Senior Financial Accountant | Major Infrastructure Project | 6 months (temporary)

Location: Redfern

Hybrid: 2-3 days WFH

A rare opportunity has become available for a Senior Financial Accountant to join a high-performing finance team supporting the delivery of a major infrastructure project. Working within a complex and fast-paced environment, you will play a key role in financial control, project costing, reporting and process improvement while partnering closely with finance, commercial and operational stakeholders.

This position is ideal for a recently qualified CA/CPA professional, someone coming from a Big 4/Mid-Tier audit background with 2–3 years of industry experience, or an accountant looking to further develop their career within a large-scale infrastructure or project-based environment.

The Opportunity

Reporting to senior finance leadership, you will be responsible for supporting month-end reporting, reconciliations, project cost allocations, recoveries and financial analysis across a complex joint venture structure.

Beyond the core accounting responsibilities, this business is actively investing in technology, automation and finance transformation. As such, we're keen to speak with candidates who have a genuine interest in AI, automation and process improvement, and who can demonstrate how they have used tools such as Power Query, Power BI, Power Automate, Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Excel automation/macros or similar technologies to improve finance processes and reporting outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Support month-end close activities including journals, accruals, reconciliations and financial control processes.
- Prepare and maintain project cost allocation and recovery models across labour, plant, equipment and fleet costs.
- Reconcile financial, operational and project data sources to ensure reporting accuracy and integrity.
- Assist with management reporting,



variance analysis, audit requests and compliance requirements.
- Partner with finance, commercial, operations and systems teams to resolve costing, coding and reporting issues.
- Maintain and enhance financial models, templates, dashboards and recurring reporting processes.
- Identify opportunities to streamline, automate and improve finance workflows.
- Support ongoing systems and process transformation initiatives, including the migration from Jobpac to SAP S/4HANA.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement through the practical use of analytics, automation and AI tools.

About You

- CA or CPA qualified (or nearing completion).
- Experience gained within audit, financial accounting, management accounting, project finance or commercial finance environments.
- Strong understanding of month-end reporting, reconciliations, accruals, financial controls and working paper preparation.
- Advanced Excel capability with confidence working across large and complex data sets.
- Exposure to project accounting, job costing, infrastructure, construction or engineering environments will be highly regarded.
- Demonstrated interest and examples within process improvement, analytics, AI or finance automation.
- Understanding of governance, controls, data security and responsible AI usage within a finance function.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage competing priorities and reporting deadlines.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

What's in It for You?

- Join a major infrastructure program with solid long-term project visibility.
- Work in a collaborative and high-performing finance team.
- Exposure to complex joint venture and project accounting environments.
- Opportunity to contribute to finance transformation, automation and AI initiatives.
- Convenient Redfern location with flexible working arrangements (2-3 days WFH)

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📌 Senior Financial Accountant (New South Wales)
🏢 People2People
📍 New South Wales