Company Description: Waterform is a specialist in solving complex industrial water challenges driven by growth, compliance, and sustainability pressures.
Role Description: The Financial Controller is a full time, office based or hybrid role preferably based in Bendigo office, responsible for overseeing all core accounting and financial management activities.
The primary purpose of this role is to manage the financial and accounting function to ensure provision of accurate and timely financial reports and forecasts. These are intended to support tracking and forecasting of Waterform Group financial performance from an individual project level through to an overall company level view.
Major Responsibilities:
- Experience with working in Netsuite with intimate knowledge of project, payroll, financial, inventory modules. Need to be proficient and confident with using Netsuite
- Experience with Full Clarity project plug-in module for Netsuite is preferred
- Coordinate the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts, and report variances.
- Manage all accounting operations, including Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, and Revenue Recognition.
- Undertake regular reforecasting in conjunction with Waterform Management Team
- Monitor ongoing financial performance and liaise with managers in order to understand reasons for any budget variances and ensure appropriate accounting treatments
- Acts as an approver for payments as required in line with delegations
- Manage the end of month close out procedures to ensure timely reports
- Keep project costs up to date on a weekly and monthly basis
- Produce project cost reports and forecasts and submit to Project Manager / Finance Manager
- Analyse cost reports and advise on strategies for improvements
- Prepare final cost report at completion of projects for team review
- Review historical data to provide benchmarking on hours worked in engineering, project management, site installation per project to enable improved estimates in future projects
- Assist with continuously improving systems and processes including templates in use
- Work with finance team members to ensure daily bank reconciliations are completed
- Work with finance team members to ensure daily credit card reconciliations are completed
- Maintain depreciation schedules including for rental equipment in accordance with ATO/legislative requirements
- Co-ordinate submission of BAS as required