Project Financial Accountant

Accenture Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Australia, in Canberra, seeks a Project Financial Accountant to support global financial management and business advisory services across engagements. You will assist with budgeting, forecasting, and contract P&L, ensuring compliance and timely reporting.

The role involves liaising with client finance leads and senior leadership to optimize profitability. Join a global team delivering on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, with opportunities for professional growth and

Qualifications

• Provide value-added financial management, analysis, and advice to client engagement teams to maximize profitability of engagements.
• Collaborate with client and engagement executives and other finance leaders to communicate the financial position of contracts.
• Complete standard monthly/quarterly financial and operational activities and processes.
• Manage invoicing and collections in line with contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support and contribute to local CFM recruiting initiatives.
• Prepare and participate in CFM meetings and training sessions.
• Supervise, coach, and mentor junior CFM analysts and others.
• Execute account financial processes to ensure quality and integrity of engagement financial records.
• Provide pricing/new business support for opportunities and review pricing calculations.

Job description

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Project Financial Accountant

Support the global financial management function and business advisory services. Offer services through contract completion on regulatory and organization principles compliance, internal controls, budgeting/forecasting, contract profit and loss management and advisory to our customer leadership teams and corporate leadership. Deliver services around the globe through a network of financial professionals via help-desk support, shared service operations and customer-dedicated on-site support.

Key Responsibilities

Your role includes some or all the following key responsibilities. You should review these in conjunction with career level guidelines to gain a clear understanding of the expectations for your role.

Overall

• Provide value-added financial management, analysis, and advice to client engagement teams to maximize the profitability of engagements
• Collaborate with client and engagement executives, client group finance leads (or equivalent), and other finance operations executives to communicate the position and status of contract or account financial position
• Complete standard MTD/QTD financial and operational activities and processes
• Fulfill invoicing and collections, consistent with contractual requirements
• Advise/assist on forecast management activities (input collection, processing and report creation)
• Perform/assist with work plan reconciliation and reporting
• Track and report time-reporting hours, expenses, and variances as required, including compliance with account/engagement expense policy (if existent)Track and report third-party out-of-pocket expenses, client time and expenses against program budget, and any other expense charges to program budget tracking and reporting of third-party out-of-pocket expenses
• Contribute to the CFM organization as Value Creator, People Developer, and Business Operator
• Prepare and participate in CFM meetings and training sessions
• Supervise, coach, and mentor junior CFM analyst(s) and others
• Identify and communicate to CFM leadership to opportunities to continuously improve training, methodologies, tools and skills
• Support and contribute to local CFM recruiting initiatives
• Execute account financial processes to ensure the quality and integrity of engagement financial records
• Provide pricing / new business support for new and extended business opportunities and/or review pricing calculations from engagement executives
• Perform or assist with the preparation of engagement, project, and program reporting as well as Accenture internal financial accounting processes
• Support and execute the account forecasting process, including ad hoc and internal stakeholder management requests
• Execute all global and local statutory, tax, Internal Controls, and US GAAP requirements as described by policy to ensure full compliance
• Perform Inventory and Receivables management, including monitoring of variances and follow-up on discrepancies
• Execute/assist with balance sheet accountability, including tracking of capital assets and technology rental equipment, hardware/software costs, and other items

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