Finance Operations Analyst

Job Description

Location: anywhere within Essential Energy’s operational footprint NSW We are unique Join an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry’s future. About the role Applications are now open for a Finance Operations Analyst to join the team. This position is being offered as a fixed term contract for 12 months initially. The Finance Operations Analyst is responsible for supporting the operations of Finance Transactions and Services and ensuring all activities comply with legislation, policy and procedures. The role is required to support the development, maintenance and ongoing improvement and to drive transactional efficiency across the function and support operational reporting obligations. Some key accountabilities of the role will include: Provide advice to support the development of strategies, policies, systems and procedures to ensure transactions across the function are processed and accounted for in an accurate, timely, efficient and strongly governed manner. Responsible for the processing of Customer Payments and Refunds as well as related functions within business systems, to allow timely and accurate completion of these activities ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures. Provide business administrative and operational support to meet Essential Energy’s obligation under relevant regulations, procedures and processes, including the preparation and delivery of key operational reporting and contributing to reporting development. Administer transactional and controls management including processing and maintaining key daily and monthly reconciliations for all relevant accounts and determine anomalies and adjust in a governed manner as per Essential Energy’s policy and procedures as required. About you As the successful candidate you will have strong communication, customer service and stakeholder management skills as this role will see you interact with a diverse range of stakeholders and handle all types of enquiries. You will be able to review and improve business processes, systems, reporting and controls, including change management requirements and stakeholder impacts. This role is diverse, and you will be someone who thrives managing multiple assignments and tasks, setting priorities, and adapting to changing conditions and work assignments. For this you will need a strong understanding of business systems relevant to the role including ERP, Reporting tools and the Microsoft Office suite. Required Qualifications | Experience Certificate IV in Business or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications. Demonstrated experience in a similar diverse role in a large transactional volume-based service environment with an understanding of financial transactions and reporting. Analytical skills and the ability to contribute to the development and delivery of operational reporting. Demonstrated experience in reviewing and maintaining ensuring internal controls are maintained and improved. Experience in providing business and operational support in a functional and customer service focused environment. Demonstrated experience in the development and delivery of training materials and assisting in education of key stakeholders. Why Essential Energy We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience and 16% superannuation. Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits including 26 weeks paid parental leave, learning and development opportunities, and Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. As a pivotal player in the energy future of NSW and the country – we cover 95% of NSW and parts of southern QLD – we are an organisation with a wider variety of roles than you may first think. Whether you want to work remotely, in a coastal region or rurally, we will invest in you, develop you and help you shape a career in energy that will give you future opportunities you may never have realised in a sector where there is so much to explore. #J-18808-Ljbffr