Project Accountant

About Us

At Development Victoria, we're passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government's development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

Your New Role

The Project Accountant is responsible for delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial accounting and reporting across projects and divisions. The role ensures that project-level financial processes – including month-end close, general ledger reconciliations and financial forecasting are contemporary, accurate and compliant with organisational and statutory accounting policies.

Core Accountabilities:

• Maintain processes to complete all project financial forecasts including Profit and Loss, Cashflow and Balance Sheet accounts as timetabled.
• Responsible for month end project accounting processes for projects and divisions, ensuring relevant outputs are accurate and provided in accordance with month end timetables and standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate monthly result reviews with Commercial Managers to ensure commentary and reports are timely, accurate and relevant.
• Assist to provide insights, financial analysis, and uplift financial capability across the project delivery teams.

About You

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
• CPA/CA qualified or studying towards qualifications is desirable.
• Experience in accounting or construction assets.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience gained in a finance/commercial environment
• Understanding of project accounting methods such as percentage-of-completion, accruals and capitalization methods.
• Knowledge of statutory reporting, taxation and compliance requirements in relation to construction projects.
• Understanding of variance analysis and financial performance monitoring.

Employee Benefits

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
• Professional development opportunities available including;
• Study support
• Leadership programs
• Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
• Novated leasing
• Purchase leave
• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonuses
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
• Modern onsite facilities

Application Process

• Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.
• Advert may close prior to the closure date if a high volume of applications is received so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.
• At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.
• Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 30/11/2025. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.