Location: Sydney
At Prospa, we exist to unleash the potential of small business. We are building the future of small business and simplifying cashflow by building a leading platform that helps customers make payments, fund growth and reduce admin. Join us!
The role
As a Financial Accountant on a 12-month fixed-term contract, you’ll be hands-on with day-to-day finance operations, supporting month-end, and contributing to reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. Reporting to our Senior Finance Manager, you’ll work closely with teams across the business to help drive Prospa’s financial performance.
What you’ll be doing
- Supporting our Financial Control team with a mix of accounting, budgeting, forecasting, operational tasks and ad-hoc projects
- Managing daily cash transactions and processing, and handling bank reconciliations
- Leading key accounting processes — including posting journals, reconciling the loan book, preparing accruals and pre payments, and reconciling the balance sheet
- Assisting with trust accounting processes, including journal entries and month-end reconciliations
- Preparing annual financial statements and ensuring compliance with Australian and New Zealand accounting standards
- Coordinating and supporting external audits
- Mentoring AP/AR officer, providing day to day guidance and support
- Handling compliance tasks, including tax reporting, AFSL calculations, trust and APRA reporting
- Improving accounting processes and driving operational efficiency
What you’ll need to succeed
- Qualified Chartered Accountant with 1-2 years’ relevant experience.
- Ability to prioritise tasks and effectively manage stakeholders.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Great communicator and collaborator, across the business and with our external stakeholders
- Experience with Salesforce, NetSuite, Blackline and/or Anaplan is advantageous
- Commercial experience in a Financial Services / FinTech setting highly regarded.
Don’t let a confidence gap get in the way of submitting your application.
What we offer:
As a busy grow getter, our benefits are here to help you be unstoppable in your mission. Whether it’s a lofty career goal, investing in your family, saving the planet or simply feeling fulfilled:
- Growth: There’s something for everyone including learning days, a learning allowance, leadership programs, CliftonStrengths workshops, digital learning, and biannual companywide learning weeks.
- Wellbeing: Think fitness initiatives, seasonal programs (including flu shots, massages, skin checks, wellness classes), additional “Me Days” and access to holistic EAP coaching.
- Lifestyle: Find your fit with flexible working options, top notch office facilities and diverse remote/ travel work options. You can also purchase additional leave and take up to 18 weeks paid parental leave.
- Impact: Join a business that cares and is recertified as carbon neutral. And you can tap into volunteer days, our partnership with Kiva and join a range of employee resource groups.
Why Prospa?
We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and recognised as a Best Workplace for Women, Best Workplace in Technology, and Best Workplace in Australia. We embrace diversity in people and ideas, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful environment where we celebrate who you naturally are.
Don’t just take our word for it, check out Prospa’s culture code to see it for yourself.
