Accounts Services Assistant, Corporate Finance & Restructuring, Melbourne

FTI Consulting is seeking an Accounts Services Assistant in Melbourne for their Corporate Finance & Restructuring team. This full-time role involves bookkeeping, data processing, banking support, and compliance management. The assistant will help manage client funds, prepare statutory documents, and ensure timely closure of client matters. Candidates should have at least 3 years of bookkeeping experience and strong organizational skills. The position is not remote, as it requires on-site support.
About the Role

In the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment, we focus on our clients' strategic, operational, financial and capital needs by addressing the full spectrum of financial and transactional challenges faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders.

The Accounts Services Assistant role is a permanent, full-time role supporting professional staff within the Melbourne and Sydney Corporate Finance & Restructuring teams (and providing back up assistance for the accounts services function in Brisbane and Perth offices on an 'as needs' basis). Duties include bookkeeping, general data processing and management, banking assistance using various on-line banking platforms, preparation of draft statutory documents/returns and various other accounts service-related responsibilities such as those set out below.

What You'll Do
• Provide banking / funds handling support to Melbourne and Sydney staff with respect to their client needs including monitoring and handling client funds (banking, opening and closing bank accounts, investing funds, other liaison with banks as needed, MYOB / bank reporting)
• MYOB data entry and database management including, but not limited to, processing receipts and payments, journal entries, wages, dividend distributions, entering/updating employee/creditor information, updating client Charts of Account
• Manage/monitor client ATO registration and reporting obligations (GST/PAYG registrations, monitor statutory due dates, draft/lodge BAS, attend to GST payables, monitor GST receivables, liaise with ATO as needed)
• ASIC statutory reporting including drafting and lodging ASIC Forms 5602 and 5603.
• Monitor staff compliance with statutory deadlines, prepare/manage periodical control reports/registers
• Assist with, and arrange, timely closure of finalised client matters on request, including but not limited to, bank account closures, preparation of final ASIC/ATO lodgements, monitor final GST refunds, cancel GST/PAYG registrations, raise final bills, close and archive MYOB cases
• Various ad hoc duties, project work relating to the Accounts Services function

How You'll Grow

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic environment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner with senior personnel to implement and drive a wide variety of performance improvement initiatives and greater operational efficiencies.

Qualifications & Experience
• Minimum 3 years' experience bookkeeping
• Bookkeeping qualifications highly regarded
• MYOB Insolvency Management Software and / or Core IPS software knowledge highly regarded
• Background in working within professional services firm highly regarded
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Intermediate Excel and Word skills
• Ability to work with initiative and prioritise workload
• Strong time management and organisational skills
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Enthusiastic, with a positive attitude
• Excellent communication skills

Our Benefits

Apart from the well-structured career path and excellent team environment, our employees enjoy a variety of perks and benefits. Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
• Attractive remuneration
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Medical insurance program (corporate membership) for individual and dependent(s)
• Annual paid volunteer hours
• Corporate matching for charitable donations
• Flexible working arrangements
• Fresh fruits, snacks, and drinks
• Employee Assistance Program ("EAP") - free to all employees and their immediate families
• Monthly Health & Wellbeing program including fitness subsidies
• Professional membership contributions and generous paid study leave

About FTI Consulting

What makes us unique? With more than 5,000 employees located in offices in every corner of the globe, we are the firm our clients call when their most important issues are at stake. Regardless of what level you are, you will have the opportunity to work alongside and learn from top experts in your field on high-profile engagements that impact history. Our culture is collaborative, and we value diversity, recognition, development and making a difference in our communities.

FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been recognized as a Best Firm to Work For by Consulting magazine and one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes . For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us on Twitter ( @FTIConsulting ), Facebook and LinkedIn .

FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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