Project Financial Business Partner, All Nexon Locations

Nexon is seeking an experienced project finance specialist to partner with Project Managers and business leaders across its Advisory and Professional Services practices. The role will take end-to-end financial ownership of a high-volume portfolio of client projects, from project setup and revenue recognition through forecasting, margin management, billing and financial close-out.

This is a commercially focused business partnering role for someone who combines strong accounting capability with practical project-delivery fluency. The successful candidate will provide early insight into project performance, challenge assumptions, strengthen financial discipline and help mature Nexon's project-finance processes, controls and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Project lifecycle and setup

Review projects in Business Central including budgets, billing terms, rates, milestones and contract structures, using signed contracts and statements of work.Maintain project master data and ensure variations, extensions and scope changes are reflected promptly and accurately.Partner with Project Managers to establish delivery milestones, cost baselines and financial governance from project commencement.Manage project reconciliations, financial close-out and archiving on completion.

Revenue recognition and compliance

Take responsibility for project revenue recognition in accordance with AASB 15 / IFRS 15 and Nexon policy.Prepare and review Estimates at Completion and cost-to-complete assessments with Project Managers, constructively challenging assumptions where required.Support month-end close for project profitability, WIP, accruals, provisions and related balance sheet reconciliations.Maintain clear supporting documentation and effective controls for project reviews, revenue recognition and financial reporting.

Forecasting, reporting and margin control

Prepare monthly project and portfolio reporting covering revenue, cost, margin, cash flow and forecast-versus-actual performance, with clear variance commentary.Business partner with Project Managers to determine project margins, reforecast costs, resources and completion outcomes and provide early warning where projects are trending off plan.Support consistent dashboards and reporting using Power BI or equivalent scorecard and dashboard tools to maintain portfolio-level view across a high-volume, fast-moving project environment and surface material risks, trends and exceptions.

Billing, WIP and cash flow

Ensure project invoices are complete, accurate and aligned with contractual milestones and billing terms.Monitor WIP, unbilled revenue and aged debtors, and work with Project Managers and relevant teams to resolve billing blockers and disputes.Support business-unit and project cash-flow forecasting and promote timely conversion of project activity into billing and cash.

Business partnering and continuous improvement

Act as the primary finance partner for assigned Project Managers and business leaders across Advisory and Professional Services.Provide commercially focused insight to support project decisions, accountability and corrective action.Develop, document and improve project-finance processes and controls and coach stakeholders on financial discipline and system use.

Experience and Knowledge

CA/CPA qualification, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.Demonstrated project-finance or project-accounting experience ideally developed across IT services, technology consulting, engineering, infrastructure or construction environments.Experience managing project financials across the full lifecycle, including setup, revenue recognition, cost-to-complete forecasting, WIP, billing, margin and close-out.Strong working knowledge of AASB 15 / IFRS 15 and project revenue-recognition principles.Proven ability to work across a high-volume portfolio of projects with different sizes, stages and commercial models.Experience with ERP and project/time-recording systems. Business Central and ServiceNow experience is desirable.Power BI or equivalent dashboard and scorecard reporting experience is desirable, but not essential.Advanced Excel skills and confidence analysing large volumes of financial and operational data.