Senior Financial Accountant

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

This is your opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

Become a valued part of the team that’s shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies.

Be part of it and shape your world.

About the Role

An exceptional opportunity exists for a highly skilled Senior Financial Accountant with a passion for compliance and complex analysis to join our team at our new state of the art head office in Perth.

As our Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring Alcoa’s compliance with statutory accounting and corporate requirements and the provision of timely analysis and interpretation of financial data into the global system.

You will provide specialist expertise including reviewing significant transactions and new ventures and further contribute to the wider business by:


* Co-ordinating all USGAAP adjustments including adjustments associated with asset retirement obligations (ARO), pensions and Share based Payments.


* Overseeing the integrity of the ARO, Embedded Derivatives and Share Based Payment Models and monitoring all pension adjustments for compliance under Australian International Financial Reporting Standards (AIFRS) and USGAAP.


* Reviewing key contracts and the preparation of position papers for a broad range of accounting related issues.


* Supervise financial accountant and support their professional development through mentoring and training.


* Being the primary contact in relation to internal controls for maintenance of the general ledger and other areas of the business under scope (Pensions and ARO’s).


* Accounting and ledger reconciliations/reviews as well as monthly and ad hoc reporting of financial information as well as analysis of financial information.


* Supporting the Financial Reporting Manager with quarterly and year-end audits and preparation and review of financial statements for all entities requiring statutory accounts.

What’s on offer


* Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.


* Employee growth and development opportunities.


* Parental leave support for all caregivers.


* Employee assistance program for personal support services.


* Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.


* Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.

What you can bring to the role


* Tertiary qualifications in Finance / Accounting coupled with a CPA / CA equivalent designation.


* Proven experience working at a Big 4 or large mid-tier accounting firm.


* Relevant industry experience within a similar role would be considered desirable.

 
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