Finance Manager

Sydney Restaurant Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development budget

Dining discounts across venues

One work-from-home day a week

Job summary

SRG Hospitality, a family‑run Sydney restaurant group, seeks a hands-on Finance Manager to run group finance day-to-day and lead its team in Sydney and the Philippines.

You’ll own rolling cash forecasts, monthly closes, and direct financial reporting, with the authority to shape how the function runs when the Finance Director is away. A path from Finance Manager to Director is embedded in the journey.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualified with 5+ years in senior finance and full month-end close.
• Experience consolidating multi-entity groups and intercompany accounting.
• Hospitality or multi-site exposure with daily cash handling and weekly payroll.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day group finance operations and lead the finance team across entities.
• Own the rolling cash-flow forecast used for funding decisions by the Finance Director.
• Manage month-end close for all entities and provide accurate financial reporting to stakeholders.
• Attend monthly reviews with Operations Managers and drive financial insight into venue performance.
• Act as Finance Director in absence of the current Director.
• Hire, train, and integrate offshore accounting staff into the team.

Skills

CA/CPA

Multi-entity consolidation

Offshore team leadership

Hospitality experience

Job description

Our last Finance Manager is now our Finance Director.

That’s the path this role is built on. We need the person who comes next — someone who can run group finance day to day, lead their own team, and run the whole function when the Finance Director is away.

This isn’t a close-and-report job. Behind Aqua Dining, Sails Lavender Bay, The Nielsen, Ripples and Riva Rose Bay sits a multi-entity group with daily cash and card takings, weekly payroll and a stocktake every month. You’ll own the machinery that makes sense of it — and you’ll have the authority to change how it runs.

What’s genuinely yours

• The close — every entity, one retail calendar, and a mandate to take it to working day 5
• The cash — a rolling 13-week forecast across the group that the Finance Director uses to make funding decisions
• The team — accountants, bookkeepers and payroll specialists in Sydney and the Philippines; you hire them, train them and decide how the work flows
• The seat at the table — monthly reviews with our Operations Managers, where your numbers change what happens in the venues
• The acting Director role — when the Finance Director is away, you run finance

Why the best candidates will take this

• The path is proven — we’ve already promoted from this seat to Finance Director
• You build, not inherit — a growing team and real say in how it’s designed
• A finance function that uses AI — we document and query our own procedures with AI-assisted workflows, and we want someone who will push that further
• Fast feedback — daily trade and weekly pay mean your work shows up in the venues within a week, not a quarter
• A personal development budget, dining discounts across our venues, and one work-from-home day a week

You’ll be

• CA or CPA qualified, with 5+ years in senior finance including ownership of a full month-end close
• Fluent in multi-entity — consolidation and intercompany across separate legal entities
• From hospitality or another multi-site business with daily trade and weekly payroll
• The owner of a rolling cash-flow forecast in your current or most recent role
• Someone who has led offshore team members and made them part of the team
• Sydney-based and comfortable spending time in our venues

Bonus points for 2IC experience, F&B stocktake and cost-of-goods work, hospitality award interpretation, and hands-on use of AI in finance.

About SRG Hospitality

SRG Hospitality is a family-run Sydney restaurant group. Every venue has its own personality; behind them, our head office team holds the whole group to one standard — and finance sits at the centre of it.