An exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Management Accountant to join our Television Finance team at Nine. Reporting to the Finance Manager – Local Productions, you will be pivotal in ensuring the financial health of your designated programs and will play a key role in enhancing our finance and business partnership across the programming space.  Local Productions include Nine’s internally produced programs (including The Block, Travel Guides) and external programs (including MAFS, Lego Masters).

You will:

• Undertake monthly reviews of departmental and program expenses, and analyse variances against the budget and forecast for both P&L departments and WIP projects

• Develop precise annual departmental and program budgets, covering all essential costs including salaries, production costs and internal resources

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, including program and property WIP accounts

• Prepare and present monthly departmental management accounts and program cost reporting to department heads and key users of financial information

• Undertake monthly expenditure forecasts, for both P&L departments and WIP projects

• Provide explanation of variances to budget, including headcount analysis

• Undertake weekly and monthly cash flow reporting and coordination with Accounts Payable

• Obtain expenditure approval, including petty cash and debit card reconciliations and journals

• Business partner with Production Staff to support with program budgets, reporting, talent payments and analysis

This position will join the existing tax compliance and reporting team in preparation, review and monitoring of tax compliance and reporting obligations in respect of the non-US operations of NBCUniversal International, covering 150+ entities in over 30 territories internationally, with a particular focus on the APAC region.

Key Position Responsibilities

Reporting:

• Manage regional businesses’ compliance with US GAAP & regional tax accounting rules
• Manage, maintain and review tax calculation templates, FIN 48 calculations and SOX 404 documentation
• Monitor and manage variances between the tax provision and tax return for international businesses
• Manage relationships and queries with both internal finance contacts and external service providers
• Review and update business models (forecast financial models) and analyse their impact on worldwide group tax position
• Manage group summaries by business line and by territory and assist with the review, analysis and consolidation of tax data required to be reported to headcompany
• Review intercompany royalty calculations and manage impact on tax reporting and compliance
• Preparation and analysis of Country by Country reporting data

Compliance:

• Management of tax compliance process for APAC territories (and potentially other worldwide entities), including preparation and review of tax provisions, tax disclosures and tax returns over time sensitive timeline
• Management and coordination of BEPS compliance including Country by Country reporting notifications
• Responsible for managing internal tax return library and tracking tool for international businesses
• Withholding Tax (WHT) administration and advisory – advising the business on WHT rates, obligations, clearance forms and refunds, dispute resolution in respect of customer WHT deductions and reviewing WHT language in legal agreements
• Review and management of transfer pricing implementation, working closely with our transfer pricing team

General:

• Ad-hoc project work including
  • management of tax audits that arise in different jurisdictions including liaising with the local business, advisors and tax authorities
  • Managing local film production issues including but not limited to setup, transfer pricing, film tax credits and statutory accounts
  • Advising the Australia group on fringe benefits tax issues
  • entity eliminations
  • group structuring
  • dividend and repatriation planning
  • mobile employee issues
  • CFC review
  • Pillar II requirements
• Support and advise businesses on various tax issues as and when they arise
• Work with and advise the UK and US corporate, compliance & reporting, indirect tax and transfer pricing tax team members of tax and commercial issues and initiatives arising in or related to the Asia Pacific region.
• Assist in development of electronic tools to maximize efficiencies in tax processes
• Supporting the wider tax team as appropriate in areas commensurate with experience

Infopro Digital Group are recruiting for a talented and motivated Management Accountant to join our team on a permanent basis in Haynes Australia Pty Limited, who sit within Infopro Digital’s Automotive division. Infopro is a global organisation with 4,000 employees based in 18 Countries and a turnover of €550 million. 

Haynes Australia Pty Limited operates in the B2B and B2C markets of the automotive aftercare industry. Your role will be to lead the finance function and become a key individual in a growing business, offering support to the local team as well as Group department heads. The role would suit a qualified accountant who has experience in an industry role.  

This job is located in our offices in Sydney, Australia. It is anticipated that after a short period of training, the role can be completed with a mix of office-based and homeworking. Full time or part time candidates will be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

·  Preparation of monthly management accounts including reconciliation of all control accounts

·  Monthly upload to group operational P&L software

·  Process the weekly/monthly operating statements including revenue deferral calculations

·  Monthly reconciliation of inter-company P&L charges and quarterly reconciliation of inter-company P&L charges and balances

·  Monthly cash reporting

·  Quarterly upload of full management accounts onto Group Consolidation software and completion of supporting schedules

·  Preparation of the annual budget and forecast exercises

·  Assist with the preparation of Australian statutory and tax compliance filings (in liaison with external advisers)

·  Supervise working capital cycles and requirements including payment runs & loan repayments

·  Lead the Australian finance function and offer support to the Office Manager with transactional queries

·  Key contact to the AUKUS management accountant and group reporting functions (located in England)

·  Ad-hoc queries

All necessary background research, preparation of schedules, liaison with internal colleagues and external advisers to enable the satisfactory completion of the above job responsibilities. Including: 

• Qualifications - CPA / CA ANZ (or equivalent)
• Excellent Excel skills (pivot tables, SUMIFs, lookups etc)
• Excellent Analytical skills
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Team player and willingness for 'hands-on' approach
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy of outputs
• Keen to add value and identify opportunities for improvement
• The need to identify and respect confidential information

• Hybrid working- attending the office in Sydney, NSW 2 days per week (for a full-time role, can be discussed for a part time role)
• Generous base salary
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme

Learn more about us 

Infopro Digital is a B2B group specialising in information and technology. With a presence in 18 countries, the group has 4,000 employees of 55 nationalities. 

Infopro Digital connects professional communities. 

Our brands are leaders in the five key economic sectors: construction and public sector, automotive, industry, risk & insurance, and retail. 

With our solutions, decision makers make informed decisions and companies develop their business and performance in a sustainable way.