At MECCA Brands - one of Australia and New Zealand's fastest-growing beauty retailers - Finance is central to how we scale. This is a high-impact opportunity for a driven Senior Financial Accountant to oversee inventory accounting and reporting, lead a small high-performing team, and drive continuous improvement across a fast-moving finance function on a Fixed Term Contract until October 2027.
This role plays a critical part in ensuring the integrity of inventory valuation and balance sheet positions, delivering accurate and timely financial reporting, and maintaining strong audit readiness. The role also provides leadership and oversight to a small team, supporting capability uplift and continuous improvement across finance processes.
The Role You Could Play:
Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will be responsible for overseeing inventory accounting, coordinating and driving team projects, leading key aspects of financial reporting, and acting as a key point of contact for external audit. You will:
Oversee and provide technical and commercial expertise on inventory accounting, valuation, landed costs and provisioning to ensure accurate financial reporting
Ensure strong balance sheet governance and month-end and support statutory reporting requirements particularly across inventory and related accounts.
Act as a key contact for external audit activities, ensuring audit readiness and driving continuous improvement in audit processes
Partner with Retail, Distribution, Supply Chain, Commercial and Sustainability teams to support business initiatives, inventory performance and ASRS reporting requirements
Lead, coach and develop a small team while contributing to finance transformation, systems enhancement and process improvement initiatives
What You Will Bring:
You are a technically strong finance leader who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and enjoys driving improvements. Ideally, you will bring:
CA/CPA qualification with significant experience in audit and financial accounting or a similar technical finance role
Strong technical accounting knowledge, including AASB/IFRS reporting standards and balance sheet governance
Experience managing inventory accounting, controls and reporting within a retail, FMCG or product-based environment
Proven ability to lead and develop teams while building strong relationships across a broad stakeholder group
A proactive mindset, strong analytical capability and a passion for continuous improvement and process optimisation
Your Life At MECCA
Whilst we are focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!
Some of our other team member benefits include:
Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering
Health and well-being initiatives
Reward and recognition programs
Access to bonus and incentive programs
Access to quarterly product allowance
Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy
There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way.
To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca and for all current opportunities, visit www.mecca.com.au/careers.
Skills Required
- CA or CPA qualification with significant audit and financial accounting experience
- Strong technical accounting knowledge including AASB and IFRS reporting standards
- Experience managing inventory accounting, controls and reporting in retail, FMCG or product-based environment
- Proven ability to lead, coach and develop a small team
- Experience acting as key contact for external audit and maintaining audit readiness
- Proactive mindset, strong analytical capability and passion for process improvement
What We Do
Since our very first day in 1997, our purpose has been to enable our customers to feel and look their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands (+ more), coupled with exceptional service. Fast forward to today, and we have over 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day. Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores, our Support Centre or our Distribution Centre (DC), you will be an integral part of the MECCA family. Our Retail Store teams are known for their energy, passion and expertise; bringing MECCA to life and helping us deliver on our purpose across four unique concepts – MECCA Cosmetica, MECCA Maxima, MECCA and our online stores (mecca.com.au and meccabeauty.co.nz). Working in our Support Centre will give you the opportunity to be part of high-impact, cross-functional projects, where you will get to immerse yourself in cutting-edge technologies and market-leading innovations. Not only do we work with over 150 of the best global beauty brands, we also develop, produce and distribute MECCA’s very own signature line of products. From supply chain to digital design, from software development to strategy, and everything in between, we are looking for diverse people from all backgrounds to continually challenge our way of thinking. Last but certainly not least, our rapidly expanding DC teams are the backbone of our operations and are key to the delivery of a seamless customer experience through online fulfillment and ensuring our stores have the right products at the right time.
