Financial Accountant | Immediate Start | Temp to Perm

* Clear scope for perm * Report to an exceptional Finance Manager **About Our Client** Our client is a leading infrastructure provider in the Eastern suburbs. **Job Description** * Own month\-end and year\-end close activities, including journals, accruals, prepayments and financial reporting. * Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of outstanding items. * Partner with external auditors, responding to audit queries and providing supporting documentation and analysis. * Maintain the fixed asset register and manage depreciation accounting. * Support cash management activities, including bank reconciliations and bank guarantee administration. * Assist with statutory reporting, audit requirements and compliance obligations. * Partner with operational stakeholders to provide financial insights and support business decision\-making. * Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls, systems and reporting efficiency. * Support Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll functions as required. * Contribute to financial analysis, variance investigations and management reporting. * Assist with system enhancement initiatives and automation projects to improve finance processes and controls. **The Successful Applicant** * Part\-qualified or qualified CA/CPA with a solid grounding in financial accounting fundamentals. * Strong technical accounting skills, including journals, reconciliations, month\-end processes and financial controls. * Experience assisting with audits and confidently managing auditor queries and requests. * Ability to identify risks and anomalies across the balance sheet and P\&L, with strong attention to detail. * Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the ability to communicate with both finance and non\-finance teams. * Proactive and solutions\-focused, with a continuous improvement mindset and interest in process optimisation. * Comfortable working in a fast\-paced environment with changing priorities and competing deadlines. * Strong systems aptitude, ideally with exposure to ERP systems (Business Central ideal) and finance process automation. * Team\-oriented, hands\-on and willing to support across the broader finance function when required. **What's on Offer** * Immediate start * Clear scope for perm and a development pathway * A high performing finance function * 4/1 Hybrid **Quote job ref: JN\-102026\-7130727**