Corporate Accounting: Qualifications and Experiences Report Analysis

This report analyzes job advertisements collected from Australian job portals like Seek, Jora, and Indeed to determine the qualifications and experiences employers seek in corporate accountants. The study examines various job roles, including corporate financial and management accountants, tax accountants, and senior financial accountants, and identifies the key responsibilities and attributes highlighted in these advertisements. The report addresses questions related to job advertisement sources, company profiles, required job roles, essential accountant attributes, personal qualities, professional qualifications, and key responsibilities. The analysis reveals the importance of organizational skills, time management, attention to detail, strong work ethics, and communication skills. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the need for accountants to possess analytical abilities, a strong understanding of financial regulations, and proficiency in financial reporting. The findings provide valuable insights into the skills and qualifications that are crucial for success in the field of corporate accounting.

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Executive summary
The study topic deals with the job advertisements which play an important role in seeking the
best candidates for the particular post. On the other hand the study topic deals with the key
roles and responsibilities related to the corporate accounting as well as the key
responsibilities related to this aspect. The topic is supported by a suitable conclusion at the
end.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................3
Discussion......................................................................................................................3
Answer to question 1..................................................................................................3
Answer to question 2..................................................................................................3
Answer to question 3..................................................................................................4
Answer to question no 4.............................................................................................5
Answer to question no 5.............................................................................................6
Answer to question 6..................................................................................................7
Answer to question no 7.............................................................................................8
Answer to question no 8.............................................................................................9
Answer to question no 9...........................................................................................10
Conclusion....................................................................................................................11
References....................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The study topic deals with the number of job advertisements which have been
collected in some of the best job portals of Australia such as seek, jora and indeed. On the
other hand the study topic also deals with the key organisations which plays crucial role in
providing the best corporate jobs to the best possible candidates. Apart from this the study
also deals with the personal job attributes to the corporate accountant which have been
provided in the job advertisement. The key job advertisements are related to the key posts
like corporate financial and management accountant, tax accountant, and senior financial
accountant and many more along with the key job roles and attributes related to the job.
Discussion
Answer to question 1
Job advertisements are an important source to attract the right candidate towards the
right jobs. Hence it is seen that the basic important tools for these job advertisements are
related to the searching of proper and attractive and candidate oriented job advertisements.
However there are three best job portals like seek, jora and indeed have given ample number
of job advertisements. Hence out of these three job sites a total number of 35 job
advertisements relating to different posts have been collected.
Hence out of every source almost 10 jobs have been collected from each source.
Answer to question 2
Since the job sites posts different types of job hence it provides ample number of
opportunities to the best candidates to apply for the suitable job of their choice. Hence the
organisations provide many number of opportunities to apply for the various types of jobs.
However these companies have their vacancies in every posts and they head towards the
selection of those people who they think will be fit for the company. The Doyle executive is

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such a company who provides corporate management accounting in the locations of
Canberra. The company offers high salary package to their prospective employees and have
an exciting carrier opportunity for the candidates as a whole. This job is a full time job and
have a good craze over the public regarding this post. Further the company includes job
challenges and exciting reward and recognition system. Hence the company have assisted the
best strategic decision for the beneficial of the company. On the other hand the job role for
the tax manager to meet the investment purpose is aligned to the strategic business
discussion. Apart from this another company which is considered here is remedy resourcing
which is a Melbourne based company and provides a post of senior or intermediate
accountant with exciting amount of proposed salary and other added benefits. (Kim et al.
2013). The Mittal industry is a pioneer in the steel industry who require some experienced
candidates in the steel sector for the post of accountant with a good amount of salary to give
to the employees. On the other hand the NEC Australia pvt ltd have also posted job
advertisements in the position of financial accounting manager. EY is another company
which is located in Adelaide which had posted the job advertisements of senior consultant.
This company looks to maintain audit structure and looks to provide good solutions related to
the technology.
Answer to question 3
The role of the company financial manager is to understand the rules and regulations
of the country. Hence the job role which have been posted by the Doyle executive provides
the role of the accounts manager who are determined to undergo strong ethical values and
beliefs which are associated with the company rules and regulations. Hence the payroll part
time manager is related to the job advertisement of the council. Hence the tax manager
provides the illustrations to the corporate management team and to generate overall outputs to
the process. Apart from this the senior business associate is the role which is posted by the

