Finance Manager

Cadence Connect; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

Three days working from home

Flexible start times

Job summary

Cadence Connect is seeking an experienced Finance Manager/Financial Controller to lead the finance function for a multi-site group. You will report to the CEO, own the close, and oversee three direct reports in a remote-first environment with the office visit cadence.

You will drive budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and Board reporting, while coordinating audits and tax advisory relationships. Payroll system work may be part of the role.

Qualifications

• Finance leader with responsibility for close, board reporting and statutory compliance.
• Experience guiding a small finance team and coordinating external audits.
• Exposure to payroll system implementation is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, half-yearly and annual close with ledger integrity.
• Prepare reporting and variance analysis for CEO, leadership, Board.
• Lead cash flow forecasting and liquidity management.
• Run annual budget and forecast cycle through Board presentation.
• Coordinate annual audit and manage external tax advisory relationships.
• Maintain banking and payment controls and systems.
• Lead finance system work including a possible payroll implementation.
• Manage three direct reports and support wider admin team.

Skills

Remote leadership

Cash flow forecasting

Board reporting

Financial control

Audit coordination

Education

CA or CPA

Tools

Xero

Job description

Why You Should Apply

This is a multi site group owned by large corporate shareholders, grown steadily from a handful of sites to several times that number. The finance team is largely ex Big Four and the audit sits with one of them. The function runs on Xero, with a daily report that flags anything unprocessed so the team works by exception rather than by chasing.

The mandate is stewardship rather than transformation. Most of what exists works, the team knows it, and the business wants someone who will protect that while owning the numbers with authority. The one piece of build work on the table is a payroll system implementation, which may land inside the year. If you would rather run a clean function well rather than rebuild one, this will suit you.

The Opportunity

You report to the CEO and carry the finance function on your own authority. Three direct reports sit under you, a Financial Accountant, a Management Accountant and an Assistant Accountant, with a larger administration and accounts payable team operating alongside. The role exists to produce three things, a clean monthly and annual close, a budget and forecast the Board can rely on, and a cash position managed forward rather than reported backward.

The team is remote first and has been for some time. Finance is in the office one day a week and the administration team runs off that daily exception report. Cash carries the most weight of anything in the job, particularly across the end of year shutdown, so you will need to hold a firm forward view and raise things early. It suits someone who leads comfortably at a distance and who would rather understand how the function runs before changing it.

What You'll Do

The role splits across financial control and reporting, the annual planning cycle, and cash, with the weighting shifting through the year.

• Own the monthly, half yearly and annual close, including general ledger and balance sheet integrity
• Prepare reporting and variance analysis for the CEO, leadership team and Board
• Lead cash flow forecasting and liquidity management, including debtor and creditor positions
• Run the annual budget and forecast cycle through to Board presentation
• Coordinate the annual audit and manage external audit and tax advisory relationships
• Maintain banking and payment processes and controls
• Lead finance system work, including a possible payroll implementation
• Manage three direct reports and support an established wider administration team

Who You Are

Judgement and temperament matter most here. You will be trusted to make decisions without escalation and to lead an experienced team lightly, on exception rather than by oversight. Underneath that sits a full technical foundation, because the close, the audit and the Board reporting all rest on you.

• Comfortable owning decisions rather than passing them upward
• High emotional intelligence, collaborative, confident leading an autonomous remote first team
• Willing to improve what needs improving and leave the rest alone

Proven experience at Finance Manager or Financial Controller level

Strong financial reporting under Australian Accounting Standards, statutory compliance and audit coordination

Demonstrated budgeting, forecasting and analysis, including presenting to a Board

Hands on cash flow forecasting and liquidity management in a lean cash environment

Experience leading and developing a small finance team

CA or CPA qualified with a relevant tertiary qualification, not negotiable for this role

Xero experience advantageous

Exposure to a payroll system implementation advantageous

The Offer

• $150,000 to $170,000 plus super
• three days working from home
• flexible start times
• free parking
• on a 12 month fixed term contract
• A completion bonus is under discussion and I can tell you where that sits when we speak.