Cost Accountant
A fantastic opportunity for a Financial Accountant to business partner with senior stakeholders to help drive commercial outcomes.
Summary about this job
Financial Accounting & Reporting
Company: BP
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Full Time
Salary: Competitive
Phone: +61-3-3507-9580
Fax: +61-8-4283-8513
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Detail information about job Cost Accountant. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Great opportunity to develop your career
- Fast Paced role in a Collaborative team
- CBD location close to parks and transport
Cost Accountant
About Us
GBS ANZ is a provider of a broad range of integrated customer solutions, supporting BP's operations across Australia and New Zealand. Supporting both BP and Castrol brands, our services include accounting and banking operations, logistics/scheduling operations, customer service and sales, credit management, financial reporting and HR Services. GBS ANZ has positioned itself as the true leader in a highly competitive shared services landscape.
As part of the BP group of companies with operations in over 100 countries, GBS ANZ sits within a global organisation supporting BP Australia's businesses of exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy.
About the opportunity
In this role, you will join a high performing team and business partner with local and global stakeholders to provide management of cost performance for AsPac Procurement.
Key accountabilities of the role include:
- Provide monthly cost performance and provide insights for decision making
- Establish appropriate tools to monitor and identify cost opportunities
- Assurance around the loading and reconciliation of all plan and forecast data to be utilised within the standardised cost reports
- Assurance on cost categorisation and alignment of costs across all business units
- Monthly cost to plan and forecast analysis by cost category
- Develop a monthly reporting pack and attend the Monthly cost review meetings with AsPac Procurement Director
- Develop and maintain business relationships with key staff to help drive issue resolution
About you
To be successful in the role, you will have demonstrated financial accounting experience and the ability to partner with stakeholders to drive commercial outcomes
Other key attributes will include:
- Highly developed analytical skills with an inquisitive approach that allows you to get to the root cause of discrepancies and commercial drivers
- Strong communication skills, with a focus on partnering with stakeholders across our business.
- Intermediate level Excel skills and confidence with accounting systems
- Commercial awareness of the business
- Experience in corporate operational and financial functionality and processes
- CA or CPA qualified (or working towards) with degree level qualifications in a related discipline.
About the reward
We can offer you a vibrant, collaborative work culture and a company that lives and breathes its values of Safety, Respect, Excellence, Courage and One Team. We have a commitment to developing your career and reward our people with a competitive package and flexible working conditions coupled with benefits that reflect these values.
We are a global organisation with fantastic opportunities for professional and personal growth with a collaborative culture where agile working is encouraged.
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