Tax Accountant

About This Role

This role focuses on tax-effect accounting within a leading energy company's finance team, while also supporting joint venture accounting, group consolidation, and financial reporting. The position is full-time and permanent, suitable for an experienced tax accountant.

Responsibilities

• Support the Tax Manager with tax-effect accounting entries and reconciliations, annual income tax return inputs, and PRRT working papers
• Support end-to-end JV accounting, including monthly cost allocations, cash calls, JV billing statements, partner billings, and fixed asset accounting
• Assist with the group consolidation journals and reconciliations, including entities with a US$ functional currency
• Support quarterly and annual management reporting to the Head Office
• Assist with statutory financial statement preparation and audit schedules

Requirements

• Approximately 5-7+ years of practical accounting experience
• Sound understanding of tax-effect accounting
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups and data handling
• Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills
• Highly organised and able to manage competing deadlines in a multi-entity reporting environment
• Relevant accounting qualifications
• Full Australian working rights

Nice to have:

• Japanese language skills
• SAP, particularly S/4HANA experience
• Experience in oil & gas, resources, or other JV-based industries
• JV accounting, consolidation and/or tax experience
• Multi-currency accounting environments or consolidation systems experience

About the Company

PERSOL is one of the largest and fastest-growing HR service providers in the Asia Pacific region and an affiliate of PERSOL HOLDINGS Co. Ltd (Japan). Our client is a leading energy company.