Salary: $152,273.00 - $152,273.00

Job Type: Ongoing

Location: Canberra

Job Category: Accounting & Finance

About Icon Water

Icon Water is an iconic Canberra business with a history of providing essential services to Canberra for over 100 years.

We are the ACT’s supplier of essential water and wastewater services and have proudly served our community for over 100 years – sourcing, treating and supplying water, and managing Canberra’s wastewater network. Our work is essential to the health, prosperity and liveability of the region, and we are committed to environmental, social and financial sustainability in everything we do.

Icon Water is a purpose driven organisation where everyone contributes to our core business, ensuring high quality drinking water and sustainable wastewater treatment. Icon Water’s culture is driven by our values of care, connection, community and courage. These are values we see in action every day as we challenge ourselves to meet the expectations of our community.

Icon Water is an Equal Opportunity Employer which values diversity and inclusion. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and all ages. We also have a strong focus on gender balance within the organisation and encourage women to apply.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We're looking for a commercially minded Financial Planning & Analysis, Senior Analyst (FP&A;) to play a pivotal role in Icon Water's budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance management processes. You'll support the development, consolidation, and management of key planning activities while providing trusted financial business partnering to assigned corporate portfolios.

In this role, you'll prepare consolidated business performance reporting and deliver meaningful insights and commentary to support Executive, Board, and external stakeholder decision-making. Partnering closely with operational, commercial, and executive leaders, you'll translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights that drive organisational performance.





With a strong focus on financial planning, reporting, analysis, and continuous improvement, you'll contribute to the ongoing enhancement of financial planning and performance management frameworks. This includes strengthening benefits realisation practices and improving the Plan-to-Perform process to drive consistency, efficiency, and value across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the development and maintenance of the forecasting and budgeting system, including master data maintenance, key parameters and ensure accuracy and integration with the Finance system.
- Lead the preparation, maintenance and management of the budgeting and forecasting calendar.
- Support the development of Icon Water’s top-down and bottom-up budgets, and long-term plans forecasts across the entire financial portfolio (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and capital), with internal and external stakeholder groups.
- Develop and maintain integrated financial models to assess the long-term impact of operating expenditure, capital investment, demand forecasts and funding assumptions, supporting sustainable business performance and strategic decision making.
- Provide financial modelling, scenario analysis and strategic insights to support organisational planning, investment prioritisation and long-term financial sustainability.
- Support driving continuous improvement across the Plan to Perform end-to-end process.
- Review consolidated business performance report and provide insights, and commentary to support data-driven Executive and Board decisions.
- Review submission of financial performance reports to the ACT Government and other external agencies.




- Support senior decision makers in your assigned portfolios in understanding financial performance, budget impacts and commercial outcomes
- Translate complex financial information into explicit insights and recommendations for non-financial stakeholders.
- Conduct detailed financial and commercial analysis to support business cases, investment decisions and strategic initiatives.
- Evaluate financial viability, risks, benefits and value-for-money outcomes of proposed projects and programs.

What You Bring

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Accounting or Finance (or similar).
- Member of CPA or CAANZ.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in group FP&A; or management accounting within a commercial environment.

- Sound knowledge of general accounting principles and comprehensive budgeting and forecasting experience.
- Experience in business performance reporting and Board report writing.
- Extensive experience in the use of a large Financial Information Management systems, and Microsoft applications, including Word and Excel.

WHY JOIN ICON WATER

Benefits

Join Icon Water and make a meaningful difference to the Canberra community while building a rewarding career with an organisation that values its people.

Benefits include

- Competitive salary and employment conditions.
- 15% employer superannuation contribution.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Career growth opportunities.
- Health and wellbeing initiatives such as free gym membership and Colleague Support Network.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Supportive and inclusive workplace culture.
- Opportunities to contribute to essential services for the Canberra community.

To find out more about the role you can view the detailed Position Description on the Icon Water Careers Portal . You can also contact [email protected] via email for further information. How to Apply: If you're ready to join the team at Icon Water and help shape the future of Canberra's water network, click Apply Now and submit your CV and a Cover Letter highlighting your skills, experience, and suitability for the role.

Applications close Friday 2nd October.

📌 Financial Planning & Analysis, Senior Analyst (Canberra)
🏢 Icon Water
📍 Canberra