System Accountant

Full Time Limited Term – 12 months

Professional Services Band D: $110,924 – $122,291 per annum plus 12% statutory superannuation.

Location: Negotiable

About Southern Rural Water

Southern Rural Water (SRW) is a Victorian water corporation with nearly 170 staff, managing major dams, weirs, water licencing and more from Mallacoota through to the South Australian border. At SRW, we believe that diversity makes us stronger, and we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive and contribute to collective success. Through providing a flexible, always safe workplace and promoting employee development, we empower employees to contribute to our strategy of great value for customers and community through excellence in rural water management.

How We Support You

At Southern Rural Water, we recognise and prioritise the wellbeing and fulfillment of our staff members. Here's what we offer to ensure a balanced and rewarding work experience:

• Embrace flexibility: We support various working arrangements including WFH, 9-day fortnights, tailor your work schedule to accommodate for school drop off and pick up hours.
• Generous leave provisions: 15 days sick leave and 14 weeks paid parental leave to support you during life’s important moments!
• Health and Wellbeing: Yearly reimbursement of up to $150 per financial year to support you in physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Professional development: We support your growth through a range of internal and external training initiatives and offer study assistance programs to empower you to reach your full potential.
• Employee Assistance Program: Receive comprehensive support for yourself and your family through our employee assistance program.
• Salary Sacrifice: Salary Sacrifice options for vehicles, equipment, and superannuation to enhance your financial benefits. 
• See what else we can offer you on our Careers Page!

About the Role

Southern Rural Water is currently seeking a System Accountant to join our team for a 12-month period. This newly created role will support SRW’s Digital Transformation Program by providing finance subject matter expertise, supporting the backfill of key finance resources, and acting as a critical link between Finance, Technology and project teams to maintain continuity throughout project delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development and improvement of finance procedures, processes, controls and reporting, while playing a key role in the implementation of SRW’s new Finance and Billing system. The System Accountant will support a range of transformation activities, including requirements validation, solution design, data migration, testing, operational readiness, knowledge transfer and system adoption.

Reporting to the General Manager, Finance, Safety and Risk, you will work closely with the Finance team, Digital Transformation team and key stakeholders to maintain and optimise financial systems, provide finance subject matter expertise and assurance, and ensure business requirements are effectively translated into fit-for-purpose system solutions.

As the System Accountant, some of your responsibilities will include:

• Report directly to the General Manager Finance, Safety and Risk as Project Sponsor and act as the Finance Lead for the Finance and Billing Replacement Project.
• Contribute to help translate finance and billing business requirements into a fit-for-purpose solution design and configuration.
• Provide finance subject matter expertise and assurance throughout project planning and delivery configuration, data migration, testing, cutover, operational readiness and business adoption
• Assess Finance readiness and provide evidence-based recommendations to the General Manager Finance, Safety and Risk regarding successful completion of UAT and readiness for go-live.
• Facilitate or directly backfill key Finance team responsibilities where required to maintain business continuity.

About you

The successful candidate for this position will be able to demonstrate some of the desired experience and abilities below: 

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline.
• Membership of, or eligibility for membership of, a recognised professional accounting body, such as CA ANZ or CPA Australia.
• Comprehensive understanding of finance processes and controls, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, fixed assets, banking, reconciliations and financial reporting.
• Capacity to translate finance and billing requirements into system design, configuration, business processes, controls and measurable acceptance outcomes.
• Experience providing finance assurance over solution design, functional coverage, data migration, testing, parallel processing, reconciliations, cutover and operational readiness.

How to Apply

Please take the time to describe how your knowledge, skills and abilities would make you a suitable candidate for this role as part of your cover letter.

Southern Rural Water is committed to diversity and inclusion in employment and is proud to encourage applications from people of different backgrounds, abilities, ages, genders, gender identities and/or sexual orientations.

Southern Rural Water acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters we work with and within, and pay respects to Elders past and present.