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Management Accountant

Location:

aberdare

Salary:

Competitive

Job Type:

permanent

Contact:

Megan Duncan

Paintback® is Australia’s national scheme for diverting second-hand architectural and decorative paint and packaging from landfill. This is an industry-led initiative, operating in a dynamic environment.

Their vision is to turn paint and its packaging’s colourful past into a brighter future of responsible disposal and innovative re-use.

Paintback’s role is to deliver a net environmental benefit through improved stewardship outcomes in developing higher resource recovery outcomes for unwanted paint.

As Paintback’s innovation cycle accelerates, it is foreseen that developing a robust HSEQ framework is mission critical and is necessary to improving stewardship outcomes, operationalise the business, fostering a safety-aware culture and de-risk supply chain activities.

Reporting to the Senior Commercial and Finance Manager, the Management Accountant is a key organisational role, with the following priorities in supporting the abovementioned facility's management team:

Excellence in the operational execution of financial accounting and reporting deliverables, including the accurate accounting, and reporting of key transactions
Compliance with accounting standards, business policies and current tax
Strong governance via embedding of robust accounting and financial procedures to own and improve the accuracy of financial information.
Oversight, monitoring, and reporting controls to identify issues promptly and proactively, with an ability to recommend solutions and preventive measures.
Accountability for financial accounting and analysis, month end close, audit and support for taxation, payroll, forecasts, and budgets.
Integrate with Paintback’s risk governance framework and enterprise risk system:
Support and manage a culture of safety first and customer-centric quality.

Key Reporting Relationships:

The role reports to the Senior Commercial and Finance Manager Key internal stakeholders include the Chief Executive, the Leadership Team and Operations Manager.

Key responsibilities:

Classifying of costs between major product categories (such as labour, overheads, capital investment and benchmarking)
Establishing inventory valuations for management reporting
Participating in the financial and management reporting processes
Assisting with preparing capital expenditure requests
Preparing costing for new technological advancements in plant growing processes
Liaising with site administration and support staff in the execution of costing and accounting practices
Compile reports to inform the organisation of internal audit findings, risk profiles, non-conformity to contractual and legal requirements, incident (safety & quality) trends to facilitate improvement and key KPI metrics.
Prepare monthly reporting to accurately reflect current performance, forecasts, analytical reporting, and commentary.
Daily and monthly maintenance and reconciliation of the company’s general ledger
Cashflow forecasting, expense management and daily reporting
Identify and work collaboratively to implement systems and process improvement.
Ensure compliance with tax and other government requirements.
End of year audit preparation in line with external auditor requirements and assist with audit queries.
Assist in the preparation of insurance renewals and claims together with renewal of other services contracts e.g. energy, property
Formulate sound financial policies, processes and procedures designed to protect the assets of the business.
Proactively identify and work with relevant parties to mitigate financial and other risks ahead of time.
Build, develop and maintain data/reporting systems and performance metrics that support key business decisions.
Assist with operational tasks, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, maintenance of general ledger and assisting in preparation of monthly accounting reports.
Preparation of compliance and statutory lodgements
Prepare balance sheet reconciliations including a fixed asset register and inventory reconciliation.