Financial Accountant
Are you an experienced Accountant looking to step into a meaningful role within the higher education sector? Our client is committed to student success, learning innovation and academic excellence. You will play a key role in managing student financial processes and regulatory reporting across a highly compliant environment.
Key responsibilities
- Manage student finance transactions including billing, receipting, refunds, adjustments and commission calculations
- Prepare and reconcile student revenue, receivables and related balance sheet accounts
- Complete revenue recognition calculations and journals in line with AASB and IFRS
- Support FEE-HELP, SA-HELP and TCSI regulatory reporting
- Prepare month-end and year-end schedules and assist with external audits
- Supervise and mentor junior team members
- Ensure accurate reconciliation across student systems, payment platforms and the general ledger
- Partner with Admissions, Student Services and IT to resolve finance matters
- Support budgeting, forecasting and ad hoc financial analysis
- Drive process improvements to enhance accuracy and efficiency
About you
- Degree qualification in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
- CA or CPA qualified
- Minimum 4 to 6 years’ experience in financial accounting and reporting in a regulated or complex organisational environment
- Demonstrated experience in revenue accounting, including reconciliations, journal preparation and revenue recognition in accordance with AASB and IFRS
- Experience managing student-related financial processes such as tuition billing, receivables, refunds and commission calculations, or equivalent high-volume revenue environments
- Experience preparing regulatory or statutory reporting within a compliance framework such as HESA, FEE-HELP, TCSI or similar funding and reporting environments
- Strong balance sheet reconciliation experience and the ability to investigate and resolve discrepancies independently
- Experience using large ERP systems such as PeopleSoft, Oracle or similar
Benefits
- 3 days work from home each week, offering excellent work-life balance
- Opportunity to work within a values-driven Higher Education Provider
- $105,000 - $115,000 + super
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Click Apply Now
or reach out to Liam
at liamg@people2people.com.au
or Brooke
at brooket@people2people.com.au.
