Responsibilities
- Capital Accounting Framework & Process Stand-up Process Excellence - Map and stand up robust financial processes for capital purchases and asset accounting within the new ERP environment.
- Draft, review, and finalise standard operating procedures (SOPs) and control frameworks to guide offshore operations
- Data Migration - Lead the complex asset and capital data migration from Great Plains into SAP S/4HANA, ensuring data integrity and ledger matching
- Defect Mitigation - Design and deploy manageable, short-term workarounds at go-live to handle functional defects while engineering robust, long-term systematic fixes.
- Offshore Transition, Training & Knowledge Transfer Process Simplification - Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes and implement best-practice standardisation.
- Coach and Build Capability - Act as the core onshore mentor, executing structured knowledge transfer and comprehensive training for the Bangalore team members
- Oversight - Oversee the transition from knowledge transfer into guided production into go live, establishing quality control (QC) checks and independent review steps.
- ERP Testing Program & Variance Investigation ERP System Delivery - Drive the SAP S/4HANA user acceptance testing (UAT) script development and execution program
- Defects Resolution - Proactively analyse, investigate, and rectify financial data variances, ensuring all software and mapping defects are captured prior to go-live
- Data Validation - Leverage standard data-lake querying tools (such as SQL within GCP) to extract, analyze, and validate complex reporting pipelines
- Financial Reporting & Month-End Financial Close: Ensure and set up process transition to enable financial integrity and timely delivery and modeling a culture of rigorous quality assurance.
- Ensuring all journals, reconciliations, and reporting packages are completed to a high standard.
- Reporting Governance: Ensuring process and system is set up to enable OneStream submission integrity and the strategic consolidation of P&L and balance sheet data.
- Audit & Reporting periods: Seamless half-year and full-year deliverables and coordination and delivery of external auditor requests and requirements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Shared Services, or Global Business Services, preferably with some experience with retail related accounting activities
- Experience in process optimisation, leveraging technology, data and best practice insights
- Strong business partnering and influencing skills, with an ability to anticipate and proactively prepare for business queries and requirements.
- Experience in SAP S/4 HANA, Great Plains or Dynamics 365
- Accounting professional qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, CIMA)
Nice to Have
- Experience with an offshore or outsourced shared service delivery model is highly desirable.
- Experience in successful Finance technology programs (including SAP ERP implementations) is highly desirable
- Experience with change management and embedding new capabilities
Benefits
- An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands.
- Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W
- As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career.
Work Arrangement
On-site — Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
Additional Information
- Fixed term contract role of 12 months