sustainability and the circular economy – and enjoy our hybrid working and beautiful harbour views

Key deliverables of the role include:

  • Bank reconciliations for all bank accounts including daily consumer payments.
  • Reconciliation of weekly payments
  • Assist with month end and year end journals, reconciliations and financial reporting.
  • Reviewing and processing of scheme participant adjustments
  • Attending to client/customer related queries
  • Assist in Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable functions where needed.
  • Assist Finance team in ad hoc analytical tasks, reports generation and preparation
  • Assist with the calculation/processing of credit and debit adjustments, refund requests and write offs
  • Assist with the annual internal audit and external audit of the scheme.
  • Ensure company policies and procedures are adhered to, particularly those relating to accounting and finance policies
  • Documenting, vetting and if required, changing processes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the role.
Desired Skills and Experience

About you:

  • At least 1 year of financial accounting experience is required
  • 3 years' total work experience across the finance function
  • Experience with Oracle Fusion Financials or similar enterprise level ERP is required.
  • Experience with BI tools and reporting is a plus
  • Good Excel skills (incl Pivot tables, V-lookups) is a must-have
  • Strong and clear communication skills, with a customer service mindset (for working with internal and external stakeholders)
  • Open and direct collaborative working style.
  • Results driven, proactive, self-motivated and has the drive to take responsibility for deliverables.
  • A keen eye for process improvements and troubleshooting
  • Excellent at problem solving, with strong attention to detail.
  • Accounting related degree or equivalent work experience.

About CES

Accelerating the transition to a circular economy

We are proud to be an active contributor in the circular economy through container deposit schemes (10c refund for eligible drink containers). We help our scheme partners to recycle close to 10 million drink containers every day, diverting them from landfill into the circular economy.

Our technology and services enable the circular lifecycle of drink containers. We have a large in-house software engineering team using modern technology stacks to develop and support our products. As well as a suite of SaaS products, our range of business services includes accounting, payments, brand & marketing, materials trading, HR, customer service and support.

CES was formed in 2017 as a joint venture between Lion and Coca-Cola Euro pacific Partners and has grown rapidly. We are headquartered in North Sydney, near public transport with beautiful harbour views. Our teams are passionate about our mission to ensure valuable materials are recycled and not wasted. We provide an inclusive culture, hybrid and flexible working and career development to bring the best out in our people.

Originally known as Container Exchange Services, we have rebranded to Circular Economy Systems to recognise our vision to be leaders in the transition to a circular economy.

NOTE: We can only consider candidates with full Australian work rights in place; no agencies please

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