Finance Manager

Foodbank; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Foodbank Queensland is seeking a hands-on Finance Manager to lead the day-to-day financial operations, strengthen governance, and turn data into clear insights for strategic decisions. You will manage a small team, oversee reporting, and partner with senior leaders to balance financial sustainability with impact.

Reporting to the CFO, you will drive month-end close, budgets, cashflow, and controls, while supporting audit activities and improving processes across the finance function.

Qualifications

• Strong experience across management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and finance operations.
• Experience overseeing payroll and associated reconciliations and compliance.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong financial systems capability.
• Experience supporting audit and maintaining a strong financial control environment.
• The confidence to constructively challenge assumptions, spending and processes.
• The ability to lead, coach and develop a small team.
• A tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related field.
• CA or CPA qualification, or be actively progressing towards qualification.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close and management reporting cycle.
• Coordinate budgets and forecasts, working with budget owners to build credible, evidence-based financial plans.
• Manage the rolling cashflow forecast, and provide early visibility of emerging liquidity risks.
• Turn actual versus budget performance into meaningful insight, identifying drivers, risks and recommended actions.
• Oversee payroll processing, reconciliations and key payroll compliance controls.
• Coordinate finance compliance activities including BAS, Superannuation and FBT.
• Support the external audit process and maintain a strong financial control environment.
• Lead, coach and develop two direct reports, creating clear accountability across finance operations, reporting and analysis.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve processes, systems and reporting.
• Partner with leaders across the organisation to build financial understanding, accountability and better decision-making.
• Support the CFO with Board reporting and broader finance priorities.

Skills

Management reporting

Budgeting & forecasting

Payroll processing

Audit support

Team leadership

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Commerce

CA or CPA qualification

Tools

Excel

Finance systems / ERP

Job description

Lead the numbers. Strengthen the foundations. Help create greater impact.

Want to use your finance expertise somewhere the numbers mean more?

About Us

We are Queensland’s largest hunger relief charity. Our vision is a Queensland without hunger.We believe that access to healthy food is a basic human right. Each week, we support more than 100,000 Queenslanders in crisis and provide breakfast to 40,000 children each school week. We work in collaboration with more than 300 Community Partners and over 500 Schools. Alongside food relief, we rescue surplus food that would otherwise go to waste, reducing landfill and protecting the environment.We’realso focused on long-term change, partnering with communities to build fairer, more resilient local food systems.

• Every$1 donated creates 2 meals
• We provide over 8,000 meals every hour of operation
• Each year, we provideover 10 million kilogramsof food and groceries, which is the equivalent of17.8 million mealsand1.7 million breakfasts

At Foodbank Queensland, strong financial management is about more than accurate reporting and good controls. It helps us make the best possible use of every dollar and resource available to us, strengthen our financial sustainability and support the work we do with local Communities as we strive to achieve a Queensland without hunger.

We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Manager who wants the breadth and challenge of a senior finance role, but also wants to know that their work contributes to something bigger.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you’ll oversee the day-to-day financial operations of the organisation, lead a small finance team, and play an important role in strengthening financial discipline, improving visibility and turning financial information into meaningful management insight.

This is a role where strong finance, good governance and better decision-making directly support our ability to deliver on our purpose.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll take ownership of the financial operating rhythm, helping ensure our reporting is accurate, our forecasts are credible, our controls are strong and our leaders have the financial information they need to make informed decisions that balance financial sustainability with organisational impact.

You will:

• Own the month-end close and management reporting cycle
• Coordinate budgets and forecasts, working with budget owners to build credible, evidence-based financial plans
• Manage the rolling cashflow forecast, and provide early visibility of emerging liquidity risks
• Turn actual versus budget performance into meaningful insight, identifying drivers, risks and recommended actions
• Oversee payroll processing, reconciliations and key payroll compliance controls
• Coordinate finance compliance activities including BAS, Superannuation and FBT
• Support the external audit process and maintain a strong financial control environment
• Lead, coach and develop two direct reports, creating clear accountability across finance operations, reporting and analysis
• Identify practical opportunities to improve processes, systems and reporting
• Partner with leaders across the organisation to build financial understanding, accountability and better decision-making
• Support the CFO with Board reporting and broader finance priorities

What You’ll Bring

You’ll be someone who is equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting into the detail as you are talking with leaders about what the numbers mean.

You’ll bring:

• A tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related field
• CA or CPA qualification, or be actively progressing towards qualification
• Strong experience across management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and finance operations
• Experience overseeing payroll and associated reconciliations and compliance
• Advanced Excel skills and strong financial systems capability
• Experience supporting audit and maintaining a strong financial control environment
• The confidence to constructively challenge assumptions, spending and processes
• The ability to lead, coach and develop a small team

Why Join Us?

Bring your finance career somewhere it can make a difference.

At Foodbank Queensland, finance plays an important role in enabling our purpose.

Every improvement in forecasting, every stronger control, every clearer piece of analysis and every better-informed decision helps us use our resources responsibly and strengthen the organisation for the future.

You won’t be sitting on the sidelines producing reports. You’ll be at the centre of the finance function, leading a small team, working closely with the CFO and partnering with leaders across Foodbank Queensland.

You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact across:

• Finance team leadership and development
• Management reporting and financial insight
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Cashflow and financial sustainability
• Payroll and financial controls
• Finance systems and process improvement
• Financial capability and accountability across the organisation

For the right person, it's an opportunity to combine professional challenge, genuine responsibility and meaningful work in one role.