Lead Asset Accountant

u&u Recruitment Partners; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

u&u Recruitment Partners is seeking an experienced Asset Accountant to own a $600m asset base across a complex infrastructure environment, ensuring the asset register is accurate and fit for purpose.

You will lead a major asset lifecycle project, collaborating with Finance, Engineering and Operations to improve how assets are managed across the business, with high visibility and autonomy alongside senior stakeholders including the ELT and General Managers.

Qualifications

• Strong fixed asset accounting experience.
• Experience in infrastructure or asset-intensive environments is highly regarded.
• Demonstrates understanding of asset registers, capitalisation and depreciation processes.

Responsibilities

• Own a $600m asset base across a complex infrastructure environment to ensure accurate asset registers.
• Lead a major asset lifecycle project in collaboration with Finance, Engineering and Operations.
• Provide high visibility and autonomy as the subject matter expert to senior stakeholders including ELT and General Managers.

Skills

Asset accounting

Fixed asset accounting

Asset lifecycle

Capitalisation

Depreciation

Job description

A unique opportunity to take ownership of a significant asset accounting function, being a true Finance Business Partner to senior stakeholders and play a key role in a major business improvement project, in a newly created role you can make your own.

The business is known for its strong culture and commitment to nurturing and developing talent - and for the right person, this role could provide a genuine pathway to new opportunities for a long-term career within the organisation.

The opportunity:

• Own a ~$600m asset base across a complex infrastructure environment, with responsibility for ensuring the asset register is accurate, well managed and fit for purpose;
• Make a genuine impact - you'll lead a major asset lifecycle project, working closely with Finance, Engineering and Operations to improve how assets are managed across the business; and
• High visibility and autonomy - this is a role where you'll be the subject matter expert, working with senior stakeholders including the ELT and General Managers and having real ownership of the outcome.

A unique opportunity to take ownership of a significant asset accounting function, being a true Finance Business Partner to senior stakeholders and play a key role in a major business improvement project, in a newly created role you can make your own.

The business is known for its strong culture and commitment to nurturing and developing talent - and for the right person, this role could provide a genuine pathway to new opportunities for a long-term career within the organisation.

The opportunity:

• Own a ~$600m asset base across a complex infrastructure environment, with responsibility for ensuring the asset register is accurate, well managed and fit for purpose;
• Make a genuine impact - you'll lead a major asset lifecycle project, working closely with Finance, Engineering and Operations to improve how assets are managed across the business; and
• High visibility and autonomy - this is a role where you'll be the subject matter expert, working with senior stakeholders including the ELT and General Managers and having real ownership of the outcome.

What you’ll need to be successful in this role:

We're looking for an experienced Asset Accountant with strong fixed asset accounting experience - someone who understands asset registers, capitalisation, depreciation and the full asset lifecycle, and enjoys getting stuck into a project and improving the way things are done.

Experience in infrastructure or another asset-intensive environment would be highly regarded, but the key requirement is strong fixed asset accounting experience.

At u&u Recruitment Partners, we value diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

Should you require reasonable adjustments or have a preferred method of communication throughout the recruitment process, we encourage you to make a request via ***********@uandu.com or phone the above-mentioned u&u consultant to discuss. In response to these requests, we will collaborate closely with you to implement the appropriate adjustments.

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