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Accountant - Social Enterprises & Support Services

Save The Children
  • Part-time fixed term position

In this changing and competitive world, we need you to be proactive to support the financial health of our organisation. You will be responsible for day-to-day accounting processes, monthly management reporting and analysis, regular forecasting and annual budget setting. Your pursuit of best practice and simplification enables frontline staff to continue to improve the lives of children.

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit

We're ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children's rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We run programs in Australia and overseas and, if there's a disaster - like an earthquake, drought or conflict - we are there on the ground.

Where you come in:

In this part-time, 4 day a week fixed-term position (through to end of December 2020, with the possibility to go permanent), based in Carlton, you will work with the Social Enterprises and Support Services team on the day-to-day finance operations. The role covers a range of management and financial accounting activities, from transactional processing to generating improved financial procedures. You will be part of our Finance and Support Services team and report to our Commercial Finance Manager.

You will make an impact by:

  • Producing monthly financial and management reports and analysis including reviewing and posting of month-end accruals and time sheet journals
  • Providing budget, forecast, analysis, and reporting information on a regular and ad-hoc basis
  • Driving continuous development and improvement in financial processes
  • Supporting audit, tax, and financial statements and other regulatory requirements
  • Working with departmental heads to provide business partnering support

Does this sound like you?

…You've been thinking about, or are being drawn to, working in the not-for-profit space. You are proactive and resourceful, with experience in similar roles seeing you hold strong financial accounting and analytical experience. You enjoy working within a diverse team and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

This role requires:

  • Demonstrated experience in a similar role and in an environment involving high levels of multi-skilling
  • Graduate Degree in Accounting or other business-related Degree
  • Membership of, or studying towards qualification for, a professional accounting body e.g. ACA or CPA
  • Computer literacy including strong Excel and data extraction skills
  • Well-developed customer service focus
  • Strong professional interpersonal and communication skills

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job

It's the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same.

In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

  • Friendly and flexible work environment
  • Agile work environment including working from home
  • Child and pet friendly work environment
  • Full salary packaging benefits
  • Additional annual leave options available

At Save the Children, we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society - in race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs - and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making Save the Children a great place to work.
Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Save the Children Australia supports the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and will request consent to access HR held information pertaining to your last 5 years of employment. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguardinghere.

For more information refer to the Position Description - Accountant - Social Enterprises & Support Services.

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