Chief Financial Officer

[axr] Recruitment & Search; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 260 000 - 360 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

axr Recruitment & Search partners with a large privately owned business to appoint a Commercial CFO based in Melbourne. The role sits on the Board and acts as the MD’s trusted right hand, shaping strategy and leading the finance function.

You will build FP&A, governance, and stakeholder communication, drive performance, and support growth and acquisitions while maintaining a hands-on, practical culture. This is a high-impact commercial leadership position.

Qualificações

• Proven CFO or equivalent in a large, complex business.
• Hands-on, commercial operator who can explain finance to the Board and shop floor.
• Experience in product-led industries; private, family-owned or PE-backed history is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the finance function across financial control, governance, treasury and risk.
• Build FP&A and business partnering into a sharper commercial capability for ELT.
• Explain margin, working capital, cash flow and trade-offs in plain language.

Conhecimentos

Strategic finance leadership

Board collaboration

Financial analysis & FP&A

Stakeholder communication

Formação académica

CA/CPA qualified, MBA or AICD advantageous

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Commercial CFO for a large private business. Board seat, trusted partner to the MD, and a clear path to broader group leadership. Melbourne-based.

• CFO with Strategic Leadership | Board seat | Reports to MD


• Executive remuneration package


• Melbourne, office-based

A large privately owned business needs a CFO who turns the numbers into plain English and becomes the MD's trusted right hand. This is a true commercial and business partnering CFO role and a key member of the ELT.

This established, successful business is in a period of significant change and growth and needs a leader to help steer it through the next chapter. It’s a hands-on, industrial business with a down-to-earth culture. People work hard, back each other and have a good laugh along the way, so fit with the team matters as much as capability.

About the role

This Chief Financial Officer role is Melbourne-based and office-based, with an executive remuneration package. Reporting to the Managing Director and sitting on the Board, you will lead the Finance function, and be the finance partner the MD can rely on to run the numbers, the governance and the conversation with the executive team. The role entails the following:

• Build FP&A and business partnering into a sharper commercial capability that tells the ELT where the business is heading, not just where it has been


• Lead the finance function across financial control, governance, treasury and risk, lifting team performance and building a succession bench


• Build the financial confidence of the ELT by explaining margin, working capital, cash flow and trade-offs in plain language


• Challenge assumptions constructively and hold the business to plan, budget, forecast and strategic targets


• Help drive the IT strategy, including vendor and cost management, cyber risk and getting full value from newly implemented systems


• Support acquisitions, integration and group-level finance activity as the business continues to grow

Ideal profile

• Proven CFO or equivalent in a large, complex business. This is not a first CFO role: you have run the numbers at scale and learned from it


• Confident to say \"I think you're wrong\" and equally comfortable hearing \"you're right\", with the humility and EQ to do both


• A hands-on, commercial operator who is across product, margin and cash, and can explain complex finance to anyone from the Board to the shop floor


• Product led industries: Industrial, Retail, FMCG and distribution backgrounds all translate. Private, family-owned or PE-backed experience is a real plus


• Leads with energy and care, with a track record of developing people and lifting the performance of established teams


• CA/CPA qualified, with MBA or AICD advantageous

The business is ambitious, the executive team is easy to work with, and the MD wants a finance partner who is commercial, credible and genuinely invested in people. If you have been waiting for a CFO seat where you can shape strategy as well as run finance, this is it.