Senior Financial Accountant - Sustainability

Company Description

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

Job Description

• Work with a supportive team
• Love what you do and leave your mark
• A pivotal role within the Finance - Sustainability function

Senior Financial Accountant - Sustainability

To implement various processes and process improvements in relation to Endeavour’s reporting of energy costs, enabling accurate and complete reporting of climate change requirements under AASB S2

Sounds good? Read on.

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

• Obtain an understanding of Endeavour’s financial accounting and reporting processes and people, and work closely with the Sustainability team to understand and leverage current sustainability reporting processes
• Create/change general ledger accounts across multiple ERPs and Consolidation system to capture energy costs
• Develop and issue an accounting policy with detailed process instructions on revised GL postings and monitor compliance with the policy to ensure all energy related transactions are posted to these accounts in a timely and accurate manner
• Construct an organised data base of supporting invoices and other documentation for all energy expense line items, inclusive of necessary data to enable Tonnes of CO2 emissions reporting
• Drive process change to appropriately capture expected energy costs from accrual accounting
• Build a monthly analytical review process supporting balances of energy costs at each month end, ensuring accuracy of source information and commentaries explaining underlying variance drivers
• Strong follow up and communications where exceptions arise
• Establish processes to a “reasonable assurance” standard of quality
• Drives performance and outcomes 
  

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you: 

• 7 years of financial accounting or external audit experience preferably in a Big 4 firm or large ASX-listed entity
• CA or CPA qualified
• Strong debit/credit and account reconciliations skills
• Good technical accounting skills including familiarity with Australian Accounting Standards and upcoming Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards.
• Strong stakeholder management, project management and partnering capability
• Attention to detail, with the ability to see the bigger picture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Strong self starter
• Excellent Spreadsheet, Word doc skills and working with general ledger packages (SAP, Microsoft 365/Dynamics and others)
• Exposure to sustainability and/or other non-financial metric reporting systems and processes

Additional Information

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days 
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have 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.

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.

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.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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