Scope of Corporate Accountant Jobs in Australia - Desklib

HI5020- Scope of Corporate Accountant Jobs in
Australia
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Abstract
Accounting, as a profession, is reckoned as one of the oldest white color job since the
inception of business in global perspective. With the increasing complexity of business
environment, the need of accountant is getting intense. In Australia, the need of
accountant is also observed in different segment. Mainly this article will concentrate on
the issue of employment opportunities in corporate accounting at Australia. Present
trends of employment options are widened through online job portal, which give
convenient scope for both employers and aspirant candidates to meet in a common
online platform to exchange needs of both the parties. This article will provide an idea of
this concept by taking real life examples of job opportunities available in different online
job portals of Australia related to positions of corporate accounting. The demand of this
analysis is to get answers related to different questions of corporate accounting job
opportunities by online job portals. This article will also emphasize on the requirements
of corporate accounting jobs from the candidature viewpoint related to desired
qualification and experience as per the demand of the employers related to respective
role and tasks and good understanding of corporate accounting jobs in Australia.
Key words: Corporate Accountant; Online job portal; Advertisement, Employer;
Employee; qualification; role; tasks.
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 4
Source-wise analysis of advertisement considered....................................................4
Analysis of industry and organization advertisement samples...................................5
Analysis of employment opportunity as per respective profile...................................7
Personal attributes..................................................................................................... 9
Critical discussion of personal attributes..................................................................10
Professional and academic qualifications.................................................................11
Positional demand of key roles, responsibilities and tasks.......................................12
Missing topics in MPA and HI5020............................................................................ 13
Analysis of referred skills, experience and attributes of corporate accountant........13
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 13
References............................................................................................................... 14
Appendices:.............................................................................................................. 16
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Introduction
Australia is considered as one of the developed countries in the world. Due to such
status of Australia, different global business entities gather in this country for their
business promotion. For running any business, the role of corporate accountants cannot
be denied. In Australia, the demand of corporate accountant is increasing as per the
growing demand of Australian business. For connecting right candidate in this segment,
the employers use to depend upon the online job portals, which provide convenient
platform for the employers and the candidates. The employers advertise with their
needs about accounting employment and the aspirant candidates apply for the post.
The main advantage of this type of job advertisement in online portals is its time
flexibility. This flexibility of time period from online job portal advertisements gives the
employer good mileage with cost effective impact. This feature proves the worth of
online job portal for employers as well as for employees. The requirement of employers
is mentioned in brief and concise manner in those job portals to make the employees
aware of matching those requirements of employers by their credentials. There are
certain technical features of accounting jobs to be mentioned in the advertisements,
which can attract right person for the position of corporate accountant. This article will
discuss all relevant information about the advertisements in online job portals for
corporate accountant of Australia with the specific features like the requirements, role,
tasks and respective deliverables in context with MPA and Hi5020 corporate accounting
courses prevailing in Australia.
Source-wise analysis of advertisement considered
For this case study, thirty samples are selected from four different online job portals of
Australia related to corporate accountant and financial accountant. It is observed that
best source of advertisement is proved to be seek.com contributing 15 sample
advertisements. (seek, n,d) The second contributor is indeed.com with 12 sample
advertisement. Adzuna.com has contributed with two samples while Hays has
contributed one sample. All these advertisements are related to corporate accountant
and financial accountant. (Mallory, n.d)
Source-wise analysis of advertisement considered
Source Samples
adzuna.com 2
Hays 1
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Indeed.com 12
Seek.com 15
Total 30
The following pie-chart shows the contribution by different online job portals related to
considered portfolios of corporate accountant and financial accountant.
Samples
adzuna.com
Hays
Indeed.com
Seek.com
Analysis of industry and organization advertisement samples
While analyzing the samples considered for this case study, it is inferred that there are
different employers advertise in online job portals for employment or selection of right
candidate to meet their requirement. It is also found that the employers either advertise
directly in the online job portals or through the human resource solutions provider. The
employers selected for this case study are mainly from ASX listed companies. It can
also be noticed that there are numbers of instances, where the name of the employer
was not mentioned. Basic reason for this hiding of name is the employer advertised
through human resource providers, who did not want to disclose their client names.
Sl. No. Company Industry
Adv 1 First Graphene Ltd Infrastructure
Adv 2 Beach Energy Ltd Energy
Adv 3 Allura FMCG
Adv 4 Paybang Pty Ltd.
E-commerce and financial
services
Adv 5 National Service Finance
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Group
Adv 6 Not disclosed Service
Adv 7 Not disclosed IT Distribution
Adv 8 Pirtek Australia Infrastructure
Adv 9 MPC Kinetic Infrastructure
Adv 10 Studco Infrastructure
Adv 11 iSelect Finance
Adv 12 Lawson Elliott Human resource
Adv 13 OZ Minerals Mining
Adv 14 ME Bank Finance
Adv 15 Pepper Group Finance
Adv 16
Redpath Partners
Pty ltd Human resource
Adv 17 MPC Group Infrastructure
Adv 18 Rio Tinto Mining
Adv 19 Suncorp Group Finance
Adv 20 Myer Retail chain
Adv 21
Australian Solicitor
Group Service
Adv 22 Freshmax Group Organic food
Adv 23 Solar Juice Energy
Adv 24 Not disclosed Entertainment
Adv 25 Not disclosed Infrastructure
Adv 26
National Service
Group Finance
Adv 27 Not disclosed Mining
Adv 28 Reo Group Finance
Adv 29 Not disclosed Infrastructure
Adv 30 Racing Victoria IT Distribution
There is another analysis of considered samples as per industries. It is found that most
of the employment opportunities (seven) are offered by finance and infrastructure
companies. Mining companies advertised three of these samples considered. Two
companies each of energy; human resource solutions; and IT distribution and service
sectors have advertised for qualified corporate accountants. Industries namely E-
commerce and financial services, entertainment, FMCG, organic food and retail chain
segment have advertised one each. This projection is determinant to derive the HR
turnover of the respective industries.
Industry-wise analysis of samples
considered
Energy 2
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E-commerce and financial
services 1
Entertainment 1
Finance 7
FMCG 1
Human resource 2
Infrastructure 7
IT Distribution 2
Mining 3
Organic food 1
Retail chain 1
Service 2
Total
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The above analysis was projected through the below graph to understand the industry-
wise contribution of samples chosen related to employment offer for the aspirant
candidates related to corporate and financial accountant.
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Industry-wise analysis of samples
considered
Analysis of employment opportunity as per respective profile
The guideline for selection of job opportunities is to consider corporate accountant and
corporate financial accountant. It is followed with the basic nomenclature of job titles
with deviation of designation name as per the advertisement selected for this case
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study. The position of corporate accountant contributes highest with sixteen instances of
the samples selected. Second contributor is financial accountant with eight instances.
Corporate financial accountant has appeared two times in these samples, while
corporate assistant accountant; corporate financial control accountant, senior corporate
accountant and senior corporate accountant-technical are appeared with one instance
each.
Job Title wise analysis of Advertisement
Job Title
Sample
s
Corporate accountant 16
Corporate Assistant Accountant 1
Corporate Financial Accountant 2
Corporate Financial Control
Accountant 1
Financial Accountant 8
Senior Corporate Accountant 1
Sr. Corporate Accountant-
Technical 1
Total 30
The below pie-chart depicts the contribution of these positions with their respective
presentation. All these positions are mainly covered under the nomenclature of
corporate accountant with different name of job titles specified in the advertisements in
different online job portal, as per employers’ specification.
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