Finance Business Partner

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

JOB TITLE: Finance Business Partner 

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing the integrity of the general ledger for ANZ, ensuring it is reconciled back to the subledgers and approving all necessary journals to correctly categorize results

• Working with Group Finance to address reporting requirements and issues

• Working collaboratively with the Group Tax Team and Tax consultants to ensure ANZ direct, indirect tax and statutory compliance are met.

• Maintaining Tax, Compliance & Statutory returns calendar for ANZ business

• Management of Statutory Audit, Internal Auditsand Tax audits of ANZ business

• Update and maintain tax governance strategy and procedure manuals, provide half-yearly reporting to group finance on tax risk assessment and propose actions to mitigate the risk.

• Strong accounting standards and tax technical knowledge

• Assist with the group consolidation process for ANZ business.

• Planning, coordination, and implementation of all processes, including month-end and financial reporting.

• Accountable for ensuring the regional financial statements (Group or statutory) are prepared in accordance with Group accounting policies and IFRS.

• Overall analytics for Australia and New Zealand Business and presenting them to management and Group Finance along with commentary 

• Review of integrity and robustness of monthly results, forecasts, budgets and cash flow 

• Oversee Inter-company reporting and reconciliations.

• Constantly looking for improvements in the reporting process, identifying areas generating need for corrections, identifying root cause and addressing issues

• Ensure compliance with the group’s financial controls assurance framework.

• Development of reports in Oracle Fusion to ensure the integrity of numbers reported.

• Responsible for reviewing and approving balance sheet account reconciliations

• Technical expertise in IFRS creates accounting memos to support accounting treatments.

• Research technical accounting changes, determine impact on the business, and coordinate training.

• Ensure compliance and internal control levels within the region.

• Lead and participate in finance and cross-functional adhoc assignments as required

• Ensuring processes for the finance department are up-to-date and any gaps are addressed.

• Reporting directly to Finance Director

• Assisting in mentoring staff

• Other ad hoc tasks as required.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• A recognized accounting qualification (CA/CPA)
• Solid hands-on experience in corporate accounting, tax & statutory compliance of ANZ

• At least 5 years’ post-qualification experience in industry is required.

• Proven track record operating with diverse team in a multinational environment
• Prefer a professional practice background, preferably from a ‘Big 4’ background.
• Experience of managing and mentoring staff
• Experience with ERP systems (Oracle) and reporting systems is preferred.
• Technical accounting skills and strong ANZ tax expertise
• An understanding and appreciation of end-to-end processes leading to the final reporting of financial performance
• Must be able to meet tight deadlines without fail and have problem-solving skills and a can-do approach to challenges.

• Ability to research legislation and foreign compliance and engage with multiple partners in managing remote locations. 

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