Senior Financial Analyst – Financial Reporting

Santos

About Us

Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure. 

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

 

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled Senior Financial Analyst – Financial Reporting to join the Santos team. Based at our Global Headquarters in Adelaide and reporting to the Finance Manager, this key position will assist the Financial Reporting team with the provision of timely, reliable and relevant accounting technical information to assist with the management of group activities and meeting the Group’s obligations relating to external financial statutory reporting for the Group and at a subsidiary level.

This incorporates monitoring developments in accounting policies and standards and for providing accounting-based training programs and finance systems support, to ensure achievement of the Company’s strategy and shareholder value.

Key responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

  • Assistance with the preparation and review of the Santos Group Financial Statements for the half-year and year-end reporting periods, ensuring compliance with the most recent disclosure requirements under accounting standards and other statutory or regulatory requirements.
  • Co-ordination and control of the annual subsidiary financial statements process.
  • Key liaison with external auditors for both the Group and subsidiary financial statement process.
  • Participate in the Group entity management committee and facilitate the processes for intercompany dividends, recapitalisations, investment and intercompany impairments 
  • Maintain SAP entity structure including new entities and liquidated entities and ensuring the correct roll-up of entities for Group reporting purposes and sub-group level consolidations
  • Coordinate internal control environment attestation process and actively seek opportunities for continuous improvement and with a particular focus on the key finance internal controls

About You

It is expected that applicants will possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, as well Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, or CPA Australia, or equivalent. In addition, you will also be able to demonstrate the following:

  • Sound technical knowledge of Corporation Law, Accounting Standards and other relevant statutory reporting requirements. 
  • Proven experience in researching Accounting Pronouncements – you should be able to demonstrate the ability to assess the impact of accounting pronouncements
  • Professional experience in Accounting with a Chartered Accounting firm or accounting section of a large corporate organisation, preferably in the Oil and Gas industry

If this role sounds like the ideal match for you, do not hesitate, apply now!

Supporting a Diverse Workforce 

Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.  

 

We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.  

Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply. 

 

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 4th October 2024.  

 

A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply.  

Potential Scams

There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place.  You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is 

https://recruitment.santos.com/

To apply for this job please visit recruitment.santos.com.