About Us
Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.

We are currently PNG’s largest single investor and most active explorer, operating all the country’s producing oil fields and holding an extensive appraisal and exploration portfolio. Our aspirations and strategies reflect our genuine commitment to making a meaningful contribution to the lives of Papua New Guineans.

At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.

Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas supplier, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.

For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.

About the Role
As an accomplished professional with a proven track record in financial management and team leadership, the role of Accounting Manager will be dedicated to upholding meticulous financial integrity and control. With a focus on creating a supportive environment for team development, steadfast mentorship, and guidance to nurture the growth of high-performing individuals within the team.

Your objective is to drive efficiency and accuracy across all financial processes, including Joint Venture billings, cost sharing, revenue accounting, and inventory management, while fostering transparent communication and collaboration with corporate finance teams, BU finance teams, and external auditors to ensure compliance and accountability.

Key accountabilities include:

• Provide leadership and manage an effective interface with all internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure timely and no errors in the monthly accounting close process
• Ensure that process controls are developed, documented, and embedded ensuring balance sheet
• reconciliations are accurate. Perform monthly review of accounts reconciliations, research/resolve any issues identified and make recommendations for improvement to the Finance Services Manager
• JV billings, cash calls are issued on a timely basis and is accurate. Ensuring compliance with the JVOA agreements and that there is effective communication with joint venture partners’ accounting counterparts regarding billings, cash calls and AFE requests, and ad hoc queries.
• Financial monitoring of the Non-operated Joint Venture Assets
• Lead and mentor and actively develop staff and actively manage performance through the establishment of KPIs in accordance with BU strategy.
• Ensure that finance guidelines and controls are documented and test compliance with these requirements across the PNG BU
• Establish a robust program of financial control and governance.

About You

Experience
Essential experience:

• Demonstrated capability to lead large teams and mentor staff.
• Strong technical financial accounting knowledge with a commercially pragmatic approach to interpreting and converting financial accounting standards into practice.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to digest, analyse and critique financial information quickly and effectively.
• Exposure to extractive industries with oil and gas and joint venture experience considered a distinct advantage.
• Substantial experience in a similar role.

Qualifications
Essential:

• Business/Commerce Degree
• Post Tertiary qualified accountant.
• ACA/CPA qualified

How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 07 May 2024.

A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for PNG to apply.

Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is https://recruitment.santos.com/