Senior Accountant, Richemont
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To maintain daily accounting operations, assist Finance Manager, and provide support to the Brands.
Summary about this job
Financial Accounting & Reporting
Company: Richemont Australia Pty Ltd
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full Time
Salary: n\a
Phone: +61-3-8691-1719
Fax: +61-2-2126-7101
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Detail information about job Senior Accountant, Richemont. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Location is in close proximity in Sydney CBD in a beautiful office
- Work with several of the world's leading brands in luxury goods
- Join a down to earth team that work hard and have fun
POSITION OVERVIEW
- Responsible for timely and accurate closing of financial statement, by processing closing tasks as defined by Finance Manager
- Responsible for complete and correct group management reporting for inventories, debtors and cash
- Responsible for credit control and debtor exposure/evolution by closely engaging with internal and external stakeholders, and managing their expectations
- Responsible for overseeing retail back office function and wholesale AR function to ensure completeness and correctness of financial records
- Responsible for planning and executing boutique reviews in accordance with pre-defined internal control framework
- Lead and supervise a staff member to achieve functional objectives of Finance department
- Act as a SAP key user and support system enhancement activities
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Good understanding of internal control concept and ability to apply these concept in the evaluation of boutique processes
- Agility and persistence in pursuing functional objectives
- Strong relationship management, excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving capability
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment with demanding deadlines and expectations
- Ability to perform duties accurately with a strong attention to detail
- Good organisational and prioritisation skills
- Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement opportunities
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Retail back office (retail operational support and finance back-end processing)
- Lead and supervise a staff member to achieve functional objectives
- Timely processing of boutique daily closing reports
- Timely processing of RED LIGHT in SAP and removing all system blocks
- Ensuring cash/sales reconciliations and bank reconciliations are completed
- Managing boutique operational queries and issues along with SAP technical support and retail management
- Develop and maintain control framework in order to achieve high level of service standard and internal benchmark
- Review statistical reporting for boutique operational compliance, and devise improvement plans along with boutique management
- Evaluate process flows and identify risks/opportunities and initiate corrective actions
- Lead and supervise a staff member to achieve functional objectives
- Retail boutique control and compliance
- Organise, perform and monitor the execution of boutique operational review in accordance with Group and Regional requirements
- Communicate review results by drafting, finalising and issuing report to relevant stakeholders and monitor implementation of improvement plans
- Work closely with relevant teams (e.g., Compliance) to resolve controls-related issues and tighten existing retail operation controls
- Organise and drive training programme on boutique operations for retail staff
- Schedule and conduct boutique stock takes bi-annually, and finalise the count results accurately through stocktake system and internal approval process
- Credit control (wholesale debtor relations management)
- Lead and supervise a staff member to achieve functional objectives
- Timely processing of incoming funds and clearing of debtor open items
- Facilitate prompt payment from wholesale debtors and minimise overdue by establishing regular contacts
- Manage credit limit exposure by engaging with internal and external stakeholders and highlighting the risks to Finance management
- Review statistical reporting for wholesale debtors and prepare monthly presentation deck for Finance management
- Conduct credit limit review annually to achieve the balance of exposure risks and operational efficiency
- Lead and supervise a staff member to achieve functional objectives
- Financial accounting (SAP FICO)
- Monitoring general ledgers and sub-ledgers for debtors, cash and inventories
- Overseeing the reconciliations and open item management, and ensuring correct procedures and processes are followed for monthly reporting
- Completing balance sheet reconciliation monthly, and highlighting issues/risks to Finance management
- Completing inventory management reporting (BPS) monthly to the group
- Completing consignment reporting (BPS) monthly to the group
- Monitoring external and internal consignments, and ensuring adherence to the policy and procedures
- Acting as Finance SAP key user
- Engaging in regression testing and user acceptance testing, and conducting thorough review of system development and enhancement
- Supporting local SAP users and acting as Level 1
- Monitoring general ledgers and sub-ledgers for debtors, cash and inventories
REQUIREMENTS
- Degree and professional qualifications in Accounting
- Good understanding of international / local accounting and auditing standards
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience in accounting/auditing; retail industry experience is an advantage
- SAP FICO experience is a plus but not mandatory
- Impeccable written English
- Strong commercial acumen with business partnering experience
- Confident and tactful in dealing with different levels of management
- High learning capacity with mature mindset
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