About Us
At Downer we plan, create and sustain. Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with our customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure, and facilities.
About the Team
Social Infrastructure & Citizen Services delivers the critical thinking, building, maintenance and sustainment behind Australia and New Zealand’s essential public assets, facilities and community services. The communities we serve are at the heart of our operations. Be it through facilities management of critical public assets, precinct upgrades, new energy solutions or professional and technical advisory. We run places of healthcare and education, custodial facilities, we manage customer data centres and critical systems, we take asset management risk over 25 years through our portfolio of Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts, and we are a trusted advisor and partner to our New Zealand and Australian Defence Forces.
Job Description
We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team. The ideal person will be expected to provide tangible support and guidance to Finance managers within your allocated area, focusing on delivering data driven analysis and insights on agreed business priorities while effectively communicating value opportunities and influencing business stakeholders to select more high value growth outcomes.
Responsibilities
The role has a broad remit, with key responsibilities outlined below:
- Ensuring appropriate project master set ups with appropriate work breakdown structures and parent/child project groupings aligned with.
- Facilitating flow of finance information including revenue and cost capture by activity and object through claims, invoicing, purchase orders / invoices and timesheets.
- Supporting month end alignment for reporting including revenue and cost accrual, other adjustments and final forecast revenue, cost and margin.
- Supporting monthly forecasting and annual budgeting cycles at detailed driver base level.
- Monitoring WIP and cash collection process.
Qualifications
What you’ll bring
- A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required; Accounting/Business/Commerce based degree.
- Preferred CPA/CA with post graduate studies highly regarded (ie. MBA, Masters in Corporate Finance etc.)
- Breadth of experience working as a Finance practitioner in a complex environment.
- Proven experience in providing sound commercial and accounting advice to management and financial skills.
- Experience in the preparation of visual management tools to drive outstanding financial performance.
- Demonstrated management experience within a collaborative working environment.
More than anything, you’ll have a strong work ethic, a positive attitude, and a drive to provide high quality outcomes for the Social Infrastructure and Citizen Services business unit and our clients.
Why work for us?
Working for the Social Infrastructure and Citizen Services business unit, means every day you will be enabling our communities to thrive. With a bright future ahead of us, you find purpose here and have the opportunity to directly impact and contribute positively to our future. You’ll also find a range of benefits available such as:
- Training and development to support your career.
- Internal career opportunities across the Downer Group business.
- Affordable healthcare covers, discounted car purchase and rental (with selected brands), and other retail discounts.
- An Employee Assistance Program providing access to professionals to support you (and your family) to achieve your personal or professional goals through wellbeing coaching, counselling, financial advice, legal advice and more.
This exciting role offers you the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with a highly successful organisation. If you are passionate about what you do and motivated to succeed, then apply now.
Downer Group is an employer that acknowledges and embraces the importance of our people's diverse experiences, talents, and cultures. As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from everyone.
