Senior Manager Financial Accounting

About the Role

Lead and oversee the Financial Accounting function across General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Fixed Assets, with overall accountability for the accuracy, integrity and timely completion of accounting records, financial close and financial reporting.

The role serves as the senior accounting providing technical accounting leadership, ensuring consistent application of IFRS and approved accounting policies, strengthening financial reporting governance and controls, and overseeing the resolution of complex and historical accounting matters. The role is responsible for ensuring the completeness and integrity of the balance sheet and financial records, leading the external audit and financial statement process, and providing accounting and financial reporting advice on significant transactions, contracts, concessions and other complex arrangements.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the General Ledger function and the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close, ensuring the accuracy, completeness and integrity of accounting records and balances. Review journal entries, accruals, provisions, prepayments, allocations, adjustments and other closing entries, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment, adequate supporting documentation and timely resolution of complex accounting matters.
• Oversee intercompany, subsidiary ledger, suspense and other key balance sheet accounts, ensuring that aged, unmatched and reconciling items are investigated and resolved promptly. Manage intercompany accounting and balances across relevant entities, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment, timely reconciliation and resolution of differences.
• Lead the preparation and review of entity and consolidated financial statements, supporting schedules and disclosures, ensuring completeness, accuracy and compliance with IFRS, applicable regulations and approved accounting policies. Oversee group reporting requirements, including intercompany eliminations and consolidation adjustments, where applicable.
• Provide technical leadership and accounting advice on complex and non-routine transactions, significant agreements and concession arrangements, including their accounting, financial reporting and longer-term financial implications. Assess, review and document significant accounting judgements relating to financial instruments under IFRS 9, leases under IFRS 16, revenue recognition, impairment, provisions, materiality and other complex matters, ensuring appropriate recognition, measurement, presentation, disclosure and consistent application of IFRS and approved accounting policies.
• Oversee the Accounts Receivable function across relevant entities and business units, ensuring accurate and timely billing, receivable recognition, collection accounting, reconciliations and ageing management. Monitor aged receivables and drive the investigation and resolution of long-outstanding balances in coordination with relevant business units and stakeholders. Oversee the assessment and accounting treatment of expected credit losses, provisions, write-offs and other receivable-related matters in accordance with IFRS and approved policies.
• Oversee the Accounts Payable function, ensuring the completeness and accuracy of supplier liabilities, invoice accounting, accruals and payment-related accounting. Maintain appropriate controls over transaction processing, period-end cut-off and the procure-to-pay accounting cycle, and ensure the timely reconciliation and resolution of supplier balances, aged payables and other outstanding items.
• Oversee the full fixed-asset accounting lifecycle, including capitalisation, classification, depreciation, impairment, transfers, disposals and reconciliation of the Fixed Asset Register with the General Ledger. Ensure capital expenditure is appropriately assessed and accounted for in accordance with IFRS, applicable policies and approved capitalisation criteria.
• Lead the external audit and financial statement process, including audit planning, coordination of information and supporting schedules, assessment of the adequacy and completeness of disclosures, and the resolution of technical matters raised by auditors through to the issuance of audited financial statements. Lead the timely closure of external audit, internal audit, regulatory audit and other assurance findings relating to Financial Accounting, ensuring sustainable corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Oversee financial reporting governance, including accounting policies, procedures and reporting practices, ensuring the consistent application of IFRS and appropriate treatment of significant judgements. Strengthen financial accounting controls by identifying reporting and operational risks, assessing control gaps and implementing remediation plans. Drive the resolution of historical accounting and reporting matters while maintaining the integrity and timeliness of the current-period close, including the development and implementation of appropriate accounting methodologies for complex areas such as corporate cost allocations and chargeback mechanisms.
• Provide accounting oversight of ERP and finance-system configurations affecting Financial Accounting, including the Chart of Accounts, accounting rules, subledger to General Ledger integration, system interfaces and financial reporting structures. Ensure system configurations support appropriate accounting treatment, effective financial controls and accurate reporting requirements.

Qualifications

• 10 years of progressive experience in financial accounting, reporting and audit, including at least 4 years in a managerial or senior technical leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
• A Master's Degree is an advantage.
• CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA or an equivalent internationally recognized professional accounting qualification.
• Strong experience in period-end closing, financial statement preparation, technical accounting and external audit coordination
• Experience within a large, diversified, government or semi-government organization is preferred
• Experience managing high-volume and complex financial transactions across multiple entities or business units is an advantage
• Advanced IFRS and Technical Accounting
• Strong understanding of general ledger, receivables, payables and fixed-asset accounting
• Expertise in financial closing, reconciliations and financial statement preparation
• Consolidation and Statutory Financial Reporting
• Financial Accounting, Closing and Reconciliations
• External Audit and Financial Statement Disclosures
• Financial Reporting Governance and Internal Controls
• Chart of Accounts Design and Accounting Methodologies
• Complex Contracts and Concession Accounting
• ERP, Finance Transformation, Automation and Data Analytics
• Government Financial Reporting and Regulatory Requirements
• Strategic Leadership, Professional Judgement and Stakeholder Influence