Project Accountant
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At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia's energy future. We're not doing it alone. We're doing it with our customers and communities as Australia's energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play. We now have an exciting opportunity for a Project Accountant to join our Finance team on a permanent full-time basis. Reporting to the Project Accounting Leader, this is a fantastic opportunity to work across a high-value portfolio of Power and Gas development projects, partnering closely with project and commercial leaders to drive financial performance across the project lifecycle. You will play a key role in shaping project outcomes through financial insight, governance, and decision support.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Project Managers to drive financial performance across multiple projects
- Support project budgeting, forecasting, and cost tracking, ensuring accuracy and transparency
- Deliver insightful reporting and provide commercial insights to support decision-making and project delivery outcomes
- Monitor project costs, commitments and accruals to ensure alignment to approved budgets
- Support project close-out activities, ensuring completeness and accuracy of final financials
- Maintain strong financial controls, governance and data integrity across systems
- Support asset capitalisation in line with accounting standards and internal policies
- Your Background
- Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline (CA/CPA qualified or working towards desirable).
- Proven experience in project or management accounting, ideally in infrastructure, energy, or construction
- Strong understanding of project financials (forecasting, CAPEX, cost control)
- Advanced Excel skills, with Power BI or similar analytics tools highly regarded
- Confident communicator who can partner with non-finance stakeholders
- Working at APA
- At APA, we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.
- We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.
- We are APA
- At APA, we're taking on one of Australia's greatest challenges: the energy transition. We're not doing it alone. We're doing it as Australia's energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.
- We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.
- As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.
- Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.
- We are committed to securing Australia's energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.
- Join our team and be part of securing Australia's energy future. We'd love to hear from you.
- APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.
- This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.
- Role closes on Wednesday, 8 July 2026. Role Reference Number: JR4535
- APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.
- We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.
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