CSL - Australia

Financial Accountant/Entity controller

Location
Parkville, AU
Salary
Competitive
Posted
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Closes
Friday, 7 April 2023
Ref
R-198880
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Experienced (non-manager)
The Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager GL Accounting and Reporting You will be part of the Account to Report team and manage Financial Accounting for one or more Entity to deliver accurate execution of Financial Accounting activities.

You will perform complex transactions and statutory reporting across the set of entity codes. It also includes support for projects and continuous improvement and liaising with Finance Business Partners for escalations.

The Role
  • Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals.
  • Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost center owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expense, and payroll corrections, workers compensation & property taxes).
  • Approve/Post the journals for the team members
  • Perform reconciliations, including from Clarity for CAPEX, IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations.
  • Identify reconciliation issues between Clarity, SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps. Including reaching out to business partners to help resolve any issues that require discussion.
  • Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages & salaries accounting, share-based calculations & reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation & benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts.
  • Support preparation of entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss, Balance sheet and cashflow statement.
  • Prepare and load data from the budgeting & planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities. Consolidate group level budget & forecast including balance sheet and cashflow.
  • Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow.
  • Prepare preliminary local statutory report (for major locations) including Trade Creditors reporting, including commentary for operating cashflow preparation and calculation and entry of statutory adjustments.
  • Process manual settlements in SAP (outside of RPA process).
  • Complete IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) adjustment calculations and share with Controlling & Reporting for review.
  • Support for internal and external audit requests, including providing documentation of AP (Accounts Payable) invoices to auditors.
  • Manage entities under this role with the team. Train and help the team members to get through the deadlines month end, forecasts, budgets, audits and any projects.


Your skills and experience
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related discipline;
  • Professional certification (CPA/CA)
  • 6+ years' experience in accounting and finance. Experience in global scientific/pharmaceutical industry highly desirable.


About CSL

CSL is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of life-saving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives through innovation. Learn more about CSL.

We want CSL to reflect the world around us

As a global organisation with employees in 35+ countries, CSL embraces diversity and inclusion. Learn more about Diversity & Inclusion at CSL.

Do work that matters at CSL!

How to apply

Apply now for a role now with a varied remit in an organisation going through considerable investment and change . Please including your application (Cover Letter and CV) in one document.

As a global organisation with employees in more than 30 countries, CSL embraces diversity & inclusion. It's the foundation of who we are. Diversity and inclusion are critical to our Values of patient focus, superior performance, innovation, integrity and collaboration. As a company, we rely on our people's diverse perspectives, ideas, capabilities and experiences to help us deliver on our promise to our patients, our business and our shareholders.

Our Benefits

We encourage you to make your well-being a priority. It's important and so are you. Learn more about how we care at CSL.

About CSL

CSL is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of life-saving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives through innovation. Learn more about CSL .

We want CSL to reflect the world around us

As a global organisation with employees in 35+ countries, CSL embraces diversity and inclusion. Learn more about Diversity & Inclusion at CSL.

Do work that matters at CSL!