Financial Accountant

Our Company

AGP Sustainable Real Assets (AGP) is a global asset management group, investing in, developing and operating sustainable infrastructure. AGP focuses on deploying capital into platforms, businesses and assets focused around three investment themes:

• Renewable Energy
• Sustainable Communities & Infrastructure
• Natural Capital

Each AGP platform, business and asset is measured and monitored against the positive contribution it makes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and how it contributes to a net zero GHG emissions future. Among its various investment platforms, AGP has established AMPYR Energy (AMPYR), which develops, owns and operates renewable energy assets around the world.

AMPYR Australia:

• Is constructing the 300MW/600MWh Bulabul 1 BESS project along with a rapidly growing pipeline of more than 2,500MW of utility energy storage projects.
• Owns a 23MW portfolio of C&I solar assets across 137 sites and is developing a 300MW portfolio of distributed BESS assets.

AGP is committed to conducting its business consistent with its values and expects team members to be aligned with these values: Innovation, Empowerment, and Integrity. AGP is headquartered in Singapore with operations in Australia, the UK, Europe, the US and India — a rapidly expanding organisation with over 600 employees.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the Financial Accountant will support the finance team across three core workstreams — transaction support, process and systems uplift, and business-as-usual finance — with the specific mix of activities tailored to business priorities and the candidate’s development goals.

Transaction Support

• Provide finance and accounting support for ongoing corporate and project transactions, including group restructures, M&A activity, refinancings and capital raises.
• Prepare consolidation, intercompany and elimination journals in NetSuite and assist with reporting pack templates for new entities and structures.
• Support transaction settlement processes, including reconciliation of completion statements, funds flow and post-completion adjustments.

Process and Systems Uplift

• Support the testing and implementation of finance process improvements across procure-to-pay (P2P), project budget reporting and fixed asset accounting.
• Contribute to the design and stand-up of new finance processes for our operating asset base, including supporting documentation, NetSuite configuration and revenue recognition.
• Assist with the migration and ongoing maintenance of fixed asset registers in NetSuite.
• Support data preparation, validation and uploads in connection with new and uplifted finance systems.

Business-as-Usual Finance

• Support quarterly lender reporting cycles, including reporting preparation, variance analysis and commentary.
• Contribute to the preparation of various financial reports, including for management, lenders, tax and other stakeholders.
• Assist with the development of go-forward external reporting templates ahead of BESS energisation.
• Provide support across general ledger maintenance, balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany processes and month-end close as required.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Essential

• Recently CA qualified (or in the final stages of qualification) with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Commerce, Finance or a related discipline.
• Experience gained in a Big 4 or mid-tier chartered accounting firm, ideally with an external audit or CFO advisory background.
• Strong technical accounting fundamentals across AASB / IFRS.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large data sets, reconciliations and reporting templates.
• Clear and confident written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines across concurrent workstreams.
• A strong willingness to learn, ask questions and take on new challenges in an evolving business environment.
• Eligible to work in Australia (including candidates on a Working Holiday Visa or other valid working visa).

Desirable

• Prior experience within infrastructure, energy, construction or financial services.
• Exposure to multi-entity consolidations, intercompany accounting and elimination journals.
• Experience drafting clear accounting reconciliation files, position papers or reporting commentary.
• Hands-on experience with NetSuite (or comparable cloud ERP systems).
• Exposure to project accounting, fixed asset registers and capital project / Work-in-Progress (WIP) reporting.
• Prior experience supporting M&A or restructure transactions, including completion accounts and accounting position papers.
• Exposure to Procore, Power BI or other financial reporting / project management tools.

Behavioural Competencies

• High integrity, confidentiality, discretion and sound judgement.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach, comfortable operating in a growth-stage business where priorities can shift quickly.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Clear, concise and credible communicator with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Self-starter with a curious mindset, comfortable identifying improvements and putting forward solutions.
• Aligned with AMPYR’s core values of Innovation, Empowerment and Integrity.

We Offer

• A genuine opportunity to contribute to Australia’s clean energy transition, working alongside one of the most experienced renewable energy teams in the country.
• Prime Sydney CBD location with hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Competitive remuneration commensurate with experience.
• Broad exposure across corporate transactions, operational finance and systems uplift on a rapidly scaling utility and distributed BESS portfolio.
• A supportive, collaborative team culture with strong access to senior leadership and the opportunity to extend the contract or transition into a permanent operational finance role for the right candidate.