Senior Financial Accountant

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do.
We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections.
Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
How you'll make an impact The Senior Financial Accountant role is established to help deliver quality financial information and drive continuous improvement across the Financial Accounting team.
You will have a thorough understanding of the Xero business environment and be an expert in process improvement and getting the best use out of financial systems.
You will act as a leader within the Accounting Team and work collaboratively across the rest of the finance team.
What you'll do Be a key part of the team that drives Xero's month end close process and reporting, owning key areas including CAPEX, leases and cashflow
Review/understanding of wider functions/P&L, ability to analyse financial results and identify trends and anomalies and reasoning behind this
Support the half year/annual reporting cycles, including contributing to the reporting and audit processes
Support and drive reporting and audit processes for foreign subsidiaries compliance
Take initiative, driving change and improvements across the team and wider functions - particularly leveraging finance systems (including the month end close process)
Supervise, support and mentor other members of the Accounting Team
Review junior accountants' work
Have a strong understanding of IFRS, including providing management with conclusions, suggesting solutions and identifying risks
Own specific non BAU projects and delivery in accordance with specified deadlines
Strong relationships outside of finance, as evidenced by being a key contact to business owners
Success looks like Building effective relationships with Xeros, both within finance and across the wider organisation
Demonstrating an ability to find efficiencies, and improvements in processing activities
Quality, accuracy and timeliness of work
What you'll bring with you Critical competencies
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both with members of Finance and with other areas of the business
Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
Strong planning, organisational, problem solving and self-management skills
Drive and initiative
A genuine team player who works collaboratively with and contributes to the function of a high performing team
Experience
A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in large corporate or Big 4 CA environments
Qualified CA (or equivalent)
History of process improvement
Specific experience with software companies desirable but not essential
Please note:
We will be observing a holiday shutdown period, during which there may be delays in our recruitment process, including responses and updates.
We'll resume full operations in the week commencing 13th January.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Why Xero? Offering very generous paid leave to use however you'd like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you'll do the best work of your life at Xero.
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