Finance Leader - Queensland

GHD; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD is seeking a strategic Finance Leader to join the Queensland Regional Leadership Team. You will shape the business direction, provide commercial insight, and drive decisions that improve performance, growth and long-term value within a project-based environment.

Based in Queensland, you will influence senior leaders, lead a high-performing finance team, and champion technology and smarter ways of working to enhance capability and efficiency across the region.

Qualifications

• CPA or Chartered Accountant qualifications required.
• Significant senior Finance leadership experience in complex, project-based environments.
• Experience in pricing, forecasting, project performance, commercial strategy and business partnering.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy, business planning and long-term growth with the Queensland Regional Leadership Team.
• Provide forward-looking profitability, pipeline, project performance and cash forecasting insights.
• Lead finance contributions to major pursuits, pricing strategies and commercial negotiations.
• Influence leaders through trusted financial advice and constructive challenge.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Financial analysis

Business partnering

Forecasting

Pricing strategies

Stakeholder influence

Education

CPA or Chartered Accountant

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Job Description

At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

Together with our clients, we create lasting community benefit. Every day, our people bring curiosity, expertise and commitment to solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure and environmental challenges.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for a strategic and influential Finance Leader to join our Queensland Regional Leadership Team.

This is more than a traditional finance leadership role. As Queensland’s Finance leader, you’ll help shape where the business is heading, not simply report where it has been. You’ll work alongside regional leaders to bring commercial insight, strategic thinking and constructive challenge to the decisions that drive performance, growth and long-term value.

As a trusted advisor and business leader, you’ll provide a forward-looking perspective across business planning, commercial strategy, major pursuits, pricing and investment decisions. You’ll help leaders navigate complexity, identify opportunities early and translate insight into meaningful action.

Beyond business performance, you’ll play a key role in building the next generation of Finance leaders, strengthening commercial capability across the region and creating greater capacity through technology, automation and smarter ways of working.

While focused on Queensland, this role also contributes to broader Australian and APAC Finance priorities, providing opportunities to influence beyond the region.

Working with an energetic and high-performing team, you will:

• Partner with the Queensland Regional Leadership Team to shape strategy, business planning and long-term growth.
• Provide forward-looking insight across profitability, pipeline, project performance, utilisation, forecasting and cash performance.
• Lead the Finance contribution to major pursuits, pricing strategies, commercial negotiations and key business decisions.
• Influence leaders through trusted advice, commercial expertise and constructive challenge.
• Strengthen commercial and operational discipline across project health, billing, WIP, working capital and financial performance.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing Finance team while building the next generation of Finance leaders.
• Champion technology, automation and responsible AI adoption to improve capability, efficiency and decision-making.
• Contribute to Australian and APAC Finance leadership initiatives and enterprise priorities.

What You Will Bring To The Team

• You are a trusted adviser who combines strong commercial judgement with the ability to influence, inspire and lead others.
• CPA or Chartered Accountant qualifications.
• Significant senior Finance leadership experience, ideally within a complex, project-based or professional services environment.
• A demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and translate financial insight into commercial outcomes.
• Experience in pricing, forecasting, project performance, commercial strategy and business partnering.
• Strong leadership capability with a track record of developing people and building future leaders.
• The confidence to navigate ambiguity, challenge constructively and bring clarity to complex decisions.
• Experience within engineering, infrastructure, construction, professional services or project-based industries will be highly regarded.

GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities.

GHD embraces a range of flexible work practices to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where our people can thrive.

We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

About Us

Come together and make a meaningful impact.

We bring our people together to create something bigger and solve some of the world's most complex problems. Come and experience the power of commitment and see strategy and ideas come to life when you join GHD.

Let’s drive real change.

Our Pledge to You

At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.

#PowerOfCommitment

Who We Are

GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.

The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.