Primary Location
Melbourne, VIC
Job Description Summary
We are currently seeking a Finance Business Partner to join our Telecommunications team located in the any of the national offices.
About the Role
Nature of position: Permanent, Full Time
Location: National Offices.
Reporting Line: BU Finance Manager, Mobile
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering contract financial reporting and performance insight to drive sound commercial decision making and improve business performance.
- Delivering forecasts, budgets and long-term planning for the contract ensuring predictability and clarity of contract profitability and future cash flows.
- Managing all financial processes to ensure transactions are accurately recorded, books are closed on time, and all balance sheet reconciliations are accurate and complete.
- Maintaining a robust financial control environment such that projects are budgeted/forecast accurately and that expenditures are within approved authorities.
- Maintaining, improving and assisting with the development of Power BI reports to deliver insight across all financial areas.
- Ensuring projects are set up and maintained accurately in the organisation's ERP system (IFS)
- Ensuring timely completion of all necessary milestones to drive accurate progress reporting, on time invoicing and subsequent payment by the client.
- Actively driving weekly/monthly operational/governance meetings to help the business identify and action all milestones, overdue invoicing and resolve any barriers to cash collection.
- Ensuring financial and operational risks within the contract are identified and plans are developed to overcome these.
- Coaching and mentoring operational teams in good financial disciplines, including accurate forecasting and ongoing cost and invoicing management.
About you:
- Proven professional accounting experience, ideally in project finance or management accounting
- Experience with project accounting concepts and project management systems
- Experience of working as a Finance business partner to non-Finance teams
- Strong relationship building and influencing skills to drive outcomes required from operational teams
- Strong drive to improve Finance services through the adoption analytics and new technologies
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI preferable
About Us
Service Stream, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading national service provider to develop and operate Australia's essential communications, energy and water networks in the telecommunications, utilities and transport industries. We specialise in the design, construction and maintenance of new and existing networks, and deliver end-to-end engineering and asset management solutions on behalf of our blue-chip client base.
- Service Stream does not accept any unsolicited resume referrals from external Recruitment or Labour Hire Companies._
Department
Finance
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