Apply: Senior Project Accountant - IT Transformation Program

Reference: BH-172598-1
Our client is a leading consumer focused financial services group with superb culture and a true people focus. They have won numerous awards over recent years and are an employer of choice. They currently have an exciting opportunity of a project accountant to join their high performance finance team to focus on finance partnering to a major IT Transformation program currently underway.

Reporting into the Senior Manager, Decision Support the role will focus on the following key areas:

  • Produce accurate and timely reporting of project expenses including variance analysis to budgets/forecast.
  • Ensure that invoices and resourcing are allocated correctly facilitated through transaction level reviews.
  • Design and establish automated reporting which is useful for stakeholders.
  • Contribute to wider group reporting including commentary and analysis.
  • Apply appropriate accounting treatment of all project costs.
  • Tracking of licences, maintenance and various other ongoing costs.
  • Process and review IT recharges to the transformation program and other projects
  • Be the finance contact and go to person for all financial support of the transformation program
  • Manage, design and provide financial tools, templates and schedules
  • Challenge costs and gain an understanding of underlying cost drivers
  • Provide a commercial lens across the program to ensure efficient use of investment is achieved
  • Develop a strong stakeholder relationship which is seen as being a trusted financial advisor.
This is a great opportunity for a qualified CA/CPA Financial analyst with exposure to project accounting or technology finance.  The role will initially be a 12 month contract but the program is due to run for a number of years so the role will likely extend until 2025

Required skills and experience:
  • CA/CPA Qualified
  • Experience in projects, transformation programs
  • Background in management reporting
  • Extensive computer skills in both hardware and software – e.g. Microsoft Excel, Word and Tm1
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate with senior stakeholder
  • Self-motivation with a high level of initiative
  • Demonstrated commitment to improve systems and processes
  • Ability to prioritise workload and adhere to deadlines
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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