SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.
Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.
SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.
In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.
About the role
This Senior Accountant role has a strong personnel focus and will be part of the Record to Report function across ANZ and Asia. You will partner with the business to deliver as a team, the monthly management reporting; process improvements and commercial insights for SEEK across the APAC region.
To be successful in this position you will need to be an energetic self-starter with strong commercial and analytical skills. The ideal background is someone with strong management reporting skills; an ability to implement process improvements; and has strong commercial acumen to lead a squad in creating robust personnel analysis and valuable insights to assist senior stakeholders with business decisions.
Job Description- Prepare and deliver personnel reporting to the business, including clear interpretation of actual results, communication of drivers and implications for future financial performance.
- Deep understanding of Personnel across ANZ and Asia – working closely with the People & Culture teams to ensure accurate reporting and accounting treatment of personnel costs
- Coach and guide a geographically diverse team of junior accountants
- Be an active contributor, advocate and collaborator in the R2R Finance team vision
- Supporting Finance Managers to deliver strong financial controls and record financial results in-line with SEEK Group accounting policies and IFRS
- Work collaboratively across Finance teams to continuously improve the speed and automation of financial data capture, reconciliation, reporting, analysis and insight generation
- Support the bi-annual audit process for the relevant business segment and liase with external auditors where necessary
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field
- CA / CPA designation or equivalent
- Experience in commercial analysis roles
- Experience in preparation and accountability for business unit P&Ls and balance sheets
- Self-starter with the ability to interpret and communicate commercial insights to decision makers
- Passionate for enhancing business processes and information systems to optimise the capture of information
- An ability to manage large volumes of information and manipulate this through advanced Excel skills and data visualisation tools
- Strong interpersonal skills to build robust working relationships within a dynamic team environment
- Experience in coaching and guiding junior accountants within a team
- An ability to manage their own workflow
- Exposure to personnel specific accounting would be viewed favourably
Additional Information
- Experience managing remote team members, including people from other cultures
- Hands-on working experience with Workday Financials, Oracle ARCS & Reporting, and Power BI
- Experience working in a shared services environment
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with a diverse group of backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable approach but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050.
