GroupM is hiring a
Assistant Accountant

Summary

The Assistant Accountant role at WPP AUNZ is responsible for financial accounting and reporting duties, engaging with key stakeholders, and adhering to Sarbanes & Oxley Control processes (SOX). The ideal candidate has tertiary education, 1+ years' experience in a similar role, technical accounting skills, technology skills including MS Excel, database applications, and ERP systems, customer focus, ability to manage and build relationships, excellent written and oral communication skills, high level of accuracy and attention to detail, ability to meet deadlines under pressure, courteous assertiveness, and the ability to work in a hybrid working model.

Requirements

• Tertiary education (and ideally working toward completing CPA/CA qualification)
• 1+ years' experience in similar role/s with responsibilities managing internal and external stakeholders, ideally having experience in Media / creative / digital industries
• Knowledge of technical accounting skills
• Technology skills including in MS Excel, database applications and ERP systems
• Experience using accounting processing tools (e.g. Blackline or equivalent)
• Customer focus
• Able to manage and build relationships both internally and externally
• Excellent written and oral communication skills - articulate
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability and experience in working with and meeting key performance targets
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure and to adapt in changing environment
• Courteous assertiveness

Responsibilities

• Completion of month end reports including bank and balance sheet reconciliations, general journal posting, pre payments and accruals
• Preparation of profit and loss, accruals & prepayments
• Preparation of the month end and year end Accounts Pack for review
• Bank reconciliation, posting and balancing
• Intercompany reconciliation and upload to ICS system
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly tax returns including GST, FBT and BAS
• Entering daily transactions into the accounting system/s
• Day to day support to the other team members
• Support to the Accounts Receivable and/or Accounts Payable functions when required
• Support the corporate reporting to prepare financial statements, financial reports and other annual external compliance reports
• Preparation of financial data in accordance with the group reporting timetables
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with OpCo Finance team members and ensure a high standard of customer service in line with agreed SLA (service level agreements) compiling key business metrics for reporting to management and continuous improvement purposes