About the Role
Join our close-knit, high-performing team as a Chartered Accountant to support the delivery of quality statutory financial reporting and audit readiness solutions across a diverse range of large entities, unlocking your potential for growth and impact.
Responsibilities
- Support the audit process for large proprietary and listed companies by providing necessary documentation and explanations.
- Complete planning schedules, including detailed timelines and engagement planning.
- Analyze and document likely audit and accounting standard issues, and work with management to resolve them.
- Collect relevant financial information from various internal and external sources.
- Prepare workpapers to support year-end delivery, ensuring transactions are properly documented and supported.
- Prepare financial reports that comply with relevant accounting standards, regulations, and company policies.
- Present financial reports to stakeholders clearly and understandably.
- Meet or exceed promised delivery timeframes and service quality.
- Continuously review and improve financial reporting processes and systems.
Requirements
- Experience in preparing complex financial reports and applying accounting standards is essential.
- Audit experience strongly preferred, otherwise familiarity with and experience of the audit process from the preparer side is essential.
Skills
- Sound understanding of accounting principles, regulations and standards including tax effect accounting.
- Strong analytical skills to dissect financial data.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficiency in relevant software tools and spreadsheets for financial analysis.
- Excellent numerical abilities.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ethical integrity and professionalism.
- Leadership capabilities to mentor and guide junior staff.
- Continuous learning mindset to stay updated with industry trends and regulations.
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Near or newly qualified Chartered Accountant
Education Level
- CA qualified or near CA qualified (or overseas equivalent)
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Social benefits
- Financial benefits
- Professional development benefits
- Fitness challenges
- Exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance, gym memberships and wellness facilities via our BWell program
- Travel perks
- Retail discounts
- Employee referral rewards
- Study and professional development support
- Enhanced family support leave
- Cultural leave
- Religious leave
- Options to purchase additional leave
- Community initiatives via our BCaring program
- On the job training
- Formal development programs
About the Company
- BDO is 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.
- We shape what matters, and that’s where you come in.
- We are 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.
- Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One, Bold, Human, Heart and Strive).
- We are always looking ahead, thinking bigger, reaching further and always staying personal and human in everything we do.
- We’re by your side, backing you to explore ideas and new ways of working to shape the future you want to see.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer for 2025-2026 by Diversity Council of Australia.
- We are 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 recruitment@bdo.com.au.
