Senior Accountant

Company Description

Australian Business Awards - Employer of Choice 2023, 2022 & 2021

HR Awards - Excellence Awardee, Employer of Choice 2022

AFR BOSS Best Places to Work - 2022

HRD Employer of Choice - 2021

Welcome to Publicis Groupe ANZ.

Here you will get an inside look at life within our network, including the brilliant people working across our agency brands. Publicis Groupe is a world leader in marketing communication and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of data, creativity, media, and technology.

Our connected platform of companies and capabilities is more than an operational framework.

It’s a cultural model we've built to unite our people in a collaborative way of thinking and working. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 80,000 talents across 100 countries globally.

In Australia, our powerhouse of marketing capabilities stretches across creative agencies (Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo, Publicis Worldwide), media agencies (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Performics, Atomic 212), Razorfish, Digitas, Epsilon, Arc, Prodigious, PXP, PMX, and PR (Herd MSL). We also have Publicis Sapient driving digital business transformation for our clients.

Overview

About the Role

We are excited to introduce the position of Senior Accountant into our team. This pivotal role is designed to enhance our dynamic finance team by ensuring smooth financial processes and meticulous attention to detail in all financial transactions across Australia and New Zealand.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Operations

• Day-to-Day Transactional Accounting: Perform daily financial transactional tasks to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
• Accounts Receivable: Manage the client invoicing process and ensure timely debt collection to maintain a healthy cash flow.
• Accounts Payable: Handle the entire accounts payable process, including vendor invoice data entry, management of purchase orders and weekly vendor payments.
• Credit card reconciliation: Weekly reconciliation of all company credit cards and entry into the system.
• Casual Payroll Review: Assisting with the approval and reconciliation of a fortnightly payroll for casual staff, ensuring relevant payroll and new hire data is submitted to the payroll processing team.
• Staff Expenses: Review and approval of staff expenses in line with company expense policy.
  
  

Management Accounting

• Job Reconciliations: Assist Client Services teams to complete job reconciliations to ensure jobs are running within budget and billings are accurate.
• Bank Reconciliations: Prepare and review bank reconciliations to ensure all transactions are accurately recorded.
• Fixed Assets Management: Oversee the management of fixed assets, including tracking depreciation and ensuring accurate records.
• Compliance: Ensure all financial activities comply with relevant regulations and standards.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Team Support: Act as the first point of contact for financial queries from the team, providing guidance and escalating issues as necessary.
• Financial System Maintenance: Creation of new client and vendor records, reallocations of job costs and general data updates as required.
• Email Management: Monitoring general accounts email address for AUS and NZ, responding to queries from suppliers and clients as required or escalating queries as required.
• Special Projects: Support special finance-related projects as required, contributing your expertise to achieve project goals.
  
  

Skills Required

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; CPA qualification or equivalent.
• Professional Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience in a finance role, preferably within the advertising and media industry.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of financial regulations, accounting principles, and financial reporting, including international tax requirements.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in financial software and tools, with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies. Prior NetSuite experience highly regarded.
• Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen eye for detail.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and effectively, both in writing and verbally.
• Integrity and Dependability: High level of integrity and dependability, with a strong sense of urgency and results orientation.
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Organisational Skills: Exceptional organisational skills and a strong work ethic, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
  
  

Additional Information

Publicis Groupe benefits: Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com.

Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
• A creative, lively, and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach — "working your way with us."
• Access to our Global AI Platform Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform, Marcel Classes.
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
• A committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees.
• Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave.
• Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, an all-in-one digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
• A workplace that stands together to provide a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses. Read more about our Working With Cancer Pledge: https://workingwithcancerpledge.com/
• Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.
  
  

If you don't tick every box in this ad, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity rather than ticking boxes — so if this role resonates with you, please apply.

Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words; these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe, we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge, and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions.

Uniqueness is powerful; without it, we wouldn't be where we are today. So be you — we like it that way.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those that require additional support throughout the application process. If you need any assistance or adjustments, please contact us via [email protected]; your personal information will be kept confidential.