Cost Accountant

Sharp & Carter; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 166,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp and Carter is seeking a Senior Finance professional to join on a short-term basis to resolve post-ERP go-live issues. The role focuses on root-cause analysis of account balances, data validation, and direct collaboration with global sites and Manila team to drive fixes to resolution.

You will consolidate standard cost data from ~120 sites and manage data uploads for ERP validation, while tracking progress across workstreams and maintaining detailed documentation.

Qualifications

• Senior finance or accounting professional with hands-on ERP and systems experience.
• Strong inventory and cost accounting background.
• Detail-driven with large datasets and reconciliations (advanced Excel).
• Confident coordinator across time zones and offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Investigate account balance and calculation issues in the new ERP and trace them to root cause.
• Collaborate with finance, operations and ERP stakeholders, including Manila team, to resolve issues.
• Collect, validate and consolidate standard cost data from ~120 sites globally (10,000+ SKUs).
• Lead calls with site contacts to explain data requirements and timelines, and close gaps.
• Prepare clean, structured upload files for the ERP and support validation and reconciliation.
• Track progress across sites and workstreams, flag risks and data quality issues early.
• Document assumptions, findings and adjustments for business continuity.

Skills

ERP systems experience

Advanced Excel

Cost accounting

Inventory accounting

Data analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Cross-time zone collaboration

Job description

The Company

Our client is a US multinational organisation that is a prominent leader within the Services sector. They are seeking a product costing/management accountant to join their teamimmediately for a 2 - 3 months to assist following a system go-live.

About the opportunity

Our client has recently gone live with a new ERP and is working through post-implementation issues, including account balances not calculating correctly. They need an experienced finance professional to step in short-term, get into the detail, and drive the fixes through to resolution.

The role

• Investigate account balance and calculation issues in the new ERP and trace them back to root cause
• Work with finance, operations and ERP project stakeholders, and the team in Manila, to resolve issues
• Collect, validate and consolidate standard cost data from approximately 120 manufacturing sites globally, covering 10,000+ SKUs
• Lead calls with site contacts to explain data requirements and timelines, and follow up persistently to close gaps and discrepancies
• Prepare clean, structured upload files for the ERP and support validation and reconcilation
• Track progress across sites and workstreams, and flag risks, delays and data quality issues early
• Document assumptions, findings and adjustments so the business is on solid footing when you finish

About you

• Senior finance or accounting professional with hands-on ERP and systems experience
• Strong inventory and cost accounting background
• Detail-driven, comfortable with large datasets and reconciliations (advanced Excel)
• Confident coordinator who can influence without authority across time zones and an offshore team
• Persistent and execution-focused, happy to chase down information across a large organisation
• Manufacturing, supply chain or ERP data migration exposure highly regarded
• Available at short notice and comfortable with a fixed-term engagement

Additional information

• Start ASAP | 2 - 3 month temo
• South-East Melbourne location
• Iconic multinational organisation