Group Accountant

Milne AgriGroup was established in 1910 and is a West Australian, family owned Company passionate about our products and a leader in the free-range, fresh produce industry.

Our multi award-winning Meat Division is focused on provenance and the production of exceptional quality and innovative products that meet consumers’ changing needs and expectations. Our brands include Mt Barker Free Range Chicken and Plantagenet Free Range Pork, with our distribution network extending across Australasia.

Our Meat Division is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Group Accountant to join our finance team.

Why Join Us?

Prime Location: working in Rockingham with access to staff parking and public transport.

Exclusive benefits: enjoy staff discounts on a range of our products available in our Staff shop.

Fuel up at work: let our in-house Barista brighten up your day with café quality coffee in our staff canteen.

Growth and flexibility: we value work/life balance and offer flexible working hours where possible.

The Role

The Group Accountant is a critical role responsible for the end-to-end financial close and reporting processes for various entities. The role reports to the Meat Division CFO and manages multi-currency processing, trade finance reconciliation, and the preparation of monthly Profit & Loss and overspend reporting. You will also own the weekly sales, rebate and Production Management Meeting (PMM) reporting cycles, coordinate accounts payable workflows and provide support across fixed assets, balance sheets, and GST/FBT compliance.

Duties will include:

• Managing the end-to-end monthly financial close for various entities
• Prepare monthly P&L spreadsheets, cost centre reporting, and distribute overspend reports to management
• Perform multi-currency processing (USD, NZD, AED) and trade finance reconciliation
• Own weekly sales reporting, rebate processing (including major supermarket chains), and Production Management Meeting (PMM) presentation updates
• Coordinate accounts payable invoice coding via Traild (Accounts Payable software) across multiple cost centres
• Ensure GST and FBT compliance across all entities
• Collaborate with team members on farm, manufacturing and inventory reporting
• Provide ad-hoc financial support including fixed asset management, audit compliance and balance sheet reconciliations

What We Need from You

• Minimum 5 years work experience, preferably within the FMCG, manufacturing or similar industrial sector, and at the same level of seniority
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Demonstrated experience with large ERP systems (Epicor preferred but not essential)
• Strong understanding of retail trade promotions, rebate accounting, manufacturing, and agribusiness cost structures
• Proven ability to manage high-volume data and meet strict working deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail and strong cross-functional communication skills within the leadership team, functional managers and peers
• A finance practitioner with strong entrepreneurial/commercial acumen
• Dynamic professional who would welcome change in the organisation

If this role sounds like a match for you, upload a copy of your CV together with a short cover letter describing why this role interests you and how your experience is relevant.

Use the Apply Now button to submit your application/interest prior 24 July.

Joining Us

As a people-first, inclusive company, our team is at the core of everything we do. We care about creating a workplace where staff feel respectedand valued. We are committed to providing equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientationor life stage.

Our goal is to build and maintain a gender equitable team and equally we aim to make choices that support the inclusivity present in our diverse workplace culture. We prioritise choices and behaviours that create a safe and respectful team and workplace. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, gender identities and sexual orientation.

Where we are able, we prioritise making adjustments to our workplace so that people of all abilities can work and feel welcomed to work at our sites.