Management Accountant

At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children's lives. It's what we've been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we've built a trusted reputation as Queensland's leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

As a Management Accountant your duties will include:

• Lead the preparation of the annual budget.
• Preparation of monthly management reports tracking financial performance against budget.
• Supporting department managers as a 'Finance Business Partner' to understand their unit's financial performance against budget.
• Support affiliated kindergartens with budgeting, fee setting and providing support and guidance to committees on financial viability.
• Ensure timely delivery of monthly reports and analysis, including assisting with the CFO report.
• Support the implementation and utilisation of business intelligence systems.
• Provide training across the business to help non-financially minded employees gain a better understanding of their financial performance.
• Prepare grant/funding acquittals and ensure on time submission where required.
• Proactively identify, drive and implement process improvements.
• Ensure on time completion of statutory reporting, review inputs from other accountants/assistant accountants to ensure accuracy, attend to audit queries.
• Provide financial analysis, guidance and support to the business where required.
• Work across departments to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations, managing associated risks, evolving frameworks, and representing these to senior management.

"I love being part of an organisation whose vision is to see a state 'where every child flourishes'. I value the opportunity to contribute, even in a small way, to the impactful work that is being done in the early childhood education sector." - Alex Bron, Management Accountant

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We'll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 35% of the gap fee.
• Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
• BUPA health insurance discounts
• Funded Blue Card and National Police Check.
• Take your career to new heights with professional development opportunities.
• Support the growth of our teams and earn a $1000 referral bonus reward.
• Plus so much more.

What you'll bring:

Qualifications:

• Degree in an Accounting, Commerce or Business-Related Field
• Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA), CIMA or ACCA qualification (or equivalent)

Experience:

• Experience in a Management Accountant position in a medium-to-large organisation delivering financial reporting and analysis that meets business needs.
• A track record of identifying and understanding financial and non-financial trends and data and developing business improvements

If you're committed to guiding children's early learning and development, we'll set you up for success

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Current Police Check

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a 'Restricted Person' or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.