About Demant:

Demant is a world-leading hearing healthcare group that offers solutions and services to help people with hearing loss connect and communicate with the world around them. For more than a century, the Demant Grouphas played a vital part in developing innovative technologies and know-how to help improve people’s health and hearing. In every aspect, from hearing devices, hearing implants and diagnostic equipment to hearing care all over the world, Demant is active and engaged. A growing businessin intelligent audio solutions for gaming and office communication is also asignificant part of the Group.

The Demant Group operates in a global market with companies in more than 30 countries, employs approx. 17,500 people globally. Our productsare sold in more than 130 countries where we create life-changingdiff erences through hearing health.

Responsibilities:

Offshoring Transition Support

• Lead the transition of selected finance processes to offshore teams
• Document end-to-end accounting processes and control frameworks
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training material
• Support knowledge transfer sessions and onboarding of offshore resources
• Monitor transition effectiveness and resolve process issues during stabilisation
• Act as the ANZ subject matter expert for transitioned processes

Financial Accounting and Controls

• Support month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations
• Monitor intercompany transactions and reconciliations
• Review journals, accruals, prepayments and accounting adjustments
• Assist in maintaining compliance with IFRS and Demant accounting policies
• Support internal control and audit requirements
• Responsible for Balance Sheet Recs

Business Improvement

• Identify process improvement and automation opportunities
• Support D365 and other finance transformation initiatives
• Assist with reporting standardisation across ANZ entities
• Help establish KPI monitoring for offshore performance

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with Finance Managers, FP&A and Shared Services teams
• Build strong working relationships with offshore counterparts
• Escalate risks impacting financial reporting quality or timelines

Other

• Be a Point of Contact for the Retail Clinics across Australia and New Zealand
• Coordinate the issuance of Bank Guarantees with Property Team and Bank and maintain the Bank Guarantee Register
• Other Ad-hoc tasks that may come up with relation to Clinic Governance and relationship
• Monthly review and commentary of specific P&L accounts related to the role
• Fulfil all audit requirements in a timely and accurate manner
• Respond to queries from Group, related to the Role

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Commerce majoring in accounting or similar – desired
• Professional Accounting Qualification (CA, CPA or equivalent)

Skills and Abilities

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven ability to have partnered with the business on process improvements
• Proven ability to design and implement a strong controls environment
• Strong technical knowledge and implementation of current IFRS
• Strong time management, ability to prioritise and meet timelines under pressure, willing to work with the team to achieve deadlines where needed outside of normal duties
• Highly motivated proactive self-starter who demonstrates initiative and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Experience working in a fast paced, deadline focused, high volume role; multi-tasking with attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills, including management and presentation of data, pivot tables, modelling for reporting and audit purposes, VLOOKUP’s, Index Match and others
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experienced at financial and management report preparation and variance analysis

Knowledge:

• Highly developed IT skills, particularly in Excel and ERP systems
• Experience using Microsoft Dynamics AX preferred, but not essential
• Mastery of month-end close and reporting processes with subsidiaries in multi-national companies
• Technical knowledge and practical application of accounting standards

Experience:

• Significant demonstrated experience working in a similar role or higher; minimum 5+ years like for like experience
• Experience working in a complex Health or Retail environment
• Experience including exposure to cashiering, property leases
• Experience working for a subsidiary of a large multinational company

We are offering:

• Competitive salary + Super
• Work-life balance
• Opportunity to develop and apply SQL and data manipulation skills and to leverage IT tools to automate and streamline processes
• "My Reward" program benefits.
• Employee assistance program
• Friendly and supportive environment