Finance Manager

Arete Executive; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression to Head of Finance

Brisbane office culture

Modern SAP stack

Job summary

Arete Executive, Brisbane-based manufacturer and distributor, seeks a finance leader to own month-end close, international tax, and production costing in SAP. You will establish BOM structures, overhead recovery, and cost analysis while leading a small team and partnering with the Head of Finance.

Ideally CPA/CA-qualified with hands-on costing across multi-currency operations. Strong collaboration and commercial mindset are essential for scaling the business and enabling strategic leadership.

Qualifications

• Qualified CPA or CA with hands-on production costing experience.
• Deep production costing across BOMs, overhead recovery, labour and machinery allocation.
• Experience navigating multi-currency operations on a major ERP platform.
• Strong international tax exposure, especially US/EU VAT, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close and expand international tax compliance workload.
• Champion BOM structures, overhead recovery models and warehouse cost analytics in SAP.
• Lead a small team and partner with Head of Finance to enable strategic leadership.
• Develop financial dashboards and cost intelligence for senior leadership.

Skills

CPA/CA

Production costing

BOM costing

Cost variance reporting

Education

CPA/CA designation

Tools

SAP

Job description

• Build financial infrastructure in a business at a genuine inflection point
• A clear and visible pathway to senior finance leadership as the business continues to scale
• Modern SAP enterprise technology in a hands-on, commercially sharp Brisbane office culture

• Build financial infrastructure in a business at a genuine inflection point
• A clear and visible pathway to senior finance leadership as the business continues to scale
• Modern SAP enterprise technology in a hands-on, commercially sharp Brisbane office culture

About the company

This is a privately owned Australian manufacturer and distributor of premium specialty products for the construction market, headquartered in Brisbane with a growing international footprint, active in the US and entering the European market. Seven years of sustained growth have produced a genuinely complex, multi-currency operation running modern SAP enterprise technology. With a new COO driving operational improvement and the business approaching statutory audit thresholds, the leadership team is now investing in the financial infrastructure needed to scale with confidence. The culture is hands-on, commercially sharp, and built for people who thrive close to the action.

About the opportunity

This is a newly created, position that reflects the scale and complexity the finance function now demands. You will own the month-end cycle, manage an expanding international tax compliance workload spanning US state by state obligations and imminent European requirements, and become the internal champion for production costing, building bill of materials structures, overhead recovery models, and warehouse cost analysis within SAP. Leading a small team of three and working closely with the Head of Finance, you will free them for strategic leadership while you own the operational heartbeat of the business. Over your first six months you will shape financial dashboards, develop meaningful cost intelligence for the senior leadership team, and help lay the foundation for an integrated ERP future. This is not a role for someone content to maintain what exists. It is for someone who questions the numbers, maps the unmapped, and treats financial systems as a platform for genuine commercial insight.

About you

You are ideally CPA or CA qualified with comparable experience in an accounting leadership role. You bring genuine, hands-on production costing experience across BOMs, overhead recovery, labour and machinery allocation, and variance reporting, and you are confident navigating multi-currency operations on a major ERP platform. SAP experience is a strong advantage as is international tax exposure, particularly US state by state obligations or European VAT. Just as important as your technical credentials is your character: intellectually curious, commercially inquisitive, and genuinely collaborative. You lead by being present and generous with your knowledge, and you step across functional boundaries without hesitation when the business needs it.

What's on offer

You will join at a genuine inflection point. This is a business that has grown substantially over seven years and is now making the investment in people, systems, and financial leadership to match its ambitions. You will build alongside a highly experienced Head of Finance who is invested in developing the next senior finance leader for the business, with a clear and visible pathway into that role as the organisation scales. A modern SAP enterprise stack, an active ERP integration roadmap, and a high energy, collaborative Brisbane office culture round out the opportunity. This is a rare chance to architect the financial engine of a high growth business, not simply run it.