Senior Accountant in Sydney

Provide Accounting expertise across the Group, drive process improvements and support transformation initiatives.

Inclusive culture with a focus on creating genuine career opportunities. Sydney based with hybrid working from home available. Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia.

About the Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Group Accountant based in Sydney to join our Woolworths Group External Reporting team. You will play a key role in ensuring that internal and external reporting is accurate, timely, and in compliance with accounting standards and disclosure requirements.

What you’ll do:

• Assist in the preparation of the Group’s half-year financial report and annual report, Appendix 4D/4E, sales and profit announcements, and analyst presentations.
• Assist in the preparation of the Groups key performance metrics including working capital and capital expenditure.
• Assist in the preparation of reports, papers and analysis for the CFO, Board, and Audit Committee.
• Partner with business unit finance teams to ensure ongoing compliance with accounting and finance and disclosure related matters.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and assist with the implementation of transformation initiatives within the External Reporting team and across the wider Group.
• Partner with various finance shared services teams in Adelaide to deliver process improvements and timely insights during reporting cycles.
• Accounting and review of portfolio of equity and fair value accounted investments.
• Review of subsidiary accounts and Group accounting policies.
• Liaise with external auditors in respect of financial audits and other audits of group results and reporting.

What you’ll bring:

• A minimum of 4-6 years experience.
• Previous experience in a Big 4 accounting firm and/or large ASX listed business/retail company (FMCG) is highly desirable.
• Exposure to technical accounting skills, including familiarity with Australian Accounting Standards and ability to interpret accounting and reporting requirements.
• Able to communicate complex financial information to a broad audience.
• Strong stakeholder management, project management, and partnering capability.
• Experience in supporting financial systems and advanced excel skills (BPC and SAP an advantage).

What you’ll experience:

• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• Access to Sonder, which provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.