Senior Financial Accountant, Finance

Were BDO a global professional services firm connected to local markets. Our people work together to provide specialist expertise helping businesses achieve their goals.

We inspire others to go further. We create together to reach higher. We build trust to lead purposefully.

Whether youre building your future or starting your career with us you wont do it alone. From creating solutions for our clients to building careers for our people we shape what matters and thats where you come in.

The Finance team provides comprehensive financial support and guidance across the entire business. We service both client-facing teams and other shared services teams ensuring that all financial aspects are managed efficiently and effectively with the appropriate level of controls.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our internal finance team as a Senior Accountant in a full-time permanent position.

As a Senior Accountant you will play a key role in supporting the finance team nationally contributing to month-end processes reporting and various accounting projects. This position offers you the opportunity to see a firm undergoing a new system implementation internal process reviews and the opportunity to contribute to process improvements and automation.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complete month end activities including balance sheet reconciliations and processing journal entries

• Preparation of P&L and balance sheet variance analysis ensuring timely and accurate reporting to management

• Preparation of statutory financial statements reports and accounting workpapers

• Proactively identify and resolve financial risks including transactional reporting and account reconciliation issues and implement improvements to our internal processes and workpapers

• Implement and undertake accounting functions and projects as required

• Working collaboratively with the team to meet deadlines and continually improve our processes

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical accounting skills and have experience in a similar role ideally within a professional services firm.

Combined with

• A Bachelor of Business/ Accounting (or other relevant tertiary qualifications)

• CA/CPA Qualified

• Experience with Caseware/Accurri (preferred) and Workday (preferred but not essential)

• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills with Power Query experience

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with team members and stakeholders

• Excellent attention to detail to ensure accuracy

Why BDO

Working for BDO you will be part of a growing and market leading professional services firm.

Our national and global footprint provides our people with opportunities to work on interesting client engagements across diverse industry sectors and services.

Our open and collaborative culture ensures access to Partners and professional mentors to guide and accelerate your professional career across a wide array of career pathways.

We provide our people with various health and wellbeing social financial and professional development benefits to help realise whats possible.

Participate in fitness challenges or take advantage of exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance gym memberships and wellness facilities via our BWell program. Access benefits such as travel perks retail discounts employee referral rewards study and professional development support.

Our leave options cater to the unique needs of our people; and include enhanced family support cultural and religious leave and options to purchase additional leave. You can also give back and get involved in community initiatives via our BCaring program.

With a strong focus on learning and growth we provide on the job training and formal development programs to help you succeed in your role and develop your skills and experience.

Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One Bold Human Heart and Strive).

We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer for 2025-2026 by Diversity Council of Australia and a 2024-2025 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

BDO is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment practices. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview process we encourage you to contact our Talent Acquisition team at