Management Accountant

Permanent

This is a Permanent Full-Time position. Salary $86,176 to $101,510 per annum plus superannuation. (Salary package will be assessed based on skills, experience and qualifications.)

At Wollongong City Council we have a steadfast commitment to creating an Extraordinary Wollongong. We are in an exciting period of transformation and focused on delivering exceptional services, infrastructure and facilities for our community.

Our strength is the diversity of our people. Together our responsibility is to create an inclusive place where everyone is welcome, valued and belongs. We lead with courage, openness and curiosity. Our conversations and actions celebrate diversity, inclusion and belonging. Learn more about us here.

What you will be doing:

• Be a key member of a small team that delivers Council's Budget and Reporting functions.
• Provide exceptional service and support for the organisation and operational managers / teams in setting and managing their budget and reporting.
• Provide business analysis, support grants and restricted asset process and support asset projects through effective budgeting, timely transactions and reconciliations.
• Provide business analysis, support grants and restricted asset process and support asset projects through effective budgeting, timely transactions and reconciliations.
• Play an active role in the review and continuous improvement of systems, process, and policy to ensure that they address the business requirements of Council and all its internal and external customers.

About you

• You will have the ability to build effective and constructive business relationships and have well developed communication skills to work with, understand, support, influence, inform, educate and negotiate with our people at all levels of the organisation.
• You will have accounting experience with a strong emphasis on budget preparation and review, financial analysis, presentation and reporting.
• You will need to be an accounting professional with high level organisational and technical skills who has completed an appropriately recognised accounting degree level qualifications.
• You will have experience in the use of Financial Management Information Systems, spreadsheets and other office applications.

Benefits of working for council

• We provide flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and flex- you just need to ask!
• 35 hour work week
• We are value-led, support and encourage personal and professional growth, recognise and reward performance and embrace change.
• We provide generous leave provisions including 5 weeks annual leave per year of service Long Service Leave after 5 years We are committed to providing a safe working environment for all, (everyone, every day and everywhere) and make available wellbeing programs to support mental, physical and social wellbeing of our staff to be at their best.
• Access to Fitness Passport

For more information, click on Apply to be redirected to Wollongong City Council's E-recruitment site.

You will be prompted through the application to answer the essential requirements as outlined on Page 3.

Contact Daniel Pretzler, Corporate Accounting Manager (Acting) on (02) 4227 7351 for questions related to the job

For questions related to submitting your application online or our recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquistion Team on (02) 4227 7065.

Please note - It is anticipated that interviews for this role will take place the week beginning 15 July 2024.

Applications close 11:59pm, Monday 1 July 2024.

We encourage applications from everyone regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability or gender identity. People with disability are encouraged to reach out so they can be supported in recruitment processes, to enable them to demonstrate their skills and capabilities to meet the requirements of the job.

Wollongong Council adheres to the principles of a child safe organisation and is committed to the care and protection of all children and young people in the community.

Applicants are required to undergo a rigorous employment screening process which will include Reference, Identity and Medical History Checks, and may also include a Criminal History and Working with Children Check. Employment is subject to clearance of all these checks.