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.

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.

Responsibilities

Client Service

- 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.

Quality Assurance

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

Team Management

- 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.

Budget Management

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

Workflow Management

- 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.

Business Development

- 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

Leadership

- 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.