Financial Accountant

What you'll do

Financial Accountant

What we can do for you

At Specsavers, we know that to reach your full potential you need to work somewhere that will bring out your best. We pride ourselves on offering a workplace with a supportive, driven, flexible and inclusive culture.

In 2024, we were proudly recognised as one of Australia’s Best Places to Work for the second consecutive year and ranked 16th on Fortune’s list of the World’s 25 Best Workplaces.

Here’s a taste of just some of our perks:

• Quarterly bonus scheme
• Two free pairs of glasses each year
• On-site free parking
• Birthday, Volunteer, Professional Development and Paid Parental Leave
• Health & Wellbeing programs
• Fully funded social club – provides a wide range of activities throughout the year

So, if you like the sound of working for a company that’s dedicated to improving the lives of both their people and customers – we think you’d look good at Specsavers. 

The Role & Team

We’re looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Financial Accountant to join our team on a 12-month fixed term contract. Reporting directly to the Financial Reporting Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in providing commercially focused financial accounting support to our support office operations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the ANZ investment register – accurately recording monthly movements, posting journals and preparing reconciliations
• Managing the ANZ Loan portfolio – reconciling monthly movements, preparing reports, journals and ensuring timely responses to stakeholder queries
• Partnering with Audiology, Optical, and Recruitment teams to ensure accurate financial tracking and reporting
• Supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, and year-end audit processes

 We embrace a hybrid work approach to ensure a great work-life balance. When you’re not working remotely, you’ll be based at our Support Office in Port Melbourne, ready to make things happen!

The skills we are looking for:

• CA/CPA qualified with demonstrated experience within a financial/management accounting role
• Strong communication skills and effective stakeholder management
• Intermediate excel skills 
• High attention to detail
• Experienced in managing high-volume financial transactions and reconciliations with accuracy and efficiency, ensuring timely reporting and compliance

About Us

Specsavers are rated the market leader for eye tests, the retailer of choice for contact lenses and one of the fastest growing hearing providers in Australia and New Zealand. We are on a continual mission to transform eye and hearing health by eliminating preventable vision loss and blindness, including Glaucoma and Diabetes, through improved prevention and early detection, as well as providing accessible and affordable hearing care.

At Specsavers we believe a diverse, inclusive, and flexible culture enables our people to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. When it comes to flexibility, we understand that one size doesn’t fit all. Our flexible working at Specsavers enables us to work in ways that support our lifestyle to help us balance our career with the other important things in life.

Creating a great place to work for our people is pinnacle to us and along with our Behaviours is at the core of everything we do. We like to think it’s a fun and positive place to work – why not have a look for yourself https://join.specsavers.com/au/department/support-office/

Applicants for the role are required to have current working rights as per, relevant government legislation.