Junior Accountant

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Melbourne, Victoria
Entry level
Retail • Sports
The Role
The Junior Accountant will support accounting operations by processing invoices and payments, maintaining accurate records, ensuring compliance with accounting policies, and assisting in monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes. The role includes handling intercompany activities, performing reconciliations, and improving accounting systems for efficiency.
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YOUR MISSION

The focus of the role is to support accounting operations, ensuring accurate and reliable accounting, which relates to compliance-based financial reporting and accounting information systems and advises on associated record-keeping requirements to the Australian and New Zealand businesses. 

The role is responsible for processing invoices, credit notes and processing payments to suppliers of goods and services to the Australian and New Zealand businesses (including Cobra Puma Golf) and ensure the keeping of accurate and reliable accounts records and documents. 

  • Financial Accounting. Support monthly, quarterly, and annual closing to ensure fulfillment of all the reporting requirements both externally and internally. This includes preparation and posting of accounting entries and completing accurate reconciliations.
  • Maintain accurate accounting records within the accounting system to ensure accuracy and integrity. 
  • Ensuring compliance with accounting policies
  •  Process accounting entries 
  • Performing reconciliations of selected accounts 
  • examining operating costs and organisations' expenditure 
  • Improve accounting systems and processes to maximize efficiency and deliver the best possible outcomes. 
  • Manage the relationship with stakeholders (to ensure transactions are not misallocated and that relationships are well maintained.) 
  • Manage record keeping to ensure documents are filed and easily locatable as required for both internal purposes and for audits. 
  • Maintaining accounting systems 
  • Intercompany activities. Includes preparing reconciliations, invoice processing, balance confirmations, and reporting. 
  • Other tasks to include assisting in process improvements, system implementation, and any other tasks or ad hoc requests as assigned by supervisors. 

YOUR TALENT

  • Bachelor degree
  • FMCG industry experience is preferred
  • Excellent Microsoft Office knowledge (Word and Excel)
  • Profound SAP knowledge
  • Problem solving skills
  • A high attention to detail
  • Team work and interpersonal skills
  • Self organizing and prioritizing skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • IAS, Taxation and Reconciliation knowledge and skill

*Applications are open from 6 October 2021 and close 3 November 2021.

SPEED & SPIRIT is what we look for in our candidates, defined by some simple values that inspire us to BE DRIVEN in our performance, BE VIBRANT in our sporting legacy, BE TOGETHER in our team spirit, and BE YOU to let our individual talent and experience shine. Applying for a job at PUMA is easy. Simply click APPLY ONLINE and follow the steps to upload your application.

Top Skills

SAP
The Company
Boston, MA
14,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1948

What We Do

At PUMA, we are in constant pursuit of faster. That extends beyond our support of the fastest athletes in the world. We also work to be fast in how we adapt to and connect with the constantly changing world around us. Through innovative design, iconic footwear and apparel, and authentic partnerships, we aim to always push what’s next in both sport and culture. That hustler’s spirit can be felt across PUMA categories, partnerships, offices, and countries. And we are always in search of talent that can help us set the pace at which sport and culture collide, as well as finding better ways to connect and collaborate with our communities.

PUMA supports over 14,000 employees across 120+ countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

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