Finance Manager - ANZ

Job Purpose:

Reporting to Regional Finance Head. Support to Home Office Controller, Central FP&A Department, , Company Management, and external partners in financial reporting, tax compliance, sales reporting, audits & compliances, regulatory & business, treasury & cashflow support to ensure financial integrity of the statutory and management accounting records/group management accounts

Key Accountabilities:

1. Financial Closing:

• Reviews IFRS compliant, consolidated monthly/quarterly/annual group accounts
• Review GTN provisions, Cross Charge workings, LRD model testing and IFC testing on monthly basis
• Manages and ensures the monthly BPC uploads are done according to deadlines
• Develops and reviews financial and operational reports/models for company management and global reporting
• Facilitates the process in preparing statutory, consolidated annual financial statements, compliant with IFRS and the Companies Act
• Share journal entries for payroll, statutory transactions, accruals & Provision for posting with FSS & rigorous review
• Tracking of Fixed Assets & intangibles
• Complete remarks for P&L & Balance sheet Variance Analysis and shared corporate team as per closing deadline
• Ensures that there is consistency in the accounting reflected by corporate closing score
• Ensures foreign exchange is consistently accounted across AU and NZ region for management reporting
• Provide financial information to external business partners like banks, insurance broker, auditors (internal & external)
• Assists with monthly and annual closing of accounting records
• Intercompany reconciliations
• Closely working with Statutory Auditors and Internal Auditors and ensuring timely closure of audits in tight deadlines.
• Coordinating with IT team for developments in SAP, testing of developments, template preparation
• Preparation regular sales updates
• Review Payroll tax, Super and leave liability working shared by HR
• Review quarterly Sales Incentive working shared by Business against sales Incentive scheme for the period.

Tax, Audit & Compliance:

• Coordinating with Statutory Auditor to ensure timely Audit closure
• Help in other audits – Revenue Audit, Internal Audit etc
• Ensure compliance with direct Tax, GST, FBT etc.
• Closing Transfer Pricing on a quarterly basis, Coordinate with Tax consultant to ensure Transfer pricing returns are filed on time
• Timely payments to Government for all Taxes
• Continued checks on Internal Compliance –HR, Payroll and other functions
• Collaborate with Tax Consultant for quarterly income tax calculations and ensure the timely filing of tax return, FBT return, local file with ATO and Annual return ASIC.
• Calculate provisional tax payment amounts
• Resolve all tax related queries
• Responsible for obtaining Tax clearance certificates
• Update the Compliance portal with assigned compliance task and timely submission
• Collaborate for secretarial obligation with internal and external Company secretory.

Audit & Compliances:

• Ensuring on going compliance to all external stakeholders
• Ensuring smooth audit support & outcome (no material observation)

Sales Reporting & Review:

• Review daily sales report and support to business partners; includes support to SFE team for sales dashboard review
• Review GTN items in accordance with revenue recognition policies; lead discussion with finance head and controller

Price disclosure:

• Lead 6th Monthly retail price disclosure to PBS post internal discussion with business teams
• Ensure rigorous pricing agenda & cadence for retail pricing
• Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation

Claims review & automation:

• Lead retail claim coordination with business and rigorous review to ensure timely booking and closure of discrepancies
• Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation
• Lead claims automation process along with finance head & regional controller; scoping & liaising with external parties

ARTG Review & submission:

• Partner with regulatory team for accurate annual submission on timely basis and proactively partner with business for driving cost savings on regulatory filing fee and reimbursement from customers / B2B partners
• Ensure rigorous payment cadence along with FSS for TGA filings inline with SOP / internal tracking mechanism

Treasury & cashflow:

• Prepare and review quarterly cashflow for entity as well as annual budget
• Lead discussions with banking partners and with treasury / corporate secretarial teams for compliances
• Review funding requirements (including financial products) and support finance head in Liaoning with internal (Treasury) and external stakeholders (Bank)
• Review and authorise payments on the banking portal
• Administer employee credit card, share monthly statement with Card holder and ensure timely accounting of expenses
• Reconcile bank transactions monthly

Accounts Payables:

• Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following
• Coordinate new vendor onboarding and manage vendor agreements records
• Raise Service POs as per request and record GRN for Services rendered
• FSS team in India for the accounting of payables
• Cross-charges transactions with subsidiary/holding company finance teams

Accounts Receivables:

• Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following
• Collate remittance advices, discount & rebate Claims and ensure timely accounting.
• Timely receipt of cashflow as per due date and support discussion with customer post outreach by home office including and minimise DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) and other KPIs
• Verify customer discounts and rebate claims, discussing discrepancies with Retail Business Head & Regional finance head.

Educational Qualifications:

• Qualified / Completed - CA / CA / CPA / MBA
• Self starter and enterprising with good communication skills
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Experience with Accounting Software – SAP
• Knowledge of local & statutory compliances

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum 5-8 Years of experience in Accounting & Audit in Australia
• Experience working with global and geographically dispersed stakeholders is preferred