Senior Accountant - Accounting Services

Job Description

• Bring your passion and feel the energy 
• Fixed term contract role of 24 months
• Hybrid ways of working - 3 days work from office
• Location - Sydney / Melbourne / Adelaide

The Senior accountant plays a critical role in the accuracy and completeness of the general ledger for the Group’s retail businesses. This includes ensuring financial integrity and acting as the bridge between Endeavour’s onshore Business Units and the offshore team. This ensures the accurate and timely delivery of core Record to Report activities.

This role is integral to enabling the transition and standing up of Retail accounting processes in the offshore team and jointly enabling a successful implementation of a new SAP ERP. Long term, the senior accountant is responsible for providing direction and oversight of the offshore accounting team, and embraces opportunities to improve processes and and transition to a centralised accounting team for the Group.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

Stakeholder Management

• Drive Business Partnerships: Cultivate strong business partnerships with specific Retail Business Unit teams, such as FP&A, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, eCommerce Finance and non finance teams to continuously refine management reporting frameworks, ensuring results are actionable and reflect business drivers.

• Performance Mentoring: Coach and build capability across offshore team to build both technical and Endeavour business acumen

Financial Reporting & Month-End

• Financial Close: Ensure and enable financial integrity and timely delivery and modeling a culture of rigorous quality assurance. Ensuring all journals, reconciliations, and reporting packages are completed to a high standard.

• Reporting Governance: Maintain oversight of group reporting standards, including OneStream submission integrity and the strategic consolidation of P&L and balance sheet data.

• Technical Expertise for Complex Accounting: Serve as the accounting subject matter expert for specific complex retail activities, resolving high-impact technical accounting challenges and escalating as required.

System and Process Delivery, Improvement & Projects

• ERP System Delivery: Completion of new ERP testing, playing a key role with management of defects and required post go-live system enhancements

• Process Excellence: Driving, setting and delivering pre and post go-live ERP processes

• Transition Enablement: Onboarding, training and transition of knowledge and processes to new offshore processing team

• Business initiatives: Represent Business Services to ensure successful implementation of business initiatives

• System Optimisation: Leverage systems to drive efficiencies, automating manual journals and improving the integrity of financial and operating results.

• Process Simplification: Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes and implement best-practice standardisation.

Balance Sheet, Audit & Compliance

• Reconciliations Excellence: Performing secondary review for select balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring robust controls, timely risk and issue identification and resolution, and engagement with business units

• Analytical Insight: Drive analytical reviews across select key reconciliations to extract actionable financial insights.

• Complex Reconciliations: Guide and ensure effectiveness of balance sheet reconciliations for select complex and high risk balances

• Audit & Reporting periods: Seamless half-year and full-year deliverables and coordination and delivery of external auditor requests and requirements.

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you: 

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Shared Services, or Global Business Services, preferably with some experience with retail related accounting activities

• Experience with an offshore or outsourced shared service delivery model is highly desirable.

• Experience in process optimisation, leveraging technology, data and best practice insights

• Strong business partnering and influencing skills, with an ability to anticipate and proactively prepare for business queries and requirements.

• Experience in SAP S/4 HANA, Great Plains or Dynamics 365

• Accounting professional qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, CIMA)

• Experience in successful Finance technology programs (including SAP ERP implementations) is highly desirable

• Experience with change management and embedding new capabilities

Measuring success

• Identifying and management of selected pre and post SAP go-live testing and performance metrics

• Ongoing performance and service levels

• Progressive simplification, standardisation and optimisation of processes

• Outcomes of external and internal audit and risk reviews

• Business and stakeholder engagement and satisfaction

The benefits are good too! 

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

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