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commercial associate to increase the business growth. Hence the process is associated to the
consultancy firm who provide the taxation opportunity to the company individual. Hence the
process is located towards the operations of the commercial associates and could look to
increase the overall business growth. Apart from this the role of the accounts manager is also
an important area to consider for the tax associates to improve the profitability and increase
business efficiency. Hence the advertisement benefits which are being related to the process
for the post of the accounts manager plays an important part regarding this aspect. Thus it can
be said that these companies will draw the benefits for the betterment of the association.
Answer to question no 4
The professional accountant are often very much precise with an eye to keep detail
and the vast practical knowledge. Hence it is important for the companies to cross check
every small mistakes and look to rectify the process. Hence the job advertisements provide
the basic details to maintain the financial performance of the company. Thus the key
responsibilities or attributes which are important for the accountants are as follows-
Excellent organizing power
The accountants look to keep all the figures collected over the daily paperwork.
Hence there is a need of system which could quickly and instantly find the needful
information. Hence the company accountants need to organise the overall productivity and
could allow the undistributed tasks and resources.
Time management
The time management skills are very important aspect towards the contribution of the
strategic decision making. Since the process require a lot of data management system, hence
it is important for the company perspective to maintain the proper time schedule as well as to
maintain most of the time work.

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Attention to detail
Hence these traits are obviously the important to consider and the company
accountants need to assure that they numbers they provide are correct. Hence the part of due
diligence is a part of the modus operandi and this is something which the employers need to
remind in this process.
The post of senior tax accountants is a position where a lot of recruitment is
conducted. Another such company is the Avant future group who had also posted the job
advertisements related to the senior accountant post. Hence the assistant manager’s post
offered by this company to the prospecting candidates also provides future growth and
exposure to the carrier.
The other roles are as follows-
 Assistant accountant
 Accounts receivable officer.
 Operations accountant.
 Financial administrator.
 Corporate financial manager.
 Finance assistant
 Assistant accountant
 Finance officer.
 Finance manager.
 Administrative officer.
 Senior book keeper.
 Financial accountant
 Investment analysis

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 Senior financial system accountant
 Financial analyst
 Group financial accountant
 Loan support
 Finance business partner
 Accounts payable specialist
 Commercial analyst
 Accounts receivable
 Accounts payable officer
 Accounts receivable officer
 Junior financial analyst
 Business analysis partner
 Senior associate
 Management accountant
 Accounts lead
 Finance manager
 Senior analyst
 Production controller
 Commercial analyst
 IT Portfolio finance analyst
 Financial analyst and assistant manager.
 Group corporate analyst.

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Answer to question no 5
 The corporate accountants have to follow certain key personal attributes. These are as
follows-
 Attention to the detailed substantive process.
 Requirement of excellent management skills to sustain productivity.
 High Amount of communication skills are required.
 The person needs to maintain a very strong work ethics which plays an important role
to the power of corporate adequacy.
 High organised mantainence resources towards maintaining the accounting
performance.
Answer to question 6
Since the accountants drive the overall business decisions through an accurate and orderly
management process related to the finance and cash flows. Hence there are certain
professional qualifications which are very much required from the company or business
perspective. Hence it is important for the corporate accountant to be good at analysis and in
communicational skills that are very much important in order to-
 Maintain and inspect the key financial accounting areas.
 Report over the financial performance
 To understand of the overall financial laws and regulations.
 To prepare and compute the tax change values.
 Propose solutions to clear roadblocks.
Hence in this case the key skills which are required in order to become a successful
accounting leader are as follows-

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Excellent in math
In order to do well in this sectors the companies are in look for those people who are
good in numbers as well as good to understand the revolves related to the cash flow and
finances.
Extreme organising power
It is often seen that people make problems while keeping the records. Hence it is the
responsibility of the company to maintain the orderly accuracy of the recorded entries and the
accounts officers have to maintain the records to the nearest office desk (Jørgensen and
Rutgers 2014).
Investigative mind-set
The accountant have to go on digging towards doing in depth investigation and as
well as not to give up unless and until the mystery gets resolved.
Sharp eye for detail
The accountants cannot just simply ignore the key points. They have to look on every
details. Thus any misplacement which had been caused by the accountant can affect the
financial statements as a whole and this effect could look to affect the profitability of the
company overall.
Answer to question no 7
Every company management has to follow up certain key roles, responsibilities and
idea before hiring any person for their company. Similarly in Australia also the company who
look to hire the best possible candidates for the jobs in the posts like senior accountant, tax
accountant, and management accountant also looks to follow certain key roles,

