Specialist Financial Accounting

Hancock Iron Ore; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health cover

Parental leave

Job summary

Hancock Iron Ore seeks an experienced Specialist Financial Accounting to join our Perth-based Finance team, reporting to the Lead Financial Accounting. You will provide specialist accounting expertise across HIO, ensuring complex matters, statutory reporting, and balance sheet integrity are sound and well documented.

You will support external audit, advise on policy and process improvements, and help drive data quality and standardisation across accounting activities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ financial accounting experience within a large, complex organisation or professional services environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or related discipline, with CA, CPA or equivalent.
• Strong technical accounting expertise with knowledge of Australian Accounting Standards.
• Experience in statutory financial reporting, external audit, financial close, and complex accounting matters.
• Ability to prepare high‑quality accounting papers, reconciliations and disclosures.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist technical accounting advice on complex transactions, contracts, projects and business activities.
• Research and document accounting positions, policies and guidance to ensure consistent application.
• Support statutory financial reporting, disclosures and external audit requirements.
• Strengthen balance sheet integrity through oversight of complex reconciliations and year‑end processes.
• Identify risks and propose improvements to governance and reporting.
• Collaborate with Tax, Treasury, Commercial and other stakeholders to reflect accounting implications.
• Monitor changes to accounting standards and assess impacts on reporting and disclosures.
• Drive improvements across accounting processes, controls and data quality.
• Build capability through guidance and coaching across Finance.

Skills

Financial accounting

Statutory reporting

External audit

Financial close

Accounting papers

Excel

Power BI

SAP ERP

OneSource

Australian standards

Education

Bachelor's degree

CA/CPA or equivalent

Tools

SAP ERP

Power BI

OneSource

Microsoft Excel

Job description

• Private health cover contribution for employees and immediate family
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers

Our vision:

As a leading iron ore producer, Hancock Iron Ore is helping secure the resources, jobs and prosperity that underpin the nation’s future. Guided by our vision to be the best mining company for Australia, we measure success not only by what we produce, but by the difference we make. We value creating opportunities, helping build regional and remote areas, and supporting Australian businesses by unlocking potential wherever it exists. Being 'For Australia' means delivering lasting benefits for today and for generations to come.

About the role:

It’s an exciting time to join the Hancock Iron Ore Finance team as we embark on a transformation journey.

We are seeking an experienced Specialist Financial Accounting to join our Perth-based team, working Monday to Friday.

Reporting to the Lead Financial Accounting, this role provides specialist financial accounting expertise across HIO, ensuring complex accounting matters, statutory reporting, financial controls and balance sheet positions are technically sound, compliant and well documented. You will provide high-quality accounting advice, support external audit and financial reporting requirements, and drive continuous improvement across accounting policies, processes, controls and data quality.

Duties:

• Provide specialist technical accounting advice on complex transactions, contracts, projects and business activities, ensuring alignment with Australian Accounting Standards.
• Research, document and maintain accounting positions, policies and technical guidance to support consistent application across the business.
• Support statutory financial reporting, disclosures and external audit requirements, including preparation of robust accounting papers and resolution of technical matters.
• Strengthen balance sheet integrity through oversight of complex reconciliations, provisions, estimates, judgements and month-end/year-end accounting activities.
• Identify accounting risks and control gaps, recommending practical improvements to strengthen financial governance and reporting.
• Partner with Tax, Treasury, Commercial, Projects and broader business stakeholders to ensure accounting implications are understood and appropriately reflected.
• Monitor changes to accounting standards and assess impacts on financial reporting, processes and disclosures.
• Drive continuous improvement across financial accounting processes, systems, controls and reporting, including opportunities for standardisation and automation.
• Build financial accounting capability across Finance through technical guidance, knowledge sharing and coaching.

Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years’ financial accounting experience within a large, complex organisation or professional services environment, ideally including Big 4 or a reputable mid-tier firm.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline, with a CA, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Strong technical accounting expertise, with demonstrated knowledge and practical application of Australian Accounting Standards.
• Proven experience across statutory financial reporting, external audit, financial close, balance sheet governance and complex accounting matters.
• Experience researching complex accounting issues and preparing high-quality accounting papers, policies, reconciliations and financial statement disclosures.
• Strong analytical capability and professional judgement, with the ability to interpret complex issues and communicate them clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• A collaborative, solutions-focused approach, with the confidence to constructively challenge, influence outcomes and work effectively across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to reporting and audit deadlines.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience strengthening financial processes, controls, systems and data integrity.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience working with enterprise financial systems.

Highly regarded

• Financial accounting experience within mining, resources or another capital-intensive industry.
• Exposure to complex asset accounting, impairment, provisions, rehabilitation obligations, business combinations or significant accounting estimates and judgements.
• Experience with SAP ERP, Power BI, Business Objects/Business Intelligence or OneSource.

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About Hancock Iron Ore

Hancock Iron Ore has a portfolio of world-class iron ore operations located in West Australia’s Pilbara region, with a strong history of delivering reliable products for our customers in key international markets. We have four operating mines: Roy Hill, Miralga Creek, Sanjiv Ridge, and McPhee Creek, plus a range of exciting development opportunities.
We deliver more than 70 million tonnes of ore each year through our own two-berth port facility at Stanley Point and the multi-user Utah Point in Port Hedland, providing the materials needed to foster global economic growth and development. Leveraging established infrastructure, including our processing plant and 344km independently owned and operated heavy haul railway, our operation oversees each moment from when ore is mined through to when it is shipped.

Located in the heart of West Perth, our headquarters offers a contemporary and collaborative workplace designed to support productivity, wellbeing and connection. From our popular on-site café, serving fresh breakfast and lunch options alongside barista-made coffee, to modern workspaces, rooftop terraces and end-of-trip facilities for active commuters, we've created an environment that combines great facilities with a workplace culture that helps our people thrive.

Hancock Iron Ore is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages Indigenous Australians, Veteran personnel and females to apply. We are a fair, diverse and welcoming workplace. We are proud of our relationships with our Traditional Owners and value the difference these partnerships make to the success of the project and to the lives of the people on whose land we operate.

Application Information

To be eligible to apply for this role you must be legally permitted to work permanently in Australia.

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