Title:  Senior Management Accountant

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Role

The Senior Management Accountant supports the Corporate Finance Manager in delivering accurate and timely financial outcomes for corporate cost centres. The role contributes to the integrity of month‑end results, assists with corporate charges, maintains sound financial controls, and provides reliable financial information that underpins budgeting, forecasting, and day‑to‑day operational decision‑making. This position ensures strong internal service by partnering effectively with stakeholders and supporting the wider finance team in achieving consistent and high‑quality financial processes. Your focus will be on getting the fundamentals right; accurate corporate charge outs, a tidy ledger, and timely month end delivery  while preparing high quality data that enables budgeting and forecasting analysis.

What you will do;

• Manage corporate charge outs from start to finish, including preparing datasets, coding correctly and resolving queries
• Review and post journals, tidy misallocations and maintain a clean, accurate ledger
• Deliver core month‑end tasks, including timely balance sheet reconciliations and reporting
• Prepare utilisation report and ad-hoc reports at request, presenting information in clear, well‑formatted tables
• Prepare reliable data packs to support budgeting, forecasting and analysis
• Look for opportunities to simplify processes, improve inputs and reduce rework across the team
• Work collaboratively with Corporate Finance, Business Unit Finance and corporate function stakeholders to ensure coding, cost allocations and reporting are accurate and understood
• Support consistent procure‑to‑pay practice including guiding stakeholders on correct PO creation

What we are looking for;

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or related discipline
• CPA, CA or currently working towards this
• Advanced Excel skills including data manipulation, handling large datasets, analysis, reporting and strong presentation/formatting capability.
• Familiarity with ERP Systems (eg Workday) and standard finance tools (eg Blackline)
• A logical, thorough problem‑solver who can track issues to their source and resolve them systematically and proactively
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong sense of ownership over the quality of your work
• Clear, confident and professional communication skills
• Demonstrated understanding of management accounting principles

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What’s in it for you

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.

Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.

Flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.