Finance Coordinator

Service Stream; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work from Williamstown

Career development opportunities

Discounts program

Job summary

Service Stream is expanding its Transport division in Victoria, with a newly created contract-focused finance role based in Williamstown. You will manage purchasing, invoicing, and cost control for ITS maintenance projects, delivering timely reports and forecasts to contract leaders.

Ideal candidates will have project finance or contract accounting experience within infrastructure or maintenance services, strong ERP skills, and the ability to communicate financial information clearly to field

Qualifications

• Qualifications in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration, or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong Excel and ERP capabilities, preferably including Jobpac, SAP or comparable systems.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to operational and field-based stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Transactions and controls – processing and reconciling purchase orders, invoices, subcontractor claims and financial transactions, ensuring compliance with delegated authorities, financial controls and contract requirements, while verifying costs and resolving discrepancies promptly.
• Budgeting and forecasting - maintain projecting cost structures, budgets and forecasts, monitor financial performance against commitments and WIP, and provide timely variance analysis and reporting to contract leaders.
• Client invoicing and evidence - supporting client invoicing and progress claims by maintaining accurate, auditable records and supporting documentation, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and contractual requirements.
• Reporting and improvement - preparing and delivering monthly financial reporting, reconciliations and cost analysis, identifying variances, control improvements and opportunities to enhance cost capture and operational efficiency.

Skills

Budgeting

Financial reporting

Stakeholder comms

Education

Accounting/Finance/Business Admin degree or equivalent

Tools

Jobpac

SAP

Job description

Primary Location

VIC - Williamstown

Job Description Summary

Newly created role in our Transport division!

About the Role

We are excited to launch new roles in our Transport division to support our two new long-term Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) maintenance contracts awarded by the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning. The Victoria West ITS Maintenance Contract will see our teams maintain more than 4,500 ITS assets across 27 Local Government Areas, covering around a third of metropolitan Melbourne and extending west to the South Australian border. We also have the Motorway Communications Network Contract, which connects more than 2,000 roadside devices including lane use management signs, variable speed limit signs, freeway ramp signals, CCTV and sensor technologies, while also connecting private road operators with Victoria’s transport control system.

Key Responsibilities

• Transactions and controls – processing and reconciling purchase orders, invoices, subcontractor claims and financial transactions, ensuring compliance with delegated authorities, financial controls and contract requirements, while verifying costs and resolving discrepancies promptly.
• Budgeting and forecasting - maintain projecting cost structures, budgets and forecasts, monitor financial performance against commitments and WIP, and provide timely variance analysis and reporting to contract leaders.
• Client invoicing and evidence - supporting client invoicing and progress claims by maintaining accurate, auditable records and supporting documentation, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and contractual requirements.
• Reporting and improvement - preparing and delivering monthly financial reporting, reconciliations and cost analysis, identifying variances, control improvements and opportunities to enhance cost capture and operational efficiency.

About you

Our ideal candidate will have experience in project finance, contract accounting or financial administration preferably within infrastructure, construction or maintenance services industries. You may also have:

• Qualifications in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration, or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong Excel and ERP capabilities, preferably including Jobpac, SAP or comparable systems.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to operational and field-based stakeholders.

About us

Service Stream is an equal opportunity ASX-listed business that develops and operates Australia's essential services networks across telecommunications, utilities, transport, defence, and social infrastructure industries - we keep communities connected.

• Flexibility – all flexibility requests are genuinely considered. This role offers hybrid working from our office in Williamstown.
• Career development – we offer growth opportunities and support internal mobility. You will also have access to skill enhancement through our online learning system.
• Access - discounts for hundreds of businesses such as Woolworths, Air BNB, The Iconic, JB HI-FI, Dan Murphys, Bupa Health Care, and Specsavers. We also offer access to novated leasing and a share matching program.
• Paid leave - parental, cultural, community service, defence, study, corporate volunteering and purchased leave available.
• Culture – we are dedicated to fostering a workplace environment that values safety, diversity and inclusion, and meaningful recognition.

We celebrate diversity at Service Stream and welcome applications from people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with a disability or neurodivergence, and those from LGBTIQA+, Veteran or other diverse groups.

We are dedicated to fostering a workplace environment that values safety, diversity and inclusion, and meaningful recognition.

Service Stream, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading national service provider to develop and operate Australia's essential communications, energy and water networks in the telecommunications and utilities industries. We specialise in the design, construction and maintenance of new and existing networks, and deliver end-to-end engineering and asset management solutions on behalf of our blue chip client base.