Corporate Accounting Manager
Xero
Accounting & Finance
Wellington, New Zealand
Posted on Jan 20, 2025
Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
The Corporate Accounting Manager is responsible for supporting the wider Accounting Team. You will enjoy implementing new processes or ways of working that will create efficiencies, and will have a great eye for detail. Reporting to the Head of Group Accounting, you will build strong relationships throughout the business and become a trusted advisor to the business.
What you’ll do..
- Manage the verification process of our disclosures and claims to external stakeholders including Xerocons, Investor roadshows, and interim/year end reporting claims
- Drive efficiencies in account payable processes, supporting the accounts payable manager to identify and embed areas for process improvement and automation
- Work closely with the accounts payable, billing and treasury teams to develop, implement best practice policy guidance, application and adherence such as the Delegated Authority Framework
- Support our statutory compliance responsibilities including small business payment reporting
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and accuracy of accounting processes and implement best practices
- Be an important link between the finance function and wider business to help support business wide initiatives
- Participate in significant corporate or company-wide finance projects and initiatives as directed by the EGM - Accounting and Head of Group Accounting
What you’ll bring to the role..
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience in accounting, either in large corporate or big 4 accounting firms.
- CA qualified or equivalent certification
- Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite Oracle, or similar).
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with business intelligence tooling (e.g. AnaPlan).
- Knowledge of IFRS, GAAP, and accounting principles related to intercompany transactions in consolidations.
- Critical competencies
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Problem solving skills and proven ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
- Strong planning, organisational and self management skills
- A genuine team player who works collaboratively with and contributes to the function of a high performing team
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings
Success looks like..
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of information, facilitate smooth reporting, and support compliance with both internal policies and external regulations.
- Understanding the business, and building relationships at all levels across the business
- Enthusiasm to support a fast paced finance function and contribute to the ongoing development of the wider finance team
- Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.