Senior Accountant, Financial Control

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helps organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation. Find out more about us by visiting https://www.seek.com.au/about/.

‘Our SEEK’

At SEEK our biggest asset is our people, and we are proud of our community of valued, talented and diverse individuals who really know their stuff. Our culture statement, Our SEEK, is all about what makes SEEK unique and a little bit different. Our SEEK clearly outlines the Principles and the Behaviours of our best people, which include:

• Passion: we are passionate about SEEK, our purpose, our customers and our community
• Team: we care about each other and collaborate to achieve together
• Delivery: we execute with excellence and achieve great results
• Future: we think and act for the long term

The Team

The Financial Control team’s purpose is to ensure SEEK’s financial records and reports are timely, consistent, reliable and accurate. Working closely with the Record to Report (R2R) team and other centres of expertise, the team looks after consolidation and reporting of the Group’s financial results, technical accounting and managing the group’s financial audit.

Over the last 2 years SEEK’s Finance team has transitioned from multiple individual country Finance teams to one APAC team and has been progressively introducing standardised, centralised processes. In addition, SEEK is transitioning auditor during FY27.

Reporting to one of the Finance Managers – Financial Control, the Senior Accountant will play a key part in the Group’s consolidation and statutory financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Preparation of monthly consolidated results for the SEEK Group, including:

• Importing monthly results into the FCCS Consolidation tool for assigned SEEK Group entities (subsidiaries and/or associates) and preparing associated consolidation journals in a timely and accurate manner
• Preparation of and reporting on balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts and entities
• Preparation of and reporting on consolidated balance sheet and cash flow analytics
• Supporting and ensuring accuracy of the Group’s intercompany processes
• Ensuring that accounting and consolidation issues identified in the close process are properly resolved
• Identifying and rolling out process improvements (including AI-driven) to aid with efficiency, controls, and scalability

Preparation of statutory financial reporting, including:

• Support the preparation of year end consolidated financial statements
• Preparation of standalone statutory financial statements for assigned companies
• Liaising with external auditors in relation to the financial statements
• Identifying and rolling out process improvements to aid with efficiencies, controls, and scalability

Financial Control activities, including:

• Monitoring preparation of and periodically reviewing subsidiaries’ balance sheet reconciliations
• Assisting with quality reviews of SEEK Group entities’ trial balances
• Periodic deep dives on specific balances to confirm compliance with Group policies

Ad hoc activities as and when they arise, including:

• Accounting for significant transactions (acquisitions, disposals, etc)
• Performing and presenting technical accounting research
• Assisting with projects to improve financial processes, policies or controls

Key Stakeholders

• Finance Services team
• Company Secretarial team
• Treasury team
• Tax team
• External auditors

Skills and experience

• CA/CPA qualified (or equivalent), with 3+ years post qualification experience (preferably Big 4 accounting firm background and some additional ‘hands-on’ industry experience)
• Experience preparing or auditing complex multi-currency consolidations
• Experience preparing or auditing financial statements
• Strong knowledge of AASB or IFRS accounting standards, comfortable performing research to propose solutions to accounting treatment questions
• Ability to piece together complex accounting concepts and think ahead to any flow-on impacts of accounting decisions
• Strong track record of effectively collaborating with different teams, including people and teams working remotely
• Great investigative and problem-solving skills
• Great communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong GPT prompting skills to achieve efficient outcomes
• Experience with Oracle SmartView and Workday Financials advantageous, but not essential

Attitude

• Thrives when working with uncertainties and ambiguity
• A growth mindset, embracing learning opportunities and always looking to improve
• Balances pace and progress with perfection