Manufacturing Accountant

• Full-time Manufacturing Accountant role based at Lytton Refinery
• Opportunity to contribute to key financial processes within a dynamic manufacturing environment
• Ongoing learning and career development opportunities to support your growth

About Ampol:

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose come from the people, businesses, industries, and communities we engage with.  From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives – to keep them moving, to make journeys happen. Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand. For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow

About the role:

We’re seeking a Manufacturing Accountant to deliver accurate inventory costing, financial reporting, forecasts, and budgets that support business performance and strategic goals. This role is responsible for maintaining financial integrity, managing core accounting processes, and providing meaningful insights to the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the manufacturing general ledger, including journal entries, reconciliations, and corrective actions to ensure financial accuracy.
• Prepare timely and accurate financial reports, forecasts, budgets, and analysis to support business performance.
• Manage product costing for manufactured and procured lubricants, including master data, indicative costings, and SKU-level analysis.
• Address complex operational accounting issues and contribute to projects, investigations, and process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and support stakeholders with their financial reporting and governance needs.

About You

You’re a proactive and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills and a commercial mindset. You excel at managing relationships and communicating effectively with stakeholders across different teams. Adaptable and collaborative, you thrive in driving continuous improvement and navigating change. Your attention to detail and ability to work well within a team help you deliver accurate financial insights that support business success.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Experienced in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, with a commercial mindset and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and support continuous business improvement and change initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and support cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in SAP and advanced Excel, with strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of driver/activity-based costing
•  CA/CPA qualified and a collaborative team player committed to delivering high-quality outcomes.

Our benefits

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars! 
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value. 
• Remote Working: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work). 
• We value recognition.  We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values. 
•  Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions. 
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth) 
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work. 
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available. 
• Invest in your future - with the Employee Share Scheme 
• Leave Options – We offer Wellbeing leave and Leave Purchasing. 
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.   

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol. 

 Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.

 Applications close on 14 July 2025