MERCHANTS ADVISORY
INSOLVENCY AND RESTRUCTURING SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
About the Opportunity
Are you looking to progress your career in insolvency and restructuring?
We're growing and looking for a Senior Accountant to join our team. You'll have personalised mentoring and coaching and the opportunity to continually learn, develop and progress your career with significant opportunities for career progression based on merit, skills and interests.
You'll have the opportunity to work on interesting projects, learning insolvency and restructuring skills on a variety of matters and types of matters. You'll also have opportunities to share your technical knowledge and coach our more junior team members, celebrating their development with them.
Working with our two Principals, Senior Director, Senior Manager and Managers, you'll have ownership of your own matters while being supported by a Manager, and collaborate on larger and more complex matters, delivering work with excellence, integrity and a strong work ethic.
This is a full time role and you can be based anywhere in Australia. We embrace hybrid work – most of us enjoy being in the office with our colleagues about 2-3 days a week, and working from home about 2-3 days a week. We presently have offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, but if you're elsewhere, we'll get you an office space (if you'd like one) too
What to Expect
* Great team culture and a knowledgeable, high-achieving and fun team
* Leadership who are interested in investing in you
* Work on interesting projects, with a variety of matters & types of matters – corporate, personal, liquidations, voluntary administrations, bankruptcies, small business restructurings, receiverships, agent for mortgagee in possession appointments, Part X's, advisory etc of various sizes
* Ownership and day-to-day management of smaller to medium appointments while being supported by a Manager, delivering the requirements for that insolvency or restructuring matter, including investigations and reports to creditors, and keeping the Manager updated
* Active involvement in larger and/or more complex matters, working directly with the Manager and/or Principal, including the conduct of more complex investigations and financial analysis, assistance with public examinations, recoveries and litigation etc
* Good proactive management of your workflow and priorities across multiple client matters
* Communicating directly with external stakeholders, supported by the Manager if/when needed
* A positive, supportive, diverse work environment with great communication, respect and collaboration
* Whole of career coaching through our coaching program, all the way to being an Appointee / Principal, if desired
* The opportunity for unlimited career progression based on merit and the demonstration of skills
* To be encouraged to be the best version of yourself, the best professional you can be, and reach your career ambitions
* Opportunity to work on firm projects depending on your interests, including in the areas of business development, process automation and improvement, and others
* Assistance with overall management of our portfolio of matters
* High quality internal, external and on-the-job training
* Big vision for growth of the firm across Australia and the chance to be part of a rapidly growing new firm
* Flexibility for life's circumstances
* Study support including payment of course fees and study leave for CA, CPA and the ARITA Advanced Certification
* CA, CPA and ARITA professional membership fees paid
* A competitive salary based on your skills and experience
What Does Success Look Like?
* Delivering quality work on time as a team, having coached our more junior team members on the job so they have learned new things, while being coached through the process yourself wherever anything is new so you have also learned new things.
* To be proud of what we have delivered and how we have conducted ourselves through the process – with integrity at all times, and with clear, helpful and professional communication and decision-making.
* To have challenged ourselves to have developed the best strategy for each matter and executed it well.
* To go home from work happy and satisfied, with time for our family, friends and the things we enjoy outside of work.
About Merchants Advisory
We are a young, dynamic, insolvency and restructuring firm with a growth mindset. Our mission is to deliver the best option for each client, with excellence and integrity.
People are at the centre of everything we do. We hope you caught this and a whole bunch of what's important to us from what we're looking for in our new team member :)
If you're thinking about submitting an application and you aren't sure, you're welcome to contact us to ask any questions or find out more. Also, if you attend an interview with us and you still aren't sure about anything, you're welcome to have a chat with any team member of your choice to hear what it's really like to work with us.
Required for this position:
* Approximately 2 to 3+ years of professional insolvency and/or restructuring experience in Australia
* A tertiary qualification in accounting or a related area
* Commenced or completed your CA / CPA
* Strong insolvency technical knowledge
* The ability to work autonomously and in a team
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Excellent attention to detail
* Enthusiasm about your work
* The ability to learn quickly
The following are highly regarded but are not mandatory requirements:
* Experience with all types of corporate and personal insolvency and restructuring matters, as long as you're willing to learn to conduct these
* An interest to complete or completion of the ARITA Advanced Certification
* Proficiency with Insol6
What's our Application Process?
1. If this sounds like you, or even mostly sounds like you, please send us a cover letter and CV addressed to Louisa Sijabat at .
2. Qualified candidates are invited to an interview.
3. We hold interviews with the best candidates.
4. Reference and visa checks for short-listed candidates.
5. Offer made to successful candidate(s).
We're looking forward to working with you