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• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Exciting opportunities to help build new growth business areas
• Location: Can be based in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne

About Ampol

At Ampol, we keep millions of people moving every day and continue to be Australia’s leading transport fuel supplier and convenience retailer. 
Energy Transition and Decarbonisation is one of Ampol’s four strategic pillars, a key priority area that will help ensure we deliver on our purpose to ‘power better journeys today and tomorrow’.

Over the next few years Ampol will be working to evolve our energy offering to ensure we continue to meet the ongoing needs of our customers and deliver an energy offering that best leverages marketplace opportunities as they arise.

About the role

A rare opportunity to join our Future Energy (FE) team and lead the divisional Accounting and Reporting function.

Reporting to the Head of Finance within FE, you will have oversight for business planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting. This role will be crucial in providing leadership support and key short term succession capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure FE finance and reporting activities are in line with industry and accounting standards best practice
• Manage the on time and accurate delivery of accounting and management reporting for monthly actuals and forecast, including P&L, cashflow, and balance sheet for an efficient end-to-end process.
• Own the FE general ledger financial recording and reporting structure, in conjunction with Group Finance
• Lead financial governance, develop and maintain policies and procedures and align to Ampol group policies and processes.
• Develop and drive continuous improvement in reporting process and outputs
• Lead a high-performing team to provide accounting and reporting support

About you

You will have strong technical, analytical and communication skills with the ability to manage relationships with stakeholders at various levels. You will have a passion for working with the business to ensure we have best practice accounting standards and are meeting strategic objectives. As a leader, you will be able to uplift the team and provide ongoing support and development.

Key skills and experience

• CA or CPA qualified
• Extensive experience in managing an accounting/reporting/finance team
• Experience either from Big 4 or in leading financial reporting functions in an ASX listed company (ideally in energy or electricity)
• Advanced ability to apply accounting technical skills in a commercial and practical manner
• Demonstrated track record in dealing with complex accounting transactions and problem solving
• Proven leadership capabilities, including coaching and team building for a professional finance team
• Proven track record of delivering above expectations in fast moving, complex environments aware of short- and long-term commercial implications of decisions

Our benefits

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• Remote Working: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work).
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth)
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Leave Options – We offer wellbeing leave and leave purchasing.
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
• Check out our benefits and policies on the Work180 website.

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.

Applications close on Wednesday 20 September 2023.