Mutual Marketplace
Corporate Accountant
Permanent · Full-time · Brisbane, QLD
The opportunity
This is a rare opportunity to join our small but mighty
finance team in a role with genuine breadth, real ownership, and the chance to
make your mark.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role sits as a true 2IC, you’ll be the go-to person when the Finance Manager is on leave, and a trusted point of contact for senior leadership across the business.
If you’re a CPA or CA who thrives on variety, takes pride in getting the details right, and wants to be more than just a cog in the machine, this one’s worth a read.
About Mutual Marketplace
Mutual Marketplace Pty Ltd is a customer focused organisation providing shared services that make business simple and unlock value for the Mutual Banking and adjacent sectors across Australia.
Jointly owned by People First Bank and Great Southern Bank, we support the mutual banking sector with practical, high quality shared services that drive sustainability.
We put customers at the centre of everything we do and continually innovate, improve and simplify how shared services are delivered.
Central to all that we do are our values of Kindness, Ambition, Responsibility and Efficiency.
About the role
As Corporate Accountant, you will take end-to-end ownership of our accounting function – from month-end and year-end close, to statutory compliance, financial reporting, and supporting the wider business with timely, accurate information.
As 2IC to the Finance Manager, you’ll step up confidently during periods of leave, managing priorities and maintaining clear communication with the executive team.
Your core responsibilities will include:
- Owning the month-end and year-end close processes, including journal preparation,
review, and general ledger reconciliations
- Reviewing AP processing outputs for GST compliance, overseeing supplier Masterfile
setups, and reviewing weekly and monthly payment runs with strong awareness of controls and fraud risk
- Preparing Financial Statements, FBT returns, and biannual Payment Times Reporting; reviewing BAS returns prepared by the Assistant Accountant
- Liaising with external auditors and the tax team on the annual income tax return
- Reviewing fortnightly payroll and end-of-month payroll requirements
- Preparing and lodging annual WorkCover estimates and true-ups
- Supporting annual budgets, forecasting, and ad-hoc financial projects
- Maintaining and building Analytics and KPI dashboards across savings, procurement
spend, management fees, and new business income
- Preparing and distributing monthly and quarterly customer reporting packs and
executive reports
- Documenting and reconciling customer savings generated by Mutual Marketplace
- Liaising with our external ERP consultant on system-related tickets
- Providing mentoring and day-to-day support to the broader finance team
What we’re looking for
CPA or CA qualification is mandatory. Beyond that, we’re looking for:
- A minimum of five years of commercial accounting experience
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, GST and FBT, with hands-on experience
preparing statutory returns and financial statements
- Experience reviewing payment runs at scale – including approval workflows, cutoffs,
urgency decisions, and fraud and control awareness
- A solid understanding of segregation of duties and audit trail integrity
- Advanced Excel skills and the ability to manage your own workload and deadlines
without close supervision
- Experience with TechOne Financials or Coupa Expense Management (highly regarded but
not essential)
Beyond the technical, we want someone who communicates promptly and clearly, meets their deadlines, and flags issues early. You take ownership of outcomes – not just tasks – and have the drive to identify and implement improvements without being asked.
You’re equally comfortable working independently and collaborating as part of a small team, and you’re professional and approachable when engaging with senior stakeholders.
Why join us
This is a broad, end-to-end role with genuine ownership – not a narrow function buried in a large team. You’ll have direct visibility of the business, regular engagement with senior leadership, and the scope to shape how finance operates at Mutual Marketplace. We’re a collaborative, supportive
team that takes our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.
This is a permanent, full-time position based in Brisbane.
Applications will be reviewed from 28 May. To apply, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and what draws you to this role.
Application Process
Apply with your resume and a brief covering letter outlining your experience and interest in the role.
Please note – you may be invited to complete a short video interview as part of the screening process, followed by a face-to-face interview with the hiring team
Applicants must have the right to work in Australia. Background screening will be required and referees will be sought following the interview process.
For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact Human Resources at mmhr@mmpl.com.au.
Mutual Marketplace is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds.
Privacy Statement
Mutual Marketplace collects the personal information you provide in your application, and via the application process, in order to assess your application. During the application process, we are also likely to collect personal information about you from third parties, such as referees when they provide references, academic institutions or training, certification providers, providers of licence and background-checking services, recruiters, and other service providers who assist in the process, and other publicly available sources such as social media platforms. If you choose not to provide us with the personal information requested, we may be unable to process your application.
We disclose your personal information to our workers who assist us in operating our business, third parties to whom you have agreed we may disclose your information, or as otherwise required or authorised by law. We use third-party service providers to operate our business and assess your application, and those third-party service providers may have access to your personal information as a result of our use of their services. Some of those service providers are located overseas, such as LinkedIn and Microsoft located in the United States of America. We take reasonable steps to ensure these third parties have appropriate security for your personal information, and where possible, we require that personal information be held on servers located in Australia.
More detailed information about how you can access and request correction of personal information we hold about you, and how you can make a complaint about a breach of privacy, can be found in our privacy policy, available on Mutual Marketplace’s website.
