Senior Accountant - Asset Management (1yr FTC)

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 12 months

Location - Sydney/ Melbourne/ Adelaide

The Senior Accountant (Asset Management) plays a critical role in the accuracy and completeness of the capital related 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 both standing up of capital related accounting processes, ensuring rigorous SAP S/4HANA testing execution, and managing the end-to-end knowledge transfer and process transition to our offshore delivery team. This role is also responsible for ensuring the transition of capital assets from Great Plains to SAP.

Process Excellence - Map and stand up robust financial processes for capital purchases and asset accounting within the new ERP environment. Draft, review, and finalise standard operating procedures (SOPs) and control frameworks to guide offshore operations

Data Migration - Lead the complex asset and capital data migration from Great Plains into SAP S/4HANA, ensuring data integrity and ledger matching

Defect Mitigation - Design and deploy manageable, short-term workarounds at go-live to handle functional defects while engineering robust, long-term systematic fixes.

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

Coach and Build Capability - Act as the core onshore mentor, executing structured knowledge transfer and comprehensive training for the Bangalore team members

Oversight - Oversee the transition from knowledge transfer into guided production into go live, establishing quality control (QC) checks and independent review steps.

ERP System Delivery - Drive the SAP S/4HANA user acceptance testing (UAT) script development and execution program

Defects Resolution - Proactively analyse, investigate, and rectify financial data variances, ensuring all software and mapping defects are captured prior to go-live

Data Validation - Leverage standard data-lake querying tools (such as SQL within GCP) to extract, analyze, and validate complex reporting pipelines

Financial Close: Ensure and set up process transition to 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: Ensuring process and system is set up to enable OneStream submission integrity and the strategic consolidation of P&L and balance sheet data.

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

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

Completion of the UAT lifecycle and identifying and management of selected pre and post SAP go-live testing and performance metrics

Delivery of SOPs and control governance which have simple, standardised and optimised processes

Unmitigated workarounds tracking into day-1 go live

Successful data migration from Great Plains asset books into SAP

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 .

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