Job Details
Location
Melbourne
Salary
AU$45 - AU$55
Job Type
Temp
Posted
2026-02-26
Accountant (Temp-to-Perm)
Our Client
Our client is a privately backed Australian organisation delivering a complex, capital-intensive program of work with long-term strategic importance. With significant investment committed and operations moving into a critical execution phase, the business is strengthening its finance capability to ensure robust controls, disciplined cost management and high-quality reporting. The environment is lean, commercially focused and performance-driven, where accountability matters and finance plays a central role in supporting leadership and protecting value.
The Opportunity
This role adds additional capability to a lean finance team, supporting both financial controls and reporting as activity levels increase. It offers exposure across transactional finance, reconciliations and month-end support, with scope to contribute to process improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Our client is a privately backed Australian organisation delivering a complex, capital-intensive program of work with long-term strategic importance. With significant investment committed and operations moving into a critical execution phase, the business is strengthening its finance capability to ensure robust controls, disciplined cost management and high-quality reporting. The environment is lean, commercially focused and performance-driven, where accountability matters and finance plays a central role in supporting leadership and protecting value.
The Opportunity
This role adds additional capability to a lean finance team, supporting both financial controls and reporting as activity levels increase. It offers exposure across transactional finance, reconciliations and month-end support, with scope to contribute to process improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and manage purchase-to-pay processes within established control frameworks
- Review purchase orders and monitor approvals in line with governance standards
- Oversee invoice processing and payment runs to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Assist in maintaining strong financial controls and resolving processing exceptions
- Prepare accounts payable reporting and contribute to cash flow visibility
- Perform balance sheet and bank reconciliations
- Support month-end close and management reporting activities
- Contribute to ongoing system and process improvements
- CA / CPA qualified or actively working toward completion (or equivalent)
- Experience supporting purchase-to-pay and accounts payable processes
- Solid understanding of financial controls, approvals and reconciliations
- High attention to detail with sound judgement
- Able to manage deadlines in a structured environment
- Confident communicator who can work across internal stakeholders
- Proactive and improvement-focused mindset
- Progress toward or completion of an accounting qualification is advantageous
- Experience in multi-cost-centre or project-style environments is beneficial
- Temporary-to-permanent opportunity
- Flexible working arrangements
- Broad exposure across finance operations and reporting
- Supportive, lean team environment
- Clear scope for progression as the business grows
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