Management Accountant

Boral Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Boral Limited, Australia’s largest vertically-integrated construction materials company, is seeking a Management Accountant for its NSW Concrete businesses. You will own month-end close, deliver reporting and variance analysis, and drive budgets and rolling cash/volume outlooks across Metro, Regional and Concrite sites.

You will build and interpret the balanced scorecard, analyse costs, volumes and margins, reconcile inventory, and develop capital business cases while coaching site managers.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualified.
• Experience in a large, well-established business.
• Background in construction or heavy industry preferred.
• Confident with a major ERP and strong Excel.
• Able to explain a result plainly to non-finance people.
• Comfortable working across a complex organisation to get answers.
• Willingness to travel to operational sites.

Responsibilities

• Deliver month-end close, reporting and variance analysis.
• Build budgets, forecasts and rolling cash and volume outlooks.
• Report and interpret the balanced scorecard for the business unit.
• Analyse costs, production volumes, margin and overheads.
• Value and reconcile inventory with operations.
• Prepare capital business cases and track benefits after approval.
• Review maintenance and contractor spend with site leaders.
• Support in coaching area managers on the numbers they own.
• Strengthen controls, reconciliations and month-end discipline.

Skills

Month-end close

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Cost analysis

Inventory reconciliation

Capital budgeting

Excel

ERP systems

Finance stakeholder communication

Education

CA or CPA qualified

Tools

Major ERP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

What's on offer

• Full visibility of a business unit P&L, not one narrow slice of it
• Report to the Commercial Finance Manager
• A seat at the table with operations, not a back-office reporting role
• Regular time on site, so you see what drives costs
• A clear path into senior commercial finance roles across our national business

The role

You'll be the Management Accountant for our NSW Concrete businesses including Metro, Regional and Concrite. That means closing the month accurately, then explaining what the result means and what to do about it.

You'll:

• Deliver month-end close, reporting and variance analysis
• Build budgets, forecasts and rolling cash and volume outlooks
• Report and interpret the balanced scorecard for the business unit
• Analyse costs, production volumes, margin and overheads
• Value and reconcile inventory with operations
• Prepare capital business cases and track benefits after approval
• Review maintenance and contractor spend with site leaders
• Support in coaching area managers on the numbers they own
• Strengthen controls, reconciliations and month-end discipline

What we're looking for

• CA or CPA qualified
• A background in a large, well-established business
• Ideally that experience comes from construction or heavy industry
• Confident with a major ERP and strong in Excel
• Able to explain a result plainly to people who don't work in finance
• Comfortable working across a complex organisation to get answers
• Willingness to travel to operational sites

About Boral

Boral is the largest vertically-integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt and concrete batching operations. We employ about 9,000 employees and contractors across our operations that span more than 360 sites nation-wide. For more than 80 years we’ve been building something great in Australia - rarely a day goes by that you wouldn’t pass one of our sites or trucks, enter a building, use a road, bridge, tunnel, footpath or other critical infrastructure that our people and products have helped enable.

Boral is committed to a diverse working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All suitable applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability