Assistant Financial Accountant - 12 Month Contract

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Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Assist with daily finance tasks, including processing payments, managing invoices, reconciling accounts, and supporting month-end activities in a dynamic environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Who is Plenti?

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer experiences, Plenti is taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy, and automotive finance markets.
 
We are a fast moving and ambitious business that seeks to recruit smart and capable people, who can take ownership of their role to help the business thrive. With over 250 people based in Australia, Plenti is of a size where everyone can make a difference in their role and help us realise our very big ambitions as a team, as we go about building Australia’s best lender.
 
Plenti is a founder led business that launched in 2014, listed on the ASX since 2020 with annual revenue of over $250 million and a loan portfolio of over $2.5 billion.

Role Summary:

Reporting to the Group Finance Manager, you will be working in a team responsible for the core finance and tax functions. The activities performed by the team ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial results, strong control of financial resources, and delivery of insights that support decision-making across Plenti.
The assistant financial accountant will play an important role in ensuring the daily core finance activities are completed in an effective and timely manner.
The role is suited to an individual who is a team player, who is accurate and meticulous with problem-solving capabilities, and who has a continuous process improvement mindset.  It is also ideal for someone who is currently studying towards their CA/CPA qualification or plans to commence studies in the near future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performing daily finance activities, including but not limited to the management and processing of investor monies, allocation of borrower payments, uploading bank statements and BPAY files, and taking appropriate actions on unreconciled transactions
• Preparation of daily pay runs from our core technology platform and uploading payments into the banking systems for processing
•Accounts payable process, ensuring supplier invoices are coded into the accounting system accurately and paid on a timely basis
• Support accounts receivable processes, including invoice processing and payment reconciliation
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and investigate variances
• Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations and aging analyses
• Preparing and posting manual journals into the accounting system (NetSuite and Xero) for month-end reporting
• Processing debt recoveries received from external debt collectors on a timely basis
• Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities (journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations)
• Assist with preparing daily pay-runs from our core technology platform and uploading payments into the banking systems for timely approvals for processing
• Preparation of trust accounting reconciliation and posting into the accounting system
• Preparation of allocated BAS returns
• Participate in audits by gathering schedules, supporting documentation, and responding to auditor inquiries
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve billing, invoicing, and expense issues
• Contribute process-improvement ideas to increase efficiency and accuracy

Key Competencies:

This role is suited to someone earlier in their finance career, but who is ambitious and wants to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, and fun environment where they can grow and develop over time. Attributes that will make you right for the role include:
• Experience with bank reconciliations and GL reconciliations
• Excellent time management skills
•Ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines
• Comfortable managing large volumes of transactions with a high attention to detail
• High degree of self-motivation and willingness to take ownership of tasks and deliver high-quality outcomes
• Continuous development mindset, with confidence to communicate issues and to implement solutions, and then follow up
• Advanced Excel skills and ideally some experience with accounting systems such as NetSuite, Xero, or similar
• Flexibility and ability to build strong relationships, operate effectively within cross-functional teams
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-changing environment

What's life like at Plenti?

Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It’s a place where everyone can “make it happen” and share in the results and success. If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then join to help us reshape Australia’s financial eco-system for the good.

In return, you will enjoy a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to take your career further. We offer flexible working and volunteer and study leave to develop your skills. We also have monthly social events, office snacks, company Townhalls and D&I initiatives and events to help you connect with your colleagues. 
Plenti is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disabilities. When you apply, let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process so we can accommodate you. 

Top Skills

Excel
NetSuite
Xero
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The Company
Sydney, New South Wales
233 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Plenti is building Australia's best lender.

Our smart technology offers faster and fairer car, renewable energy and personal loans to help borrowers bring their big ideas to life. We've also helped more than 27,000 investors earn strong, stable returns by investing in loans to creditworthy Australians.

We've originated more than $3.5 billion in loans since establishment, with our strong growth supported by diversified distribution channels and funding, and underpinned by our exceptional credit performance and continual innovation.
We've won more than 30 awards for our outstanding loan products, and have been recognised in the Deloitte Technology Fast50, Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500, AFR Fast 100, and the FT High-Growth Companies Asia Pacific.

Plenti listed on the ASX in September 2020

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