Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant

Ready to stop just reporting the numbers and start understanding what drives them?

This isn’t your typical Assistant Accountant role. It’s an opportunity to build your commercial finance career with hands-on exposure to management accounting, business partnering, budgeting, forecasting and analysis.

Working closely with an experienced Finance Business Partner, you’ll help turn financial information into meaningful insights and support department managers in understanding business performance.

About us:

Signet is a leading packaging company that is committed to delivering exceptional products and services. Over the past 55 years, we've grown into Australia's leading packaging company with a national footprint of production and warehouse facilities located in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Townsville and Perth.

About the role:

In this role, you’ll play an active part in driving financial success by:

·       Assisting with monthly management reporting and financial analysis

·       Investigating results, anomalies and key movements

·       Supporting the annual budgeting and bi-annual forecasting processes

·       Working with managers to understand their financial performance

·       Preparing analysis and commentary to support decision-making and to provide insights to the business

·       Assisting with inventory costing and provisioning

About you:

The successful applicant will ideally possess:

·       A degree in Accounting, Finance or Business

·       Experience in an Assistant Accountant, Analyst Support or similar role

·       Strong Excel and analytical skills coupled with experience using large ERP systems

·       Exposure to management reporting, month end journal entries and budgeting

·       An inquisitive mindset and strong attention to detail

·       Ability to handle pressure, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines

·       Confidence communicating and building relationships across the business

CPA or CA studies are desirable (completed or underway), while experience with Microsoft Business Central, inventory costing or manufacturing would be an advantage.

As a member of the Signet team, you will be offered a range of benefits including:

·       Birthday Leave

·       Need to visit a physiotherapist? We have one onsite for complimentary use for team members.

·       Access to qualified Employee Assistance Program. Available 24/7/365.

·       Length of service recognition program celebrates and rewards milestones with the Company. Our average tenure is 7 years.

·       Employee of the Month Awards recognising employees who go above and beyond.

·       Training and development opportunities

·       Paid parental leave

Ready for your next step?

If you’re commercially curious and want to build towards a career in Finance Business Partnering, this is an opportunity to broaden your experience and learn how Finance helps drive better business decisions.

Apply now and make your next career move count.

Applicants must have unrestricted working rights to work in Australia / New Zealand. On this occasion, we will not consider applicants who require sponsorship.