It’s a great time to join our 8,000 friendly people at Ingham’s – one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest integrated protein producers.

Founded in 1918 as a family business, Ingham’s has a proud history and a bright future. Today, our business is undergoing substantial growth, where every day presents new and exciting opportunities to thrive.

With a positive attitude you can pursue your passion, grow your career and contribute to a business that is committed to demonstrating our values of care, courage, curiosity and commitment.

We’ve been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we’ve been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we’re always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand’s first choice for poultry.

Your opportunity to join us at North Ryde!

As the Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a crucial role within our Finance team, supporting the Group Finance Manager.

This role is responsible for providing high quality, accurate and timely financial accounting support to ensure compliance, enhance decision making and achieve business goals. A key focus of this role will be to apply a challenging mindset with a view to improve and enhance processes and controls.

Key responsibilities:

Perform monthly reporting of lease portfolio for the group and ensure compliance of IFRS 16 lease accounting standard
Prepare weekly/monthly/ad-hoc journal entries to ensure accuracy and completeness of the P&L and Balance Sheet
Perform month-end processes with a focus on ensuring the accuracy of all reconciliations
Assist with preparation of annual and half-yearly financial reports
Forecasting and budgeting for group expense
Conduct analysis of the general ledger on a monthly or ad-hoc basis, identifying variances against budget (or forecast) and last year and providing commentary explaining material variances
Prepare reports, reconciliations and supporting schedules for external audit team
Interpret, analyse and explain financial results to assist in building accountability and driving finance performance
Comply with internal controls while driving process improvement and best practices
Responsible for the implementation and delivery of an effective control environment, through the cascade of group policies and procedures
Lead, develop and mentor financial accountants

Key requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in finance / Accounting
CPA/ CA (or studying towards) desirable but not mandatory
BPCS – Accounting ERP
Ability to analyse data and information and translate it into business insights
Understanding of stakeholder engagement
Ability to frame a problem and influence an outcome
Intermediate Microsoft Excel

We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that’s… Always Good.

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