Finance Manager

Arbor Knot Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Clear career path to Financial Contro/

Exposure to acquisitions and investor/

Edgecliff office, four days in person

Job summary

ArborKnot, a fintech investing in debt portfolios, is expanding its finance function in Sydney. This build role designs and owns the processes the business will run on as it scales, reporting to the CFO and supervising one direct report.

You will own monthly reconciliations across multiple entities and currencies, support cash forecasting and funding decisions, and drive end-to-end month-end cycles, with a clear path to Financial Controller or Head of Finance as the group grows.

Qualifications

• CA/CPA/CFA qualified or close to completion.
• 3–5 years’ experience across practice and industry; analyst to senior analyst level.
• Own end-to-end deliverables and full month-end cycle experience.
• Advanced Excel and familiarity with accounting systems.
• Strong attention to detail with high volumes of data.

Responsibilities

• Monthly reconciliations across multiple entities, currencies and jurisdictions.
• Management reporting underpinning cash forecasting and funding decisions.
• Payment runs and banking across the group with controls.
• Invoice review and approval.
• Periodic fee and revenue calculations across portfolios.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Accounting systems

Financial reporting

Attention to detail

Written communication

Education

CA/CPA/CFA qualification or close to completion

Job description

About ArborKnot

ArborKnot is a fintech investing at the cutting edge of the non-performing loan market. We acquire, fund and manage consumer debt portfolios across Australia and Europe, backed by institutional investors, with operations spanning Australia, Europe and Israel.

We are small, fast-moving and commercially driven. Decisions get made quickly and people get genuine ownership of their work.

The role

We are building out our finance function, and this role is central to it. It is a build role rather than a maintenance one: you will be designing and owning the processes that a business several times our current size will run on.

You will report to the CFO, work closely with the executive team, and manage one direct report.

What you will own

• Monthly reconciliations across multiple entities, currencies and jurisdictions
• Management reporting underpinning cash forecasting and funding decisions
• Payment runs and banking across the group, with appropriate controls
• Invoice review and approval
• Periodic fee and revenue calculations across portfolios

As those bed down, the role broadens across financial control, finance operations, treasury and FP&A, including consolidated group reporting, budgeting and forecasting, statutory reporting and audit, investor reporting, and business partnering with the executive on funding and transactions.

How quickly that happens is largely up to you. We would rather stretch someone than hold them back.

About you

• CA, CPA or CFA qualified, or close to completion
• Around 3 to 5 years’ experience across practice and industry. The role will suit someone at analyst, senior analyst or financial accountant level looking to step up
• Confident owning your deliverables end to end, and ready to take on a full month-end cycle
• Advanced Excel and comfortable across accounting systems
• Strong attention to detail, particularly with high volumes of transactional data
• Clear written communication with external counterparties

Highly regarded: experience in financial services, specialty finance, private credit, funds management or fintech, or a first move out of Big Four audit. Exposure to trust structures, securitisation or warehouse funding, and cross-border group experience, are all a plus.

What we offer

• Equity participation, so you share directly in the growth of the business
• A clear path up. The role is designed to scale into Financial Controller or Head of Finance. You will be building the function you go on to lead
• Real exposure to portfolio acquisitions, funding, investor reporting and capital raising. Unusual breadth at this level
• A market-competitive salary package, commensurate with experience
• Edgecliff office, next to the train station, four days a week in person with flexibility on the fifth

ArborKnot is a genuinely multicultural team that values creativity, collaboration and growth. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where people can bring their whole selves to work.