Senior Management Accountant

Step into a high-impact finance role with true commercial ownership across a national logistics network. This opportunity partners with Department Heads across multiple locations, offering visibility to executive strategy, end-to-end budget ownership, and influence over how financial insights shape business decisions across a complex, distributed model. A privately owned business in the Heart of Brisbane with direct involvement at the Financial Controller and CFO level decision making.

Lead Commercial Impact.

You’ll be the key commercial partner to operational leaders, helping translate on-the-ground activity into measurable financial outcomes. From fleet investment to cost allocation, your work will shape how the business makes decisions.

Strategic Growth Path.

With full visibility of operational performance and CFO trust from day one, this is a runway into senior commercial leadership. Expect scope to evolve the role and become a Commercial Finance Manager over time.

Collaborative Finance Culture.

You’ll join a corporate finance team that partners closely with operations. Expect access to decision-makers, strong systems support, and a culture that values initiative, accountability, and solutions-focused thinking.

The Opportunity

This privately owned group has grown steadily into a nationally recognised force in logistics and operational services. With a multi-site model, revenue in the $500m range, and a commercial leadership team that values action over red tape, they offer a rare chance to work in a business where your insights genuinely influence what happens on the ground. This business is delivering vital work in the Australian Seaboard, directly impacting a range of businesses and continuing to innovate and grow organically.

The Senior Management Accountant will play a critical role in bringing commercial clarity to front line decisions. You’ll guide planning, forecasting, and investment conversations, while supporting operational managers to understand the financial impact of their work. This is more than just a month-end role or budget preparation role it’s about using numbers to move the dial on performance. To educate and bring non financially focused operators into the fold of the wider strategy and their impact on growth financially, operationally and culturally.

The Leadership Team

You’ll report into a commercially experienced Financial Controller with a strong dotted line to the CFO who expects quality, but also backs his people to lead, grow and make mistakes in a safe environment. The leadership team is accessible and values strong communicators who can bridge finance and operations. There’s real appetite for ideas, if you can build a business case, you’ll be heard and expected to execute.

The Team Culture

This is a stable, growing team known for being down-to-earth, collaborative, and commercially switched on. Everyone works together to deliver real results, and there’s strong learning and development support in place to help you grow your career while adding value from day one. As mentioned this business deals with a variety of clients in multiple jurisdictions. They're creating tangible, important and great quality value, something many financial professionals yearn for. You can see the fruits of your labour on more than just the P&L.

What You’ll Do

Before diving in. This role requires someone with a strategic focus, who's financially intelligent, tech savvy with PowerBi, SQL, Datawarehouses and can effectively prioritise and collaborate with various internal stakeholders. The team works together, ownership and accountability is shared and not delegated from an ivory tower. You're entrusted with preparing, challenging and executing on business activities at various levels of the organisation.

Technically you should be comfortable with;

Budgets and Forecasts

• Produce a detailed three-year rolling budget including full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow coverage
• Lead monthly planning cycles and forecasting in partnership with operational managers
• Monitor and analyse budget performance, provide recommendations, and drive continuous forecast accuracy

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Deliver weekly and monthly KPI insights and contribute to Group financial statement preparation
• Educate and support non-finance leaders to better understand their budgets and financial impacts
• Build reporting tools and dashboards (Power BI) that make data accessible and actionable for operational teams

Business Performance and Decision Support

• Drive performance improvement by challenging assumptions and identifying cost optimisation opportunities
• Ensure accurate cost allocation across multiple business units and revenue streams
• Collaborate with analysts to improve financial systems, reporting accuracy, and decision-making frameworks

Reporting and Project Support

• Provide support for month-end close and deliver ad hoc reporting for executive leadership
• Conduct variance analysis and ensure revenue is captured consistently across the business
• Support investment decisions through ROI modelling, Capex planning, and asset life cycle analysis

Who You Are

You’re commercially curious, operationally minded, and confident in your ability to influence decision-making. This role suits someone who thrives on variety and wants their work to drive real results in a fast-moving industry.

• CA or CPA qualified with at least 5 years of commercial or management accounting experience
• Background in operational industries such as logistics, transport, industrial services, or similar
• Proven capability in budgeting, forecasting, and business partnering in distributed or multi-site businesses
• Confident with Excel (Power Query, modelling), Power BI, and turning large datasets into insights
• Strong communication skills with the ability to push back, manage competing priorities, and work independently

The Offer

This is more than a Senior Management Accountant role, it’s a rare opportunity to own your commercial patch, influence operational decisions, and work alongside leaders who back initiative and reward impact. With genuine career progression pathways and a culture that blends structure with agility, this is a role for someone who wants to lead, not just report.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.
To apply, please click "Apply" or contact Reggie Van Driel on +61 7 3032 2222 or reggie.vandriel@robertwalters.com.au for a confidential discussion.