Financial Accountant

Looking to take the next step in your finance career? Join Team Global Express as a Financial Accountant and play a key role in supporting our freight and logistics operations across Australia.

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career accountant with 2-3 years' experience who enjoys working with data, building relationships with stakeholders, and partnering with the business to drive financial outcomes. You'll join a supportive finance team where you'll gain exposure to financial reporting, month-end processes, business partnering, and FP&A activities, providing a strong foundation for future career growth.

About The Role

Reporting to the Manager, Accounting & Controls, you'll work closely with both Finance and Operations teams to support financial reporting, governance, and business performance across Team Global Express. This role offers broad exposure across the business, making it an ideal stepping stone for someone looking to build their commercial finance and business partnering experience.

You’ll gain valuable insight into Australia's freight and logistics industry while developing your technical accounting and stakeholder management capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Prepare and collate financial data to support month-end reporting and journal processing.
• Work with offshore finance teams to ensure journals are accurately posted and reconciled.
• Partner with operational leaders to ensure invoices, accruals, and financial transactions are processed accurately and on time.
• Assist with financial reporting, analysis, and commentary for business stakeholders.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and FP&A activities.
• Help maintain strong financial controls and governance processes.
• Monitor balance sheet reconciliations and assist with month-end close activities.
• Support ad hoc financial analysis and reporting requests.
• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, and Shared Services teams.

What You’ll Bring

• 2-3 years' experience in accounting, financial analysis, or a similar finance role.
• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Commerce, or a related discipline.
• Progress towards or completion of CA or CPA qualifications is highly regarded.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Confidence working with large volumes of financial data.
• Knowledge of balance sheets
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across a diverse business.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with large ERP systems - nice to have
• Previous experience in freight, logistics, transport, or a high-volume operational environment will be highly regarded.
• A proactive approach and willingness to get into the detail when needed.

About Team Global Express

Team Global Express (TGE) is an Australian-owned transport and logistics business delivering to Australia and New Zealand. We’re not only transforming our operations but striving towards changing the logistics industry and becoming an Environmental, Social, and Governance leader by 2030. To learn more about our story, visit https://teamglobalexp.com/.

Why TGE

We care about our customers, our people, and our planet. We’re always innovating and improving our services. We are driven by passion and purpose, and we never stop.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary above industry standards
• Upskilling, training, mentoring and more to support your career development journey
• Fun and practical employee perks and discounts
• Flexible work, including work from home
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• Peer recognition awards acknowledge when you go above and beyond.

An inclusive workplace, works for everyone

We celebrate difference. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace that gives everyone the chance to contribute to a bigger and brighter future with us. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and invite applicants of all ages, cultural backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, people living with disabilities, neurodiverse individuals and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to apply.

Team Global Express acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as First Peoples of Australia and the Māori, as tangata whenua and Treaty of Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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