Senior Financial Account - 9 month contract

Hi. We're OFX, a leading financial operations company providing businesses and accounting firms with real-time financial control and visibility to do business anywhere in the world. With an innovative platform and 24/7 human support, OFX automates and simplifies doing business across borders, reducing risk and eliminating routine operational tasks. Offering global business accounts, payments to 180 countries in 30+ currencies and currency risk management solutions to simplify global payments. OFX further enhances business operations by providing corporate cards with spend management, bill payments, vendor management, and integrations with popular accounting and HRIS software, to help achieve better business solutions so accounting firms and businesses thrive.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices globally, in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. OFX has been a trusted innovator in global money movement for over 25 years.

Purpose of your role

This role will be a key source of financial and operational support to the APAC Financial Controller and Assistant Group Financial Controller in ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory financial reporting requirements, and timely and accurate taxation compliance for the region and Group.  This role will include providing support for the audits from both a financial statement and tax perspective, for the Group and the APAC subsidiaries, in addition to monthly and ad hoc accounting needs. 

What you do

• Support, as required, the half-year and full-year reporting of OFX Group results to the ASX, including involvement in the preparation of the consolidated financial report. Provide necessary assistance and supporting analysis to the external auditors (both local and overseas) as required in a timely manner.
• Support the preparation of the audited and unaudited financial reports for the APAC subsidiaries.
• Managing the payment process for tax instalments with various APAC region tax authorities and ensuring tax provision records reconcile to tax office statements.
• Involvement in the preparation of the income tax returns both for the Group and the APAC subsidiaries and provide assistance to the external tax advisers.
• Play an active role in the month-end financial close cycles including timetabling, team status meetings, completion of allocated tasks, and ensuring general ledger accounts are accurate and meet the recognition and measurement requirements of Australian and International accounting standards.
• Co-ordinate the monthly balance sheet reconciliations across the team, including preparation of key balances assigned to you.
• Lead the process of the quarterly balance sheet reconciliation review, analysis, and actively participate in the meeting with the CFO and other key stakeholders.
• Manage end-to-end process of completing the regulatory reporting for some of the APAC subsidiaries to ensure compliance with respective regulatory guidance and requirements.
• Support the APAC Financial Controller and Assistant Group Financial Controller, as required, to assist in undertaking research to understand new or amended accounting pronouncements and their relevance to OFX’s operations to make recommendations for application and initial implementation.
• Involvement in ad hoc Finance initiatives as necessary and agreed.

What you bring

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in accounting/business/commerce.
• CA/CPA qualified preferred.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Approximately 5-7 years’ experience in a financial accounting and reporting-focused role, including at a group level.
• Exposure to corporate income tax, including a basic understanding of current and deferred income tax.
• Able to monitor and meet multiple deadlines and competing priorities.
• Competent with business writing (accounting papers, board papers, qualitative annual report disclosures etc).
• Attention to detail.
• Flexible and creative problem solver.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Understanding of and experience in balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• ASX-listed experience preferred.
• ERP experience preferred (e.g. D365, NetSuite, Oracle, or SAP).
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

What it's like working at OFX

We’re OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We’re committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally, to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We're curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.

• Always keep learning. We offer a wide range of learning and career development opportunities to help every OFXer build their capacity and career, with leadership training, secondments, internal mobility and access to a large library of online learning.
• Make a difference. Through our Make a Difference program, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, which OFXers can use together or individually, as well as matched giving and the opportunity to nominate charity of choice every quarter.
• Reward and recognition. We recognise a job well done. OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers’ effort, technical expertise or support through a range of global and regional channels and awards, including quarterly and annual awards, milestones and shout outs.
• Showing our social side. Our Good Vibes employee-led committees around the globe organize events to help keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it’s a wellbeing activity, end of year celebration, or a monthly team get-together, our team wants you to feel welcome!
• Benefits that mean something. We offer a range of fantastic benefits, including primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks) or birthday leave, you'll feel well-supported at OFX.
• A great work environment. Enjoy work-life balance and flexibility with our hybrid work model, in an inclusive, diverse and non-hierarchal culture.

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At OFX, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please email us at [email protected].

We encourage you to apply if this role aligns with your career aspirations.