Senior Accountant - Asset Management (1yr FTC)

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

• 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.

Sound good? Read on.

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

Capital Accounting Framework & Process Stand-up

• 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.

Offshore Transition, Training & Knowledge Transfer

• 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 Testing Program & Variance Investigation

• 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 Reporting & Month-End

• 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.

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

• 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

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.

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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