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responsibilities and share their views with the people. Hence in general for any company
manager the key roles and responsibilities are as follows-
Selection of better person
The selection of the right people for the job is an important factor for any company.
Especially for the banks or any such financial organisations it is important aspect because the
company will always look to go for those people who they think can manage the business
properly. Moreover can look to maintain certain balance between the company asset and
liabilities, owner’s capital, reserve, who could manage the financial statements and the cash
flow in a proper way, make intre group transactions, and look to increase the business by
putting more investment upfront (Hauff and Gousios 2015,).
Develop and nurture the team members
The company can’t just only sit back and relax by leaving the fate to the employee’s
hand. Basically for the finance sectors where a lot of importance is given to the management
of investment, asset and liabilities and to increase and expand the overall business it is
important to spend time over the development and nurture the employees to bring out the best
result from them and make them motivated always so that they be always ready to deliver.
Hence the key roles and responsibilities of the corporate accountant is determined to the
financial performance and gap identification to balance the financial performance of the
company. Apart from this there are several other roles and responsibilities have been initiated
with this aspect.
Answer to question no 8
The job advertisement is the most prior step for any employee to get noticed by the
company at a glance. Hence in order to select the best candidate it is important to prepare the
job description in such a way where the candidate can apparently build interest and look to

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know some more related to the job description, salary structure, key applied skills and
preferred locations. Hence especially for the financial institutes or organisations. Hence the
aspect at the time of hiring the most deserving candidate it is important apply the key skills,
knowledge and the attributes that will be very much suitable for the employees to imply
within the candidates. Hence the basic important features which additionally is required by
any company are as follow-
Key skills
It is the most important area to consider for any organisation. In order to get the right
people for the job it is needed to ask about the skillsets which are important to complete this
job and whether this candidate do have the right skill that is needed to perform the jobs (Rear,
2013).
Job description
The candidate needs to know about the company he is applying for as well as the job
role for which the candidate is applying for should be matching with the needs posted. Hence
for managing the company finance also the job sites must look to post the full job description
that should look to attract the job seekers as a whole.
The salary structure
It is considered to be another important part for the company perspective. Since the
salary play an important part to life. Hence it is important that the company needs to talk
about the money they are going to provide to this particular candidate applying for the post.
Hence it can be said that If all these key attributes, process as well as the learning outcomes
are added to this context. It may lead the job sites to attract more candidates to the job and it
will be increasing the business of those companies as a whole.

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Answer to question no 9
Identifying the skills will lead the management to succeed in the corporate accounting
will not only increase the job satisfaction but will also build long term goals for the employee
these skills are as follows-
Organisation
Accountants are considered as the important people to the industry since they manage
a lot of responsibility which keeps them busy every time. Hence to be a good accountant it is
important to keep track of those responsibilities and to meet the deadline. Hence it will fulfil
all the responsibilities. On the other hand the tools like calendars, planners and colour codes
posted will help to fulfil the duties to the best of the abilities (Ocholla and Shongwe 2013).
Time management
It is a must for every organisation and try to improve the skill set. Since to manage the
workload properly the time management plays an important part hence the process is proven
to be a skilful tool. Hence as an accountant they are responsible to complete priorities and
juggle the mistakes while completing the process on time. Thus the ability to work within the
deadline and to give priority to those aspect and thus by making the process more productive
as a whole.
On the other hand to be a successful accounting manager it is important to take utmost
care and responsibility to the process the individual is likely following and looking to get the
most out of it. Hence the MPA unit corporate accounting process helps to create some
importance like accounting for asset and liabilities, tax accounting, share capital reserve and
surplus process. Hence all these topics try to follow some distinct importance to the process.

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Hence being an accountant it is important to maintain a certain balance between the aspects
and to analyse the importance of corporate accounting to them.
It is important from the company perspective to clear the needs to accumulate the data
in a confidential purpose to enhance the performance to meet the overall resources in
association to enhance more productivity to present the financial information. Hence the
skills are related to the comprising efficiency of the financial structure.
Conclusion
Hence it can be concluded that the job responsibility which have been provided by the
Australian companies with the help of three of the best job search engine in Australia all the
jobs collected give a learning curve to the individual as well as they face challenges at the
jobs which makes them more work oriented and focus oriented. Apart from this the key
responsibilities have been identified to the process. The professional and the educational
qualifications are also considered as an important part to follow. Lastly the MPA units like
asset and liability accounting, share capital and revenue statement have also become an
important part.

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