Position: Senior Management Accountant
Salary: PHP 120,000 to PHP 190,000/month depending on experience
Working Hours & Conditions: Mondays to Fridays; 9:00AM to 5:00PM Australian Standard Time
Holidays: Australian Holidays
OVERVIEW:
The company is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to join our team as a full-time offshore professional based in the Philippines. This is a high-impact, strategic finance role that goes well beyond traditional management accounting — you will own the full finance function, drive quarterly and long-range forecasting, support strategic planning, and be a true commercial partner to the Australian leadership team.
You will take responsibility for revenue, cost, and resource forecasting across the company's growing portfolio of energy infrastructure projects — substations, powerlines, BESS, solar, and wind — while producing the business intelligence reports that guide executive decision-making. You will also be the integration owner between Procore (project management) and Xero (accounting), ensuring seamless financial data flow across the business.
As the company is still a new business, we are looking for someone to build alongside us — designing and owning our finance systems from the ground up, and growing into a Finance Manager or Head of Finance role as the business scales.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Bookkeeping, Payroll & Transactional Finance
- Manage day-to-day bookkeeping including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and bank reconciliations.
- Process supplier invoices, employee expense claims, and credit card reconciliations.
- Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts, ensuring accurate and timely data entry.
- Prepare and lodge BAS/GST returns and manage payroll tax obligations.
- Manage payroll processes and ensure compliance with relevant awards, employment agreements, and statutory obligations including PAYG, superannuation, payroll tax, and WorkCover.
2. Monthly Business Reporting
- Prepare and deliver comprehensive monthly business reports including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.
- Produce an executive-level business performance report each month with clear narrative, insights, and recommendations — not just numbers.
- Deliver variance analysis against budget and forecast with actionable commentary for leadership.
- Produce project-level financial reporting across the full infrastructure project portfolio.
- Present financial performance insights to the Director and senior leadership team.
3. Quarterly Forecasting
- Own and lead the quarterly forecasting cycle across the business — revenue, costs, resources, and cash.
- Prepare and present quarterly forecast packs to leadership, incorporating actuals-to-date, pipeline visibility, and updated assumptions.
- Maintain a rolling 12-month and 24-month forecast model, refreshed each quarter with updated project, pipeline, and operational data.
- Identify risks and opportunities within each quarterly cycle and present clear scenarios to support decision-making.
4. Revenue Forecasting
- Build and maintain detailed revenue forecasting models by project, contract, and business segment.
- Translate project pipeline and contract milestones into forward revenue schedules.
- Align revenue recognition to accounting standards, including percentage-of-completion and milestone-based billing.
- Work with project managers to validate forecast assumptions and update revenue projections as contracts progress.
- Monitor and report on revenue actuals vs. forecast, flagging material variances promptly.
5. Cost Forecasting
- Develop and own a comprehensive cost forecasting model across labour, materials, subcontractors, overheads, and corporate costs.
- Track project cost performance against budgets and updated forecasts at a granular level.
- Identify cost overruns, margin erosion, and budget risks early — with clear analysis and recommendations.
- Prepare work-in-progress (WIP) schedules and ensure cost accruals are accurately reflected in management accounts.
- Deliver cost variance analysis with root cause commentary each month and quarter.
6. Resource Forecasting
- Build and maintain a resource forecast model covering staffing, subcontractor capacity, and project resourcing needs.
- Translate project pipeline and delivery schedules into forward resource requirements and cost implications.
- Work with project and operations teams to align resource plans with financial forecasts.
- Flag resourcing constraints, cost pressures, or capacity gaps to leadership with recommended actions.
- Support headcount planning and workforce cost modelling as the business scales.
7. Strategic Planning Support
- Support the Director and leadership team in the annual strategic planning cycle — translating strategic priorities into financial plans.
- Build financial models for growth scenarios, new project opportunities, tendering, and capital allocation decisions.
- Contribute to board reporting and investor-ready financial packs, including KPI dashboards and forward-looking financial summaries.
- Provide commercial analysis to support business development decisions — pricing, margins, bid/no-bid, and investment cases.
- Assist with ad hoc strategic analysis and financial modelling as the business grows and evolves.
8. Project Accounting
- Establish and maintain project cost centres and job costing structures.
- Track project costs against budgets, including labour, materials, subcontractors, and overheads.
- Analyse project margins and flag cost overruns or commercial risks to project managers and the Director.
- Support claims management, progress billing, and variation tracking on active contracts.
9. Cash Flow & Working Capital
- Prepare and maintain weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts to support operational decision-making.
- Monitor debtor and creditor positions, ensuring timely collections and payments.
- Manage working capital to support project delivery and business operations.
- Support banking and financing relationships with accurate, timely reporting.
10. Procore–Xero Integration Management
- Own the integration between Procore (project management platform) and Xero (accounting platform) — ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable data flow between systems.
- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the Procore–Xero integration, working with vendors and technical resources as required.
- Establish data governance processes to ensure project financial data in Procore aligns with the general ledger in Xero.
- Identify and resolve discrepancies between Procore project cost data and Xero financial records.
- Train and support project managers and operations team members on Procore financial data entry and coding disciplines.
- Drive continuous improvement of the integration setup as company's project portfolio and business complexity grows.
11. Finance Systems & Process Ownership
- Support the design and implementation of company's finance systems and processes from the ground up.
- Establish financial controls, policies, and procedures appropriate for a growing infrastructure business.
- Own and continuously improve the finance function — systems, reporting cadences, and workflows.
- Liaise with external accountants and auditors as required.
- Drive automation and efficiency in financial processes as the business scales.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
Essential
- CPA or CA qualified (or equivalent international qualification).
- 7–12 years of management accounting experience, ideally within construction, infrastructure, energy, or project-based businesses.
- Demonstrated experience in quarterly and annual forecasting — revenue, cost, and resource dimensions.
- Strong project accounting background: job costing, WIP management, margin analysis, and progress billing.
- Proven experience producing board-level or executive business reports with narrative insights, not just financial statements.
- Experience supporting strategic planning processes and building financial models for business decision-making.
- Proficiency in Xero and advanced Excel / Google Sheets.
- Hands-on experience managing or working with Procore–Xero integration (or similar construction/project management to accounting integrations).
- Excellent written and spoken English — able to communicate clearly with Australian leadership.
Personal Attributes
- Senior-level commercial acumen — you think like a business partner, not just a bookkeeper.
- Builder mentality — energised by creating systems and processes from scratch, not just maintaining them.
- Strategic thinker — able to connect financial data to business strategy and communicate the 'so what' clearly.
- Self-starter who thrives in a lean, fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
- Strong attention to detail balanced with the ability to see the bigger