About the Role
This 14-month parental leave cover role reports to the Finance Manager and is crucial for maintaining smooth finance operations and supporting month-end processes. It's ideal for problem-solvers who enjoy working with data and building strong business relationships, ensuring financial information is accurate, timely, and useful.
Responsibilities
- Support month-end close activities, including journals, accruals, reconciliations, workpapers and reporting packs
- Complete balance sheet reconciliations and assist with P&L reviews and variance analysis
- Maintain fixed asset and capex registers, including additions, disposals, depreciation and asset reconciliations
- Complete bank, credit card, cash, daily sales and member-related reconciliations
- Process approved member refunds and support direct debit reporting, receipt matching, rejection files and follow-ups
- Assist with BAS workpapers, FBT analysis, ABS survey support and other compliance reporting requirements
- Provide backup support for accounts payable activities, including invoice coding, approval follow-up and payment run readiness
- Respond to finance queries from club and support office teams
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve finance documentation and controls
Requirements
- Around 2-4 years’ experience in finance or accounting
- Completed accounting, business or finance qualification
- CPA or CA qualified, currently working towards it, or an experienced Assistant Accountant
- Understanding of the month-end rhythm, including journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, workpapers and reporting
- Comfortable working with fixed assets, capex, depreciation and balance sheet accounting
- Experience supporting BAS and FBT processes is a bonus
- Comfortable using Excel, including PivotTables, lookups and structured reconciliations
- Experience with finance systems or ERPs
- Ability to balance deadlines, competing priorities and recurring month-end cycles
- Ability to build strong relationships with finance and non-finance teams
- Ability to explain numbers in plain language
- Proactive in improving processes and documentation
Skills
- Excel (PivotTables, lookups, structured reconciliations)
- Finance systems or ERPs
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (preferred)
- Adyen (preferred)
- Exerp (preferred)
- NAB (preferred)
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Full-time
- 14-month parental leave cover
Experience Level
- 2-4 years
Education Level
- Accounting qualification
- Business qualification
- Finance qualification
- CPA
- CA
Benefits
- Complimentary club membership
- Discounted personal training
- Discounted wellbeing services
- Exclusive perks and discounts with retail and lifestyle partners
- Paid parental leave
- Ongoing personal and professional development
- 24/7 confidential wellbeing support through Employee Assistance Program
About the Company
- Leading wellness brand
- Part of the Virgin group of companies worldwide
- Launched Australian business in 2008
- Currently has nearly 1,000 employees across iconic locations in Sydney and Melbourne
- Vision to be the world's most loved exercise brand
- Culture champions wellbeing, inclusion and growth
- Workplace built around movement and wellbeing
