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Job Requisition ID: 38520
Consultant | Partner Ledger Support
Choice and flexibility on where, when and how you work
Mentoring programs – receive support and coaching to progress your career
Learn from the best in the business
At Deloitte, we offer a unique and exceptional career experience to inspire and empower talents like you to make an impact that matters for our clients, people, and community. Deloitte offers you a highly inclusive, collaborative workplace and unrivalled opportunities to realise your full potential. We are always looking for people with the relentless energy to push themselves further, and to find new avenues and unique ways to reach our shared goals.
We are open to candidates based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth.
What will your typical day look like?
The Partner Ledger Support team is critical to ensuring the financial health of Partner ledgers. This role involves close collaboration with Partners to manage working capital, address engagement financial queries, maintain visibility on high-risk engagements, mitigate risks effectively and escalate when necessary.
Your specific responsibilities as a Partner Ledger Support (PLS) team member include, but are not limited to, the following:
Meeting assigned Partners monthly to discuss their WIP & Debtors ledgers, highlighting opportunities to invoice clients and / or for Partners to chase clients for overdue payments
Acting as the ‘go to person’ for engagement teams and Partners on engagement code management queries
Looking after and undertaking maintenance of engagement codes including updating resource rates, processing financial adjustments, and closing engagement codes, whilst working seamlessly with the internal Engagement Support Centre of Excellence team
Analysing and identifying causes and consequences in engagement financials
Identifying and mitigating operational business risk, with focus on key financial metrics
Providing financial status reports, including commentary on Partner working capital positions, and assisting the Business Finance team with month-end financial hygiene
Liaising with relevant teams offshore
Collaborating with internal stakeholders, including but not limited to Business Finance, National Resourcing, engagement teams and Operating Unit Leaders
Responding to ad-hoc queries on financial position / performance from Firm Leadership or engagement teams.
About the team
The Engagement Financial Operations (EFO) team provides a comprehensive firm-wide engagement support service to facilitate good engagement health, hygiene, and financial management across all engagements and client accounts. The EFO support Partners and engagement teams with engagement financial management, whilst providing insights relating to engagement financial risk and impacts on engagement financial performance.
The Partner Ledger Support (PLS) team sits under EFO in the National Finance Business Unit and is responsible for monitoring Partner ledger hygiene, highlighting DSO improvement opportunities and identifying potential exposures.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you.
You may have all or some of the following skills / experiences:
At least 12 months experience in a similar operations/project controller role
Experience and exposure to financials and financial reporting
Knowledge and experience in software programs such as Excel, PowerBI, Tableau, and SAP (preferable)
Possess a bachelor’s degree or above in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
Strong communication, attention to detail, multitasking, numerical and interpersonal skills
Ability to present, interact and articulate financials to all levels of seniority
Motivation and a ‘can-do’ attitude
Excellent stakeholder management skills – ability to gain stakeholder commitment to actions
Excellent negotiation skills and the ability to manage difficult conversations assertively and professionally
Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.
We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they’re in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.
We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package

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