Finance Associate

CARS24 AUSTRALIA - FINANCE ASSOCIATE

Position description

We are seeking a Finance Associate to join the fast-paced and dynamic environment of CARS24. As a newly established business within the Australian used car landscape, this role is an awesome opportunity to make your mark and add value to a fast growing and evolving, disruptive business. The right mindset and cultural fit are critical in our consumer obsessed, dynamic, entrepreneurial, data driven, collaborative start-up, with a huge ambition to transform automotive retailing in Australia.

You will be directly responsible for processing and reconciling revenue for our business, managing all company bank accounts, as well as managing accounting for our Value Add Services department. You will also be responsible for driving continuous improvement across all accounting and financial processes within the business.

Your Role and Responsibilities
- Ensuring all revenue is recorded correctly and accurately each month, by revenue type.
- Reconciling revenue accounts to supporting documents, including invoices and cash receipts.
- Completing bank reconciliations and managing company bank accounts.
- Accounting for income earned on our value add services, such as financing income, extended warranty and insurance income.
- Ensuring GST / VAS is accounted for correctly.
- Ensuring deposits and accrued income are recorded accurately and completely.
- Perform all accounting processes, including the preparation of month end journals and general ledger reconciliations. Ensuring all month end procedures are completed accurately and in accordance with communicated timeframes.
- Manage the month end review process and ensure all reconciliations are prepared and reviewed before the month end reporting cut-off.
- Ensuring all relevant accounting standards and principles are complied with.
- Year end processes, including responding to audit queries.
- Training and supervision of staff, as required.
- Developing better processes and procedures for your areas of responsibility.
- Implementing best practices to ensure balance sheet accounts are reviewed and cleared out in a timely manner.
- Leading a business partnering approach to your areas of responsibility, such that your work is led by a knowledge of the underlying business. Liaising directly with senior management in Australia to achieve this.
- Providing support to the broader team as and when required.

Our Cultural Values:

- Customer Obsessed
- Invest in People
- High Performing
- Ownership
- Trust
- Long-term

**Requirements**:
Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

- CA or CPA qualified with 3-5 years of post-qualified experience.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong accounting skills and good grasp of accounting concepts.
- Ability to collaborate and work well in a cross-functional team.
- Self-motivated and driven.
- Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong Excel and analytical skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Proactively seeks to solve problems through creating permanent solutions.
- Good working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP.

**Benefits**
- Competitive pay: full-time salary at market rates, above award
- Ground-up opportunity: build a big business from scratch and shape the strategic direction of the market, changing the way Australians buy cars
- Amazing people & network. You are not alone - we keep standards high for anyone who joins us here. Be a part of a fun, energetic team with a “can-do” attitude
- At Cars24 we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our customers and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer._