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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!
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 (Accounting Services) 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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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