Finance Manager

NextPlay; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NextPlay is seeking a Finance Manager who thrives in a startup/scaleup environment. You will own end-to-end finance across month-end, forecasting, and compliance in a dynamic, multi-entity business, partnering with leaders and an experienced CFO to deepen FP&A and commercial impact.

You will drive cash flow visibility, budgets, and forecasts while simplifying processes and improving systems with practical automation. This role suits a hands-on leader who communicates openly and mentors others.

Qualifications

• CA/CPA qualified with current designation.
• Broad finance remit including control, reporting, compliance, cash flow, budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience in startup/scaleup environments preferred.
• Ability to own processes, influence without direct authority and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the core finance rhythm across month end, reconciliations, reporting, compliance and payments for a multi-entity, multi-currency business, including coordination with external advisers.
• Provide leaders with clear cash flow, budgets and forecasts and explain changes and drivers.
• Apply analytical thinking to spot movements, ask the next question, and follow the thread.
• Partner with the CFO and a small finance team, taking ownership while developing junior staff.
• Identify practical ways to simplify and automate finance processes using better systems, workflows and AI where helpful.

Skills

Finance leadership

CA/CPA qualified

FP&A

Multi-entity finance

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Are you a Finance Manager who has learned their craft inside a startup or scaleup? You are comfortable moving between month end, forecasting, compliance and working with leaders across the business. But you have wondered what it looks like when that breadth becomes your biggest strength, with genuine ownership and the opportunity to improve how finance operates as the business grows internationally.

If that sounds like you, keep reading.

The company

They are a growing international technology business across marketing and media. Their own technology sits alongside a hands on service team, supporting customers in Australia and overseas.

People here are trusted to own their work, speak openly and improve things. It moves quickly. The people who do well are practical, curious and happy working things out as they go.

Finance matters. I think the interesting part is what this role gives someone already doing everything end to end in a startup. You keep that breadth, but get more support, an experienced and supportive CFO to learn from and real room to get deeper into FP&A and commercial work.

The role

• Own the core finance rhythm across month end, reconciliations, reporting, compliance and payments in a multi entity, multi currency business. You will also work with external advisers.
• Give leaders a clear view of cash flow, budgets and forecasts, then help them understand what is changing and why.
• Bring an analytical eye to the numbers. Spot movements, ask the next question and follow the thread.
• Work closely with CFO and a small finance team, taking ownership while helping folks earlier in their career develop.
• Find practical ways to simplify and automate finance processes, using better systems, smarter workflows and AI where it genuinely helps.

What you will bring

• You are CA or CPA qualified and working as a Finance Manager in a startup, scaleup or smaller growing business. A strong Senior Accountant ready to step up, or a hands on Financial Controller from a small company, could also fit.
• You have owned a broad finance remit covering financial control, reporting, compliance, cash flow, budgeting and forecasting.
• You understand multi entity and multi currency finance, or have worked across an international business.
• You take ownership, find answers and move work forward. You know when to work independently and when to bring others into the conversation.
• You have worked somewhere busy, where priorities change and good judgement matters as much as following a process.
• You communicate directly, respond well to honest feedback and build trust with people outside finance.

If you are thinking, “that sounds like me, but I have not done all of it”, we would still still like to hear from you.

If you want a role where financial control, FP&A and commercial thinking genuinely sit together, this is a chance to have real ownership while continuing to grow alongside an experienced finance leader.