Senior Associate, Financial Management, APAC
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Opportunity:
This Senior Associate, Financial Management role will provide support to the APAC region through updating financial systems, developing budgets and forecasts, project setup, reporting, pricing and narrative support for tender submissions for projects and other parts of the business.
This position is a fixed-term contract for up to 12 months.
Location:
The position is based in Palladium's Brisbane office.
You and Your Career:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in financial reporting, financial analysis, and developing budgets and forecasts, we are interested in hearing from you.
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting Lines:
The role is to directly report to the Senior Manager, Financial Management, APAC.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities:
Assist with the development and implementation of Revenue Schedules for projects to improve reliability and control over revenue recognition, forecasting and allowing for the reconciliation of unbilled non-reimbursable revenues.
Assist projects with the identification of unbilled reimbursable revenues including training the projects to use available tools.
Assist with month-end processing including recognition of revenue, updating of forecasts and reconciliation, and correction of unbilled revenue streams.
Assist and review monthly reconciliations of billing and revenue clearing accounts.
Play an essential role in month-end close as it relates to project-based accounting.
Collaborate with project managers and advise on various financial topics.
Provide guidance to projects in project setup, work breakdown structures coding, project workforce utilization and reporting.
Review and monitor project setup in financial systems for project funding, billing and revenue information.
Run reports and provide financial packages for internal reviews.
Set controls for compliance with Cost Accounting Standards, Unbilled Analysis and Cash Receipts.
Assist Financial Management Team with other assignments and maximize use of Financial systems.
Essential Criteria:
Strong organizational and time management skills for managing a variety of tasks simultaneously.
Excellent skills in Microsoft Office, particularly advanced Excel, including advanced knowledge in developing excel templates and reconciliation tools.
Proven ability to convey financial concepts to non-financial staff (training, coaching, tool development) and to build collaborative working relationships with staff across multiple disciplines.
Ability to operate autonomously with minimal direction.
High level of attention to detail and accuracy, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Understanding of complex chart of account structures, project accounting, subsidiary ledgers and general ledger control accounts preferred.
ERP system experience with Deltek Costpoint, IBM Cognos, Timesheet Collection or similar systems highly regarded.
Desirable Criteria:
Prior experience in professional services, project management or government contract environments.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at ****** and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
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