American Express
Financial Analyst
Our mission is to become essential to our customers by providing differentiated products and services to help them achieve their aspirations.
Finance and accounting
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Junior · A role for someone with some basic skills, good motivation and ability to learn. Typically 1-2 years of experience is required.
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Why American Express
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day.
These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more.
For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together.
About the role
How will you make an impact in this role? Coordinating closely with and supporting the Finance Manager - Controllership, this role will be responsible for the financial integrity of the entities in Australia and New Zealand. Core responsibilities will include:
- Take responsibility for analysis including understand business drivers and provide explanation of the monthly US GAAP financial results.
- Preparation of month end reporting, based on legal entity P&L and Balance Sheet.
- Assess the accounting implications of transactions under US GAAP and IFRS.
- Review month end accounting entries to ensure compliance to relevant internal policy and US GAAP accounting rules, ensuring integrity of financial records.
- Provide an oversight of accounting entries passed by other finance and non-finance teams.
- Ensure accurate reporting and escalation of any financial errors and all unusual accounting entries in a timely manner and in accordance with policy & procedure.
- Be responsible for oversight and quality review of quarterly board report and yearly statutory report prepared by the Legal Entity Reporting (LER) team within prescribed timetable.
- Review LER team’s reconciliation of US GAAP ledgers to the local GAAP accounts and ensure well controlled.
- Present monthly and quarterly information and relevant business analysis to stakeholders as required.
- Provide support on the production and audit of the IFRS statutory financial statements.
- Provide financial guidance on regulations and laws for local reporting related queries raised by market customers, business partners and regional finance team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Qualified accountant with professional finance experience.
- Strong technical accounting background and experience in accounting, reporting and statutory audit.
- Advanced knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS reporting requirements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to share technical knowledge and communicate to others in simple terms.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills to resolve issues and track through to conclusion.
- Understanding of month end close processes and reporting, with ability to identify high risk and unusual items.
- Proven ability to manage own workload, multitasks, operate autonomously and results driven
- Ability to collaborate across geographies in a matrix structure and deliver on customer expectations.
- High proficiency in MS-Office applications (experience of Essbase and Oracle also preferable).
- Fast learner with ability to quickly pick up new processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
What you'll be responsible for
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Process Management and Ongoing Improvement
Manage and improve organizational processes to minimize complexities and increase productivity
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Accounts Payable and Receivable Management
Maintain and update accounts payable and receivable, issue invoices and undertake reconciliations
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Pipeline Management
Prioritize and maintain pipeline while owning the sales cycle from discovery to close, in order to meet targets and goals
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Prioritization
Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables
Meet the team
