ABOUT THE ROLE

We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a Program Accountant to join Icon Water. This role supports financial and accounting processes across Icon Water’s capital programs. Key responsibilities include ensuring the accurate and timely processing of payments and financial transactions, conducting variance analysis, assisting with financial forecasting, and generating reports to assess the performance and progress of multiple programs. This position is crucial in maintaining financial governance and providing insights that support effective decision-making across various initiatives.
Icon Water is an Equal Opportunity Employer which values diversity and inclusion. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and all ages. We also have a strong focus on gender balance within the organisation and encourage women to apply.

ABOUT YOUR NEW ROLE

Key responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for finance administration activities for the Major Projects Delivery Program (MPDP), Professional Engineering Services Agreement (PESA) and the Network Project Delivery Program (NPDP);
• Collaborate with key supplier finance officers to resolve finance administration issues, inquiries and discrepancies;
• Work with stakeholders to facilitate the end-to-end processing, reconciliation, and review of purchase orders, payment claims, and invoices, ensuring compliance with internal policies and timely processing.
• Maintain a centralised repository of financial records and transactions, including purchase orders, invoices, approvals, and payment claims, ensuring accessibility and accuracy;
• Monitor, track, and report on actual spend against purchase orders, ensuring visibility of committed funds, remaining purchase order balances, and alignment with forecasted expenditures;
• Ensure financial governance and controls are in place for partner contract arrangements, escalating issues to contract managers as they arise;
• Support month-end accounting tasks, including managing accruals, prepayments, and cost allocations for different programs;
• Support reviewing financial transactions, ensuring they comply with internal capitalisation policies and adhere to Australian Accounting Standards;
• Support the development and implementation of an asset capitalisation framework for MPDP and NPDP that complies with fixed asset register, asset information data capture, asset management strategies, and regulated asset base requirements.
• Support the Commercial Finance Business Partner in planning, forecasting and budgeting the program’s operational expenses in the financial systems;
• Following agreement from the General Manager ISG, transition to the Integrated Program Management Office (IPMO) and support business users in the adoption of new finance information management system (Unit 4) processes and functionality, and provide advice on related purchase orders, claims and/or invoicing;
• Liaise with independent financial verification providers and external auditors and supply necessary information and data as requested;
• Provide reporting and cost performance analysis to the IPMO, and program stakeholder;
• Drive process optimisation and continuous improvement, and work with the Accounting Team Leader, Transactional Finance Team Leader, Commercial Finance Business Partners, Manager Financial Governance and Accounting and/or the Managers of ISG to implement change; and,
• Other duties as required within the employee’s skills, competence and training.