Senior Manager Accounting Policy

In Financial Services, we support the Group's strategy of building tomorrow's bank today for our customers, through a focus on three key priorities of trust, resilience and capital generation. Financial Services partner with all areas of Comm Bank to specialist advice, support and services in finance, audit, treasury, property, procurement, climate strategy and investor relations.

See yourself in our team

Group Accounting Policy is a specialist team with the Statutory and Regulatory Reporting team ensuring the Group has adequate accounting policies to support external reporting requirements and business unit support for complex transactions.

Do work that matters

Your role is to support the Group CFO, Executive Leadership Team and the Board in making efficient and confident decisions on complex accounting matters, engaging external audit and ensuring sound accounting advice is provided in line with international accounting standards.

Some of the key areas you will be providing support and leadership across include:

• Ensuring the accounting policies and practices of the organization are followed
• Working closely with internal auditors and external auditors and other financial professionals ensuring that practices are in line with the overall goals of the organization.

This role is wide reaching and not prescriptive in every sense. Discretion and sound judgment is critically important

Your Responsibilities:

The role includes, but is not limited, to the following:

• Overseeing and evaluating the activities of the accounting staff, and providing for their professional development.
• Contribute to and author various high profile board papers explaining complex accounting matters.
• Implement new accounting developments.
• Sign off material transactions from an accounting perspective.
• Provide Group wide accounting training and updates.
• Analysing and solving accounting problems.
• Preparing or leading preparation of reports which summarize and forecast business activity and financial position in areas of income, expenses, and earnings, based on past, present and expected operations.
• Producing/reviewing accurate and timely financial reports, for internal and external use, in accordance with accounting standards.

We're interested in hearing from people who have:

• Excellent commercial acumen
• Strong analytical and commercial skills, with demonstrated ability to draw insights from accounting analysis
• Attention to detail and quality
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
• Innovative and able to drive results
• Excellent verbal, written communication skills and critical thinking skills
• Good knowledge of international accounting standards

Is this your next challenge, !

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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Advertising End Date: 03/10/2024

Job ID REQ219330