Senior Financial Accountant

• Delivery of robust financial results
• Strong service focus
• Drive process implementation and improvements
• Location: Sydney, NSW
• Application close date: October 25th 2017

ORIGIN - AUSTRALIA'S LEADING INTEGRATED ENERGY COMPANY
An integral part of Australia's energy future, we explore, produce, generate and sell energy to power millions of Australian homes and businesses every day, keeping them going and growing.
Origin offers exciting and rewarding career opportunities - from project management and leadership, to technical and engineering. Working for Origin can take you all over Australia - in the field, as well as in the office - or around the world. With global energy demand growing, Origin is looking for new ways to meet that need and create tomorrow's energy solutions. It's an exciting time to be a part of Origin.

APLNG is the largest producer of coal seam gas (CSG) in Australia, supplying Queensland's domestic gas market, as well as processing CSG into liquefied natural gas (LNG). This is a great opportunity to get involved in one of the most important projects for Origin.

This is a unique opportunity to join the APLNG Corporate Services team based in Sydney. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you'll be responsible for:

• Preparation of and driving the delivery of accounting, analysis and reporting of financial results for both statutory and management purposes
• Working within a team to prepare statutory financial statements for the APLNG Group and subsidiaries along with preparing Audit Committee and Board papers for annual and half yearly reporting periods
• Preparation and review of monthly results through Oracle journals, review of balance sheet reconciliations and forecasting/budgeting variances on an ad hoc basis, while ensuring compliance within the internal control framework
• Delivery of finance services to APLNG, incorporating all dimensions, including: financial accounting, management accounting and tax compliance- this will require coordinating, managing the delivery from Operators and Service Providers to APLNG and directly performing these activities for the APLNG Corporate segment of the business
• Compliance with external reporting obligations
• Providing insight into the business performance to add value to APLNG and its shareholders
• Coaching and mentoring members of the team and influencing stakeholders in other teams

This is your chance to assist in the delivery of the APLNG Consolidated Group position in APLNG management and its shareholders, requiring the effective coordination of information from operators and other service providers to APLNG.

You'll need to be commercially astute, responsive to customer needs and detail focused. You must also hold qualifications in Accounting, Commerce or Economics and have completed a professional qualification (CA/CPA).

You can show, through the work you've done:

• Solid Finance/Accounting experience which includes the preparation of statutory financial statements under IFRS
• Attention to detail and ability to critically analyse information and synthesise to deliver insight and identify issues and anomalies
• Experience operating in customer focused finance service or Joint Ventures
• Sound technical accounting knowledge with the ability to question and interpret results and seek answers that appropriately justify the results
• Focus on continuous improvement opportunities
• Good understanding of key controls with a focus on identifying and establishing controls in day-to-day activities
• Demonstrate initiative, enthusiasm, self-motivation and drive
• Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely verbally and in writing

We embrace the diversity of our people and flexible working arrangements to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we serve.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.

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For more information, please contact Iain Pratt on (03) 8665 7325.

Job Requisition: 56601