Senior Accountant- Accounting Tax

🏢 DP World
📍 Melbourne, AustraliaFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 2w ago🔄 Updated: 2w ago
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DP World is seeking a Senior Accountant for its corporate accounting and tax team. The role involves ensuring accurate and timely financial, statutory, and tax reporting, with a focus on tax compliance, reconciliations, reporting schedules, and month/year-end close processes. The Senior Accountant will collaborate with internal teams and external advisors to meet reporting deadlines, strengthen controls, and enhance processes across the region. Key responsibilities include preparing tax and audit schedules, managing PAYG and BAS reporting, maintaining transfer pricing documentation, supporting tax governance and audits, assisting with budgets and forecasts, and guiding junior team members. The position also involves driving process improvements and ad hoc tasks.
Required Skills
Finance, Legal & Governance
Tax ComplianceBank ReconciliationMonth-End CloseTransfer PricingIT GovernanceInternal ControlsAuditingFinancial Analysis
Other
reporting schedulesyear-end closeAustralian tax lawentity tax returnsconsolidated tax returnsworkpapersPAYGBASGSTfuel exciseFBTannual budget preparationquarterly forecast preparationreconciliation reviewstax reporting tools
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Risk Assessment
Business, Sales & Management
Process Improvement
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Analytical SkillsProblem SolvingCommunication
Information Technology
ERP
Productivity & Workplace Tools
Excel
Nice to have:
Other
guidance of junior team members
Requirements
Requires a Degree in Accounting or Taxation with a CPA or CA qualification, and 5-7 years of post-qualification experience in accounting, tax, or corporate finance. Must have experience in preparing financial and tax reporting schedules, reconciliations, and compliance workpapers, with exposure to transfer pricing, GST, FBT, PAYG, and corporate income tax. Strong knowledge of financial accounting, reconciliations, taxation, regulatory reporting, and Australian tax legislation is essential. Experience with ERP systems, tax reporting tools, advanced Excel, and financial analysis skills are required. Experience in an in-house finance or corporate tax environment is highly desirable.
Description

About the role 

DP World is looking for a Senior Accountant to join our corporate accounting and tax team, helping keep our financial, statutory, and tax reporting accurate, timely, and fully compliant. You will play a key role in tax compliance, reconciliations, reporting schedules, and the discipline of month-end and year-end close.

You will work closely with Finance, Tax, internal teams, and external advisors, helping us hit our reporting deadlines, strengthen our controls, and find better ways of doing things across the region.

Key Accountabilities –  

  • Prepare tax and audit schedules, provisions, deferred tax calculations, and disclosures for half-year and year-end reporting
  • Support Group compliance with Australian tax law, including entity and consolidated tax returns, workpapers, and advisor support
  • Manage monthly PAYG and BAS reporting (GST, fuel excise, FBT) across group companies, ensuring timely ATO lodgement
  • Maintain transfer pricing documentation in line with group and local requirements
  • Support tax governance, internal controls, audits, and risk identification
  • Assist with annual budget and quarterly forecast preparation
  • Guide junior team members and promote consistent accounting and tax practices
  • Drive process improvements, reconciliation reviews, and support for internal/external audits and ad hoc tasks

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience required: 

  • Degree in Accounting or Taxation, with a professional accounting qualification (CPA or CA)
  • 5–7 years' post-qualification experience in accounting, tax, or corporate finance
  • Experience preparing financial and tax reporting schedules, reconciliations, and compliance workpapers
  • Exposure to transfer pricing, GST, FBT, PAYG, and corporate income tax
  • Experience in an in-house finance or corporate tax environment (highly desirable)
  • Strong knowledge of financial accounting, reconciliations, taxation, and regulatory reporting requirements
  • Sound understanding of Australian tax legislation and corporate tax compliance processes
  • Comfortable working to constant and demanding deadlines
  • A proven self-starter with strong initiative
  • High ethical standards, with the ability to handle highly confidential information
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Solid written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with ERP systems and tax reporting tools
  • Advanced Excel and financial analysis skills

 

About DP World

DP World is reshaping the future of global trade to improve lives everywhere. Operating across six continents with a team of over 125,000 employees, we combine global infrastructure and local expertise to deliver seamless supply chain solutions. From Ports and Terminals to Marine Services, Logistics and Technology, we leverage innovation to create better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

In Asia Pacific, DP World employs over 15,000 people across 22 geographies. We operate 17 ports and terminals, complemented by a comprehensive suite of end-to-end supply chain solutions - to connect the region to the rest of the world.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

 #LI-SK3

 

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