R2R Accountant at 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 build 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.

‘Our SEEK’

At SEEK our biggest asset is our people, and we are proud of our community of valued, dedicated 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

This 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 provide valuable insights to assist the R2R team and senior collaborators with business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and deliver monthly reporting to the business, including clear interpretation of actual results, communication of drivers and implications for future financial performance.
• Deep understanding of transactions across SEEK Asia business and proficient with Philippines local statutory accounting standards
• Be an active contributor, advocate and collaborator in the R2R Finance team vision
• Supporting R2R 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

Essential Skills, Experience and Proficiencies

• CA / CPA /ACCA designation or equivalent or partly qualified
• Experience in a shared services environment dealing with cross border journal entry posting and month end closing activities.
• Minimum 5 years+ relevant accounting experience with proven track record for accuracy in a team-based environment
• 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
• Capability to handle 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
• Capacity to run their own workflow
• An exposure to personnel specific accounting would be viewed favorably

Are you ready to take on the challenge?! Apply Now!