Financial Accountant (12 month contract)

Company Description

Empower Australia’s Payments Future with Cuscal 

At Cuscal, your skills drive change and make a real impact. Whether you’re supporting our clients’ customers in our Fraud Operations Contact Centre or delivering innovative solutions in Product Delivery, your contribution helps shape the payments industry’s future. 

Join a team that values collaboration, innovation and excellence. With a focus on professional growth and flexibility, Cuscal is where you can thrive. 

Forward with Cuscal. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our dynamic Financial Reporting and Control team on a 12-month maximum term contract to provide support to the team during the implementation of new corporate systems.

In this key role as part of the Financial Reporting & Control (FR&C) team, you will be responsible for accounting and financial control duties covering month-end close, general ledger reconciliations, and maintaining a robust financial control and financial accounting environment.

You’ll also make an impact by:

Month End:

• Assist in the execution of month-end, half year and year-end close processes.
• Post assigned general journals and other central accounting tasks as part of the Group Finance month end close, ensuring proper documentation and approval.
• Ensure journals are accurate, complete, and comply with Australian Accounting Standards (AAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), as well as internal policy.

Financial Control:

• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data, as well as resolve and escalate reconciliation issues in accordance with policy.
• Maintenance of the Fixed Asset Register.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and accounting standards.
• Assist with external audits by providing necessary documentation and addressing audit queries.

Financial Reporting:

• Assistance in preparation of notes to financial statements, notes to balance sheet and income statements
• Assist in the production of monthly, half year and year end Board and Board Audit Committee reporting.
• Perform variance analysis as required and ensure timely and accurate reporting.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring

You’re an analytical thinker, who is detail orientated and can solve complex problems; you have excellent communications skills and a passion for accounting principles. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are driven to contribute to a dynamic team. 

To succeed in this role, you’ll have the following experience:

• 3+ years of experience in a financial accounting function
• Strong approach to financial control, particularly around the GL reconciliation process
• Sound experience in use of excel in accounting processes and reporting
• Ability to deliver to timelines
• Strong consideration of risk in day-to-day tasks

Although not required any experience in the following would be highly desirable:

• Experience with TM1 or similar application.
• Other relevant experience in the Financial Services Industry

Additional Information

Why Cuscal? 

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.   

Here, you’ll deliver or support interesting, ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves.  

You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. 

And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow.   

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including: 

• Recognition and growth: Celebrate achievements through IGNITE and grow with tailored development opportunities. 

• Wellbeing focus: Access initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial health, plus discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’ 

• Diversity and inclusion: Join a workplace that values different perspectives and flexible work arrangements. 

Join us and reimagine the future 

Ready to make an impact? Click APPLY to join Cuscal’s Procurement and Vendor Management team today. 

If you’re excited about this opportunity, we’d love to explore how you can contribute to our vision for the future. Screening and interviews may occur before the job ad closing date, so don’t wait - apply now. 

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.  

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.   

Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms.