Comprehensive Analysis of Corporate Accounting Job Advertisements

This report provides an analysis of corporate accounting job advertisements in Australia, focusing on the skills, qualifications, and experience sought by employers. The report examines various sources of job advertisements, including online platforms such as Indeed.com and LinkedIn, and identifies the names of companies posting these ads, categorized by industry type. It then lists job titles and details the personal attributes, technical skills, and academic/professional qualifications required for corporate accounting roles. The report also interrelates these job requirements with the topics covered in the MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting, and identifies any additional skills or knowledge gaps. Finally, it offers a critical evaluation of the skills and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant, and the role of the MPA unit in preparing aspiring professionals for this field.

CORPORATE
ACCOUNTING

ABSTRACT
This report is all about the checklist of the advertisement that is affix by the corporate of
Australian for the requirement of post for corporate accountant. It also described the professional
skill, knowledge, experience and various ability for the post are also included in this reports. In
addition to MPA unit HI 5020 also included to complete the report. All are the qualities of a
account to become a corporate accountant is required.
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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Accumulation of Job Advertisements and its sources:............................................................3
2. Name of corporates that posted the different advertise and their related industry
breakdown:...................................................................................................................................4
3. List of the Job Titles mentioned in collected advertisements:.................................................6
4. Personal Attributes needed for the corporate accountant which mentioned in collected Job
Advertisements:...........................................................................................................................6
5. List of Requisite Personal Attributes with in collected Job Advertisements in a detailed way.
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6. Academic and Professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed..10
7. Interrelationship of tasks, roles and responsibility of job advertisements with the topics of
MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting:..................................................................................11
8. Additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from MPA unit
HI5020Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement.....................................12
9. Critically evaluation of the skills, experience and attributes that needed to become a
corporate accountant. As well as role of topics of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting to
become a corporate accountant..................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
Corporate accounting is main field of the accounting that deals in the preparing and
consolidating of a enterprise's general accounts and the financial statements. It is fundamental
accounting presses that refers to accounting for the particular company which includes the
preparation of their financial accounts, cash flow statement, measuring the financial result and
specific financial events like amalgamation, merger and acquisition, consolidated final statement.
The accounts of the company collects the financial, reports and relevant account from particular
division and accumulated the financial information and data to prepare the financial statements
for the management of the company (Bloom, 2013). In order to preparation of the financial
reports and statement the corporate accountant are responsible for role and duty. In the project
report the qualification, technical skill and experience are mentioned for the post of the corporate
accountant. In further, it covers the content related to job advertisement for the professional. And
Interest and educational status are required for the post is also included in this reports.
MAIN BODY
1. Accumulation of Job Advertisements and its sources:
Job advertisement can be collected from different sources in relevance with corporate
accounting. Every corporates are required accountants to prepare the financial reports of that
enterprise. Corporates are advertise the vacant post for corporate accountant by various channel.
And here the job advertisement are collected by using different channel on national and
international web site (Hillier, Ross and Jordan, 2013). Here several sources of gathered job
advertisements are mentioned as follows:
Advertisement Number (On the base
Appendices Subdivision)
Channel Number of Sources extracted
1 Indeed.com 1
2 Job-seeker.com 1
3 Glassdor.com 1
4 Gumtree.com 1
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5 Adzuna.com 1
6 Indeed.com 1
7 Glassdoor.com 1
8 Indeed.com 1
9 Jobseeker.com 1
10 Indeed.com 1
11 Indeed.com 1
12 Linkdin.com 1
13 Job seekers.com 1
14 Glass door.com 1
15 Indeed.com 1
16 Job seeker.com 1
17 Indeed.com 1
18 Glassdoor.com 1
19 Linkdin 1
20 Indeed.com 1
21 Glassdoor.com 1
22 Indeed.com 1
23 Jobseeker.com 1
24 Indeed.com 1
25 Indeed.com 1
26 Linkdin.com 1
27 Job seekers.com 1
28 Indeed.com 1
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29 Job seeker.com 1
30 Glassdoor.com 1
2. Name of corporates that posted the different advertise and their related industry breakdown:
In this area of the project report, the name of enterprises that are post advertisement for
vacancy of corporates accountant posts are considered in this section (Momin, 2013). The name
of the companies are mentioned in this section with the industry types for the vacancy of
corporates accountants by referencing the appendices section as follows:
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Company Name Industry type
1 Wise tech global Information technogy
2 Robert Walters Recruitment consultancy
3 WT partners Finance consultancy
4 UBER, Strathfield Transportation
5 2 XM finance Accounting
6 Intuitive recruitment Recruitment consultancy
7 Mighty hive Media consultancy
8 Brookfield properties Construction
9 Ingenium group Information technology
10 Grant thornton Finance consultancy
11 GFG alliance Manufacturing company
12 Hays Recruitment agency
13 Reo group Finance company
14 Stark Visas private limited Consultancy company
15 Meritide advisor private limited Financial advisor
16 Ord Minnett Wealth management
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17 Perpetual limited Investment advisor
18 Chep Retail supplier
19 Puma energy Oil company
20 Broad construction Construction company
21 Optiver Finance consultancy
22 Pepper Finance consultancy
23 Mightyhive Media consultancy
24 Hays Human resources
25 iselect Finance consultancy
26 Robert half Human resources
27 KONE corporation lifts, elevator and escalator
industry.
28 Aldi stores Australia Grocery stores chain
29 Machael page Human resources
30 Macias consulting pty Ltd Human resources
3. List of the Job Titles mentioned in collected advertisements:
On the basis of below mentioned job advertisements, herein titles of required jobs are
mentioned such as:
 Senior Corporate Financial Accountant,
 Corporate Financial and Management Accountant,
 Financial Accountant,
 Senior Financial Accountant,
 Senior Tax Accountant,
 Corporate Accountant,
 Junior Management Accountant,
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 Senior Tax Accountant,
 Tax Accountant
 Corporate system accountant
 Senior corporate account manager
 Senior accountant
4. Personal Attributes needed for the corporate accountant which mentioned in collected Job
Advertisements:
Personal attributes are the quality of a person that separate from other individual. These
are the personal characteristics, traits of an individual. These skill may vary as per the person
skill and ability for example honesty, good sense (Biondi, 2012). These are the inner skill of an
individual and are type of soft skill that are intangible or difficult to understand by another
person. Here is that are needed for the different post job as per the appendices as mentioned as
follows:
 Interpersonal skill like communication (verbal, non verbal), representation body
language, handling emotions and resolution of conflicts.
 Work as team member
 Leadership skill
 passionate and motivated to task
 Willing to learn more
 ability to handle pressure
 Ability of coordinative
 Flexible as per the demand of organisation
 Quality in work
 Time management skills
 Creative
 Strong sense of ethical motive
 Technical skills related to selected position
 Extreme trustworthiness
 Problem-solving skills
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All the these are the personal attributes that are required in a corporate manager and other
related post.
5. List of Requisite Personal Attributes with in collected Job Advertisements in a detailed way.
From the above mentioned section of this project report, there are antithetic types of
attributes and characteristics that are being seen by an system in the person, that is known as
personal attributes (Agarwal and Medury, 2014). Here, description of above skills and attributes
that must be in the person enclosed that is as under:
Strong sense of ethics - This is the most personal attributes in a person or individual. A
person must have the sense of the ethics while work or willing to work in a corporates. This is
common skill that is foreseen by a corporation in a person. A person who is working in a
corporates must ethical in the manner of accountability, integrity, perception. The applicants are
expected to be ethical while performing its work with discipline and regular basis. These
applicant are trained professionally in the business organisation with a high sense of ethics as to
set a quality standard in the organisation. It is crucial that this dimension is being identified
during the working time period.
Technical skills related to position - These are the abilities and skill that is required in
the person to perform the activities related to the business. These are the special tech based
capability that are required in the person to perform better in the enterprises. These skill may be
depend on the practical knowledge of a person or related to mechanical, information technology,
mathematical and scientific tasks. It is needed in the applicants to perform better in the
organisation. This is the most important skill that is relevant to corporate accountant post.
Technical skills are the sound knowledge of the main field of accounting that is necessary for the
same post (Brown and Dillard,2015).
Trustworthiness - This is the professional power of the personal attributes that is
depends on the ability to relied on the honest and trustfulness. It is all about or depends on the
strengthening the relationship with colleagues and sharpen the self awareness in the particular
organisation. It increases the appropriateness and transparency in the business and teammates.
These are the basic attributes in the organisation that are required in the prospected applicants
while performing the task activities. It is based on the human belief, culture and other aspects of
the person.
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Problem solving skills - These are the skills that is related with determining the problem
and find a better solution to the problem. These are the main skill in the management applicants
that are identified as its own abstracted skill, there are other accompanying skills that contribute
to this ability. Some of the problem-solving are includes as active listening, analysis, research
based, creativity, decision making, team building and communication. This is the inbuilt skill in
a person that can not be taught to particular person but trained to the person to enhance the level
of profession. In the context to post for the corporate accountant, prospect person should have
skill to solve any type of financial problem (Chircop, Collins and Hass, 2018).
Ability of coordinating & communicating with others – This is the most and key skill
in the corporate accountant. There are the different types of the communication process from
management to workers such as upward and downward communication process. Impressive and
effective communication and coordination skills can yield an employee to higher level as well as
the upcoming applicants can help in acquiring good earnings as per these attributes. On the other
hand, in the lack of this dimension, it can be challenging for a candidate to get a job and good
return from the organisation. For the corporate accountant, coordinating skill are important to
represent the financial statements and report in the business in front of managing director with
strong and impressive communication abilities. Otherwise, it would be difficult to management
of the company to interpret the financial health of the company. So this concept of attributes
related to a corporate accountant is required in the professional level (Choi, Lee and Park,
2013).
Flexibility as per the obligation of organisation - Workers should be able to work as
per the requirement of the business without making issue of its own working time unit. This skill
is required as per the flexible needs of the organisation. Otherwise it may consists the conflicts in
the organisation. The flexibility is not consider in the time format but there are a lot of factor that
create some issue in the working condition, pay-scale of the employee in the organisation. Such
as above mentioned companies that is posted the advertising are required to need the flexibility
in the prospective applicants.
Accuracy in work - It is crucial skill that needed to perform the task appropriately and
accurately. This skill and attribute is based on the professional skills and ability of an individual
to work at different situation. It is essential for worker to execute project and roles with proper
quality. In the aspect of corporate accountant role, the quality and accuracy is mandatory in order
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to prepared financial reports and statements by controller of books and accounts. If any error
found in the financial evidence that may lead to vast loss for company so it is a necessary
attribute and skill in corporate accountant. And it may causes the negative impact on the
particular company.
Creativity - This is the most crucial skill that is needed in the person to apply a
innovative approaches in the business strategies. As per this skill, an individual can complete
given task and work in creative manner. If employees are creative then it is beneficial to
companies as they can settle the issue by their regulatory skills . Herein, the context for the post
of accountant, the creativeness is important to represent the the financial statements in a
effective manner to its users (Di Pietra, McLeay and Ronen, 2013).
Time management – This is the most important skill that defined as the ability of a
person to use the time effectively and efficiently in order to enhance the productivity of the unit
especially at workplace. This is the process of planning and controlling that includes the time
spend on the particular activities to complete the task and projects. Effective time management
facilitate a individual completing its project or task with in given period of time. For the post of
the accountant this attributes are required to settle the financial issue with less time consuming to
complete the task or projects and prepare the financial statement and report by using the financial
information and data.
6. Academic and Professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed
in the collected advertisements-
Academic and professional qualification that is required in the corporate accountant are
as follows:
 Complete knowledge of information system and its uses in calculation of the accounting
data.
 Good sound knowledge the computer system and process such as Microsoft excel, power
point and formula to calculate the budget and reports.
 Certified degree and courses of the professional like charted accountant (CA), chief
financial officer (CFO).
 Experience of working in the corporates and financial services company.
 Detailed knowledge of the corporate taxation, rules and processors of the particular
country laws (Donohoe and Robert Knechel, 2014).
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Interpersonal skill and quality to interact with the other in a proper manner. So these are
professional skills which are required for the corporate account in an organisation. These are the
skill which differs the person from another candidates. Except from the personal skill,
professional skill are also important and require in a corporate accountant. It help in the
preparing the financial statement and reports by using the financial information and data and it
business activities. Company is hiring the candidates for the post of corporate accountant and see
and check the skill related to professional as well as personal attributes in the prospected
applicants.
The key role for the corporate accountant is to provide the faithful content related to
accounting standard and principle to company's management so they can analyse ready report
financial condition by assessing various financial statements. In addition to , the organisations
can direct their business trading operations in a proper manner or effectively when corporate
accountant execute their work or job by using the gathered data, analysed information and
interpreted statement and reports. It is also beneficial for reckoning financial strategies or
budgets on the basis of financial statements stated by corporate accountant (Evangelinos,
Nikolaou and Leal Filho, 2015).
7. Interrelationship of tasks, roles and responsibility of job advertisements with the topics of
MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting:
For the job advertisement for the post of corporate accountant, there are various skills
required to play the key role of the account. The roles and responsibilities of the corporate
accountant are important aspect of the purpose of the maintaining the records in the books of
accounts and provides the mandatory information as required by the management of the
company. In the aspect of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting, there are certain topic of
account that is covers under this aspects like assets, liabilities and income tax provision. These
topic are related with the job role of accountant. This topics of consists the different feature of
accounting that plays a significant function for the post of corporate accountants. Here some
topics of MPA unit HI5020 of Corporate accounting are as follows:
Accounting for assets - This section is related with information and data regarding the
transactions of assets. This process covers the data related to accounting for the purchase and
uses of the assets. The role and responsibility of the corporate accountant is to deal with assets
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class and accounting for the related records like depreciation. So the corporate accountant
should know the process to records this particular subjects in the books of the entity.
Accounting for non controlling assets - This topic of corporates accounting using the
data from previous year financial statement to record the transaction of assets. It is important for
the accountant should have the knowledge about recording of non controlling assets like interest
(Richardson, 2013).
Accounting of income tax- In the corporate accounting, the task and job role for the
particular MPA unit HI5020 of accounting is to ascertain the income tax laws and provision to
prepare the statements and reports by following the provision of laws in accounting. For example
in the ingenium group they need a candidates who have detailed cognition about income tax. For
the post of the corporate accountant, it is required good sound knowledge of their profession.
Translating the Financial Statements of Foreign Operations - This topic of MPA
portion HI5020 Corporate accounting is aligned with the responsibilities and skills that is
needed for corporate accountant. An applicant have good knowledge to interpretation of the
financial statement and reports. Companies make the records of the business transactions from
different location so it is primary for corporate accountant to have adequate skill to translate the
financial statements and reports of foreign operations.
8. Additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from MPA unit
HI5020Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement.
MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting, comprises of the certain topic and section that is
needed for the post of accountant. Here are some basic attributes represented as follows:
Customer orientation service – It is a attributes that is required in the corporate
accountant. This service is all about handling the clients with their financial issues and problems.
This is the additional attributes to the accountant to deal the practical situation and aspects. It
may built a strong understanding between Clint and the organisation. In the adverse situation, it
is difficult to increasing number of clients by an accountant.
Knowledge of accounting software - In this new era of tech based system, accountant
must have the sound knowledge of the accounting software to handle the practical situation in
the organisation. In the lack of detailed information and data, with applying the accounting
software by accountant, it may take more time to provide the information related to accounts. In
addition to, the companies can implement of innovative model of technology that is based on
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these accounting software which may gain tech skill to the accountant (Said Mokhtar and
Mellett,2013).
So all these are the additional skill on the topics of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate
accounting, states the interrelationship on roles and skills required for post of corporate
accountant based on published advertisement.
9. Critically evaluation of the skills, experience and attributes that needed to become a corporate
accountant. As well as role of topics of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting to
become a corporate accountant.
The role of the accountant is very important in relevant to the corporates. So it required
to have some extreme experience, skills and attributes to be a legal accountant. Some of the
extra skills, attributes and experience are mentioned as follows:
Skill:
Integrity is the additional skill that is required in the corporate accountant. It is related
with compile the data of overall organisation to present the financial statement and reports. team
work ability connected to the operate and handle all employees as a team. So they can perform
better and it can be lead to higher accuracy in projects.
Experience:
This feature is must for the post of corporate accountant as these candidates know the a
firm situation well and perform the activity in a effective manner. But it must have the minimum
experience of 0 to 5 years for the particular post.
Attributes:
The personal attributes emphasizing on the accuracy of the project and task. This is a
kind of dimension which is related to completing tasks with full of accuracy with no error.
Attention to detail attributes focused to participating the detail business records and transaction
as well as the financial statements to develop a good understand.
Role of topics of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting to be a corporate accountant:
In relevance with the MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting, there are different section
covered in the report that help in the become a good accountant. The different job roles as
accounting for assets, liabilities, group structures and taxation etc. All the job roles help to a
individual in overall development of the accountant.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that corporate accounting is necessary section in
the business that provides the detail and well defined data to the management. This report specify
the job role of the corporates accountant and responsibilities in the business. In addition to the
key skill, attributes and qualification for the post of the accountant in job advertisement. This
report is also summarised the concept of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate accounting and skills
required in job advertisement for different companies.
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