Manager - Business Advisory

• Communicate effectively with team members, colleagues, clients and stakeholders using both written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and maintain trust, rapport and relationships quickly through stakeholder engagement and interaction.
• Work independently, by planning and prioritising work within set budgets.
• Utilise strong research and presentation skills in the delivery of client work and client meetings.
• Display strong client relationship and client service abilities.
• Demonstrate advisory capabilities and commercial awareness through a deepening understanding of clients’ businesses, goals and objectives.
• Display a solid understanding of the external business environment and political, social, economic, and demographic trends as well as industry specific developments.
• Demonstrate people management skills, including providing clear direction, training, and day-to-day support.
• Extensive exposure to and a deep understanding of a range of technical accounting and tax issues.

Responsibilities

• Providing and reviewing a range of accounting and compliance services including:
  • Preparing and completing income tax returns for more complex client entities including individuals, partnerships, trusts and companies.
  • Preparing full set of accounts.
  • Preparing cash flow statements.
  • Reconciling client accounts.
  • Preparing and completing tax reconciliations.
  • Calculating deferred tax accounting.
  • Completing complex tax calculations and structuring
• Providing consultancy advice, report writing and handling client requests.
• Overseeing workflow and preparing budgets for client engagements.

• Monitoring the accuracy of client work and ensuring regulatory quality assurance requirements are met.

• Managing, coordinating, and delegating client work (including overseeing workflow and preparing budgets) to team members with an appropriate level of capability to ensure team targets are met.
• Resource and succession planning, recruitment, career development, conflict resolution, and performance enablement.
• Active involvement in the training of mid-level experienced team members across the firm.

• Setting and achieving targets for recoverability, monitoring billings, collections and debt recovery.

• Monitoring workflow, disseminating information internally and to clients, and advising directors of progress on current work.
• Providing real time management reporting against established deadlines and budgets.

• Seek, identify, and act on new business and referral opportunities within the firm.
• Continuing to build client relationships and networks while actively encouraging team members to do the same.
• Attending and participating in industry and business activities external to the firm to raise the Moore Australia profile and attract clients to the business.
• Preparing fee estimates and proposals for new and potential clients

• Contributing to the technical development and culture of the firm via voluntary involvement in programs, including but not limited to graduate recruitment, training, social commitments and peer group facilitation.
• Actively identify new processes, systems and areas of technical development that aim to improve the firm’s performance.

Requirements

• Exposure to larger client groups and sophisticated business structures with multiple entities and technical complexity.
• Demonstrated workflow management experience.
• Exposure to people management.

• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) or similar undergraduate degree.
• Professional certification – Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development, including maintaining the required CPD hours.
• Strong exposure to accounting software, including but not limited to Xero, Business Fitness, MYOB and QuickBooks.