Senior Accountant - Cash and Intercompany
Aristocrat is looking for a Senior Accountant - Cash and Intercompany to play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and control of cash and intercompany accounting processes. This position offers an opportunity to work in a vibrant and ambitious workplace where the successful candidate will manage end-to-end accounting functions across multiple entities and regions.
The role involves overseeing daily cash accounting, bank reconciliations, and the intercompany accounting lifecycle. The accountant will be responsible for maintaining balance sheet integrity, partnering with the Treasury department, and driving governance across intercompany processes to ensure compliance and operational efficiency.
- Lead end-to-end accounting and control for cash and intercompany processes across multiple entities and regions.
- Oversee daily cash accounting, bank reconciliations, and cash positioning to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
- Manage intercompany accounting lifecycle, including billing, settlements, eliminations, and reconciliations.
- Ensure timely and accurate month-end close activities for cash and intercompany, including journals, substantiations, and variance analysis.
- Own and maintain balance sheet integrity for cash and intercompany accounts, resolving aged or complex reconciling items.
- Partner with Treasury on cash management, funding, and liquidity activities to ensure alignment between accounting and operational cash movements.
- Drive governance and rigor across intercompany processes, including agreement alignment, pricing consistency, and settlement cycles.
- Lead intercompany netting and settlement processes, improving efficiency and reducing exposures.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, policies, and external reporting requirements, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Support internal and external audits, providing clear documentation and timely resolution of queries.
- Identify and implement process improvements, including automation and standardisation across regions and systems.
- Provide leadership and guidance to team members, building capability in cash management and intercompany accounting.
- Deliver clear reporting and insights on cash positions, intercompany balances, and exposures to support decision-making.
- 5+ years of experience in financial accounting with deep exposure to cash management, bank reconciliations, and intercompany accounting (required).
- Solid technical understanding of IFRS/GAAP, particularly in relation to financial instruments, foreign currency, and intercompany eliminations (required).
- Proven experience managing high-volume, multi-entity, and multi-currency environments (required).
- Strong control approach with a track record of maintaining robust balance sheet integrity and audit readiness (required).
- Demonstrated ability to resolve complex reconciliation issues and drive timely closure of aged items (required).
- Experience partnering with Treasury and working capital teams (required).
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive accountability across regions and functions (required).
- Process improvement approach, with experience in driving automation and simplifying finance operations (required).
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities (required).
- Confident communicator, able to present issues and insights clearly to senior stakeholders (required).
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. D365) and reconciliation tools (preferred).
- Qualified accountant (CA/CPA or equivalent) (required).
- Competitive pay and benefits package.
- Annual bonuses and incentives (depending on role and location).
- Health and wellbeing benefits.
- Paid time off.
- Retirement plans.
- Insurance coverage.
- Local or statutory benefits.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.