Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Shape the Future with Us!
At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.
Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The Senior Accountant is responsible for leading core financial accounting and reporting activities, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial information to support business performance and decision‑making. This role drives significant organizational impact by strengthening financial controls, improving finance processes, and partnering with key stakeholders to deliver insights, support audits, and ensure regulatory and statutory compliance. This position reports to the Financial Controller and is part of the Finance team located in Sydney and will be an on-site role.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Led the month-end close process to ensure timely and accurate reporting, including in-depth analysis of financial performance and key variances, while overseeing balance sheet reconciliations to maintain data integrity and promptly resolve discrepancies.
- Directed statutory and management reporting across monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles, delivering insights to support business decision-making, and ensured full compliance with SOX requirements by proactively identifying and mitigating control risks.
- Coordinated internal and external audits as the primary point of contact, ensuring adherence to regulatory and corporate requirements, while overseeing local tax compliance (BAS, FBT, payroll tax, and workers’ compensation) and collaborating with advisors on corporate income tax matters.
- Managed payroll accounting, including review and approval of payroll journals and reconciliations, and partnered with cross-functional stakeholders and offshore outsourcing teams to support financial planning, reporting, and operational initiatives.
- Championed continuous improvement initiatives across finance processes, including supporting the SAP HANA transition, strengthening SOPs, enhancing internal control frameworks, and delivering other ad hoc finance projects as required.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Tertiary qualified in Accounting, CPA/CA qualified or partially qualified, with 8+ years’ proven experience in a finance function and strong exposure to General Ledger operations, including hands-on AP and AR experience.
- Experienced in ERP and financial systems, with advanced computer literacy, particularly strong Excel skills, supporting accurate reporting, analysis, and efficient financial processes.
- Highly detail-oriented and well-organised, demonstrating excellent time management skills, a proactive approach to identifying non-compliance issues, and a consistently high standard of professional ethics and integrity.
- Strong communicator and collaborative team player, with excellent interpersonal skills, able to work effectively across functions while maintaining a customer-focused mindset.
- Self-motivated and improvement-driven professional, combining technical accounting expertise with accountability, reliability, and a commitment to supporting business outcomes.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Understanding of the medical device industry, including its regulatory, commercial, and operational environment.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) with hands-on SAP experience, supporting efficient financial processing and reporting.
Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
