Overview
Initial 12-Month Maternity Leave (with strong potential to go permanent!)
Why You’ll Love This Role
- Build your finance career in a supportive, rapid-paced team.
- Gain exposure across accounting, month-end, reporting & audits.
- Great Places to Work Winner – 4 Years Running!
- Be backed while working towards your CA or CPA qualification.
- Recognition & Reward – Your work is noticed, valued, and celebrated.
- Balance & Wellbeing – Hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 at home), wellbeing programs & a genuinely supportive team.
About the Team
You’ll be joining a switched-on, high-performing finance team that’s supportive, collaborative, and big on growth opportunities. We balance busy days with plenty of laughs, good banter, and a culture that values flexibility, wellbeing, and celebrating wins together.
What You’ll Be Doing
Working closely with our Financial Accountant and Finance Manager, you’ll get hands-on experience across a wide range of accounting and reporting functions while learning from an experienced and approachable team.
- Assist with month-end processing: cost allocations, journal entries, accruals, prepayments & reconciliations.
- Support divisional & group reporting.
- Prepare & assist with tax compliance (BAS, GST, FBT, ABS surveys & global reporting).
- Maintain Fixed Assets, Lease & Liability registers.
- Assist in preparing for financial audits (parent & subsidiary reporting).
- Partner with client service & management teams on process improvements.
- Get involved in Accounts Payable activities (vendor set-ups, POs, invoices, troubleshooting).
- Support with forecasting, budgeting & ad-hoc projects.
What We’re Looking For
- A Commerce/Business degree (Accounting/Finance focus).
- Currently studying (or planning to study) CA/CPA.
- Experience with financial systems (SAP/HFM preferred) + robust Excel skills.
- Solid understanding of accounting & tax compliance principles.
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and commercially savvy.
- Great time management skills and adaptable to shifting priorities.
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative (and fun!) environment.
About Us
At DKSH Smollan, we work with some of the world’s most iconic brands and retailers. Our success is built on people – and we’re proud to have been recognised as one of the Great Places to Work for 4 consecutive years.
If you’re looking for a role that builds your accounting career, gives you variety, mentorship, and the chance to make an impact — this is it.
Apply Now and let’s grow your finance career together!
Job Insights
Salary match • Number of applicants • Skills match
Your application will include the following questions:
- Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
- What’s your expected annual base salary?
- How many years' experience do you have as an assistant accountant?
- Do you have previous invoicing experience?
- Please confirm you aware this is an initial 12M maternity leave cover opportunity?
- Have you previously worked for an FMCG/Retail company?
- Describe yourself in 1 sentence?
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📌 Assistant Accountant
🏢 Crossmark
📍 Melbourne