Treasury Accountant

Treasury Accountant - Top tier law firm

• Treasury Accountant role with genuine opportunity to "add value" beyond day-to-day tasks
• Embrace a variety of tasks, showcasing your flexibility, attention to detail and proactive problem-solving skills
• Join a team-oriented environment where collaboration and mutual support are at the core of our success

Role Detail

We are seeking a Treasury Accountant to join our team in Sydney, supporting a broad range of treasury activities across the business. This is a varied, hands-on role offering exposure to both day-to-day treasury operations and process improvement initiatives.

This position will play a key role in managing the firm's daily treasury activities, including cash flow, transactional banking, and supporting ongoing projects. The role offers the opportunity to contribute beyond BAU, with scope to enhance processes, improve forecasting, and add real value to the function.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitate daily treasury payments and funding operations
• Post journals and reconcile treasury balance sheet accounts
• Monitor and consolidate daily cash positions; coordinate cash movements between accounts and subsidiaries
• Prepare cash flow forecasts and provide actionable insights to aid decision-making
• Generate covenant reports to ensure compliance
• Manage daily foreign exchange operations
• Execute administrative transactional banking duties and associated KYC processes, including maintaining system access
• Assist in arranging bank guarantees, analysing exposure limits, and collaborating with business units on operational matters
• Actively participate in treasury and banking projects, focusing on continuous improvement of business processes and controls

About You

• Prior experience in treasury within a corporate environment, with strong exposure to transactional banking
• Experience across payments, cash management, and cash flow forecasting
• Understanding of KYC and banking processes (systems may differ, but process knowledge is key)
• Familiarity with systems such as Elite or Blackline are advantageous, but not essential
• Strong Excel skills, with the ability to work with and improve financial models
• High attention to detail, particularly in a high-volume or manual environment
• Proactive and solutions-focused, with a willingness to identify and improve processes
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams

Who are we?

We are Mallesons. The top-tier independent firm from Australia, a full-service firm trusted on the most complex and consequential matters across our region and around the world. We've been part of Australia's story for almost 200 years and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of these lands and waters.

Our independence gives us the flexibility to combine our extensive top tier full-service capability with the best advisers in every market. With deep expertise, collective judgment and genuine collaboration, we cut through complexity so our clients can move forward with confidence and make more happen.

Why work with us?

We build careers that go everywhere. Mallesons is a special place to work where anything is possible, ambitions are limitless and diversity and inclusion play an important role. It's a place where you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues and clients, where you will sharpen your edge and support others to do the same, where you will make a difference you can be proud of. You will have access to a suite of wellbeing initiatives, benefits, policies and process that will support you to achieve your career goals.

Together we learn. Together we master. Together we lead.

Next Steps

Please click 'Apply Now' to apply online with your cover letter summarising why you're applying and your resume to support your experience.

If you have any questions or need any further information, please don't hesitate to reach out to Sophie Larrett at ***email_hidden***

If you are not an Australian citizen or permanent resident, you must hold all visas and other approvals necessary for you to work for the firm in Australia.

Diversity and Inclusion

Mallesons is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people from diverse backgrounds. We welcome, value, support and harness the positive benefits that people's different life experiences bring, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages.

If you are unsure if you meet all criteria for this role, but have a passion for delivering high quality work, developing your skills and realising your full potential, then we encourage you to apply and have a further conversation about how you could fit at Mallesons.

We have a range of inclusive hiring practices - if you would like to seek workplace adjustments to complete your application please contact the Recruitment contact for this role or email [email protected]