Project Financial Management, Senior Specialist

To provide support in managing client engagements throughout the project lifecycle. Offers a wide array of support to management being the central point of project management, time tracking, invoicing, resource planning, business intelligence, and collaboration tools used by many project teams. Be able to add value to the company by introducing solutions can provide visibility into performance metrics such as revenue, cost, utilization, and profit margins.

Project Financial Administrator

• Central point for the set-up within Workday of all Revenue generating projects

• Set up and maintenance of non-revenue projects (Capital, Administration, and Business Development) (SLA – Turnaround time within 24 hours)

• Perform end-to-end process of project setting up and maintenance of both Revenue and Non-Revenue generating project in Workday throughout project lifecycle

• Liaise with ANZ Project Accountants to ensure project set up or update requests are correct & appropriate documentation is supplied

• Management of Project Hierarchies within workday

• Assist in generating client invoices and ensure all invoices are accurate

• Close projects in Workday as required, including balancing of budget & revenue to billed amount

• Ensure compliance to Aurecon internal policy and Delegation of Authority

• Ensure data integrity and accurate financial information is maintained in ERP during project life cycle via exception reporting & data updates as required

• Periodic management of the project population and administration of project closure on at least an annual basis

• Assist in month end Revenue Recognition processing

Administration and support of Time Tracking Activity within Workday Finance / PSA:

• Maintenance of time periods within Workday Time Tracking

• Maintenance of process to complete timesheet on a weekly basis

• Reporting to the business of time analysis for action (unrecorded time, over utilization, underutilization

System review and Update:

• Participate in 6 monthly regression testing of Workday Financials platform to ensure system integrity with these regular updates

• Liaise with Workday IT support team for emerging and known issues within workday business processes relating to Projects and Time Tracking

Business Engagement:

• In conjunction with Workday IT Support Aurecon Project Teams and Aurecon Finance teams with general queries relating to Workday Projects and Workday Time Tracking Other ad-hoc tasks that may be assigned by the stakeholders and PSA Team Lead and Finance Shared Services Manager

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a similar role  Relevant Accounting qualification required and/or part way through studying CPA or CA qualification

• Accounting background is an advantage

• Good interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)

• Good oral/written communication skills

• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications

• Background or experience in Workday 

• Financial system is an added advantage

• Experience in a global Shared Services organization in a commercial environment is a definite advantage