Finance Manager

Scale Suite Pty; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above market pay

Mostly remote work

Sydney client visits

Job summary

Scale Suite Pty seeks a senior finance professional to lead a portfolio of Australian clients, owning end-to-end processes from close to payroll and BAS. You will set standards for output and review the team’s work before it reaches founders.

You will tackle migrations, reconciliations and file cleanups in MYOB and build tailored monthly packs and cash views that owners rely on for decision-making.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA credential and ownership of lodgement.
• 3+ years running an Australian finance function including close, BAS and payroll.
• Fluency with Xero and ability to adapt to AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own clients end-to-end: close, payroll oversight, BAS, cash and payments.
• Review team outputs and sign off on final work.
• Build monthly packs and cash view used by owners.

Skills

CA/CPA

Xero

AI literacy

Financial reporting

Education

CA/CPA credential

Tools

Xero

MYOB

Job description

You run the file, and you stand the new ones up. Nobody here is selling units.

About Scale Suite

Growing Australian businesses hand us their finance function instead of building one. Operations, reporting, and the senior judgement on top, from a single embedded team, with HR and the operational jobs folded in where they help. We are not a practice and have no plans to become one: no timesheets, no charge-out rates, no partner ladder. AI is already in the work, used as a tool rather than a substitute, an engineering team joins soon to build on that, and clients keep landing ahead of hiring.

The role

Two halves, both yours. You own a portfolio of clients outright, and you sit as the review layer over the work our team produces for them: recs, close, payroll, IAS, cash packs come to you, and you set what good looks like before anything reaches a founder. The other half is the messy end. Files arrive on MYOB with a thousand unreconciled lines and an overdue lodgement, and rebuilding them is the fun part, not the annoying part. You review the production work, and you still do the rebuilds yourself when a file is a mess. You migrate, you fix, you design the rhythm, then you run it.

Founders ask you things that need answering today, and you answer them. Whether to wear a fifty thousand dollar surcharge or push it through. Whether a facility is worth its fees. What sell-through implies about the stock sitting in a warehouse. Most weeks you meet clients wherever they are, in Australian hours, with about a day at their Sydney offices when it earns its place.

What you'll do

• Own your clients end to end: the close, the compliance calendar, payroll oversight, cash and payments, delivered to a standard you set.
• Review the team's work for your portfolio and put your name on what goes out.
• Build the monthly pack and the cash view the owner actually uses, not a general ledger dump with a cover page.
• Take the broken files: system migrations, ledger cleanups, wage audits across a few hundred staff, obligations that were missed before you arrived.
• Answer the commercial question the day it lands, in plain language the owner can act on.
• Turn your fixes into method: the rules, the templates and the automations that stop the same problem recurring anywhere.

Who we're after

• CA or CPA who has personally lodged and owned it. Not watched someone else lodge it.
• Three or more years running an Australian finance function where the close, the BAS and the payroll were yours, and you kept running it when a second entity or a broken file turned up.
• Comfortable across a childcare group, a consumer brand, a software business and a trades company in the same week.
• Xero fluent, quick on anything unfamiliar, and using AI properly already: you take the good output and bin the rest.
• Trajectory over tenure. Your best work is still ahead of you, and you are looking to settle in and build something rather than move again in eighteen months.
• Straight-talking, low ego, no politics.

This isn't for you if

• Payroll or BAS sat in another team at your last job. Keep scrolling.
• You want the reporting pack without owning the ledger underneath it.
• You are looking for a timesheet-free version of practice, doing the same compliance forever.
• You would rather manage the relationship and elevate the numbers to someone else.

The offer

• Above market pay, and we will beat your current package for the right person.
• Mostly remote, with about a day a week at Sydney client offices as needs arise.
• Founders on the line: ours, and every client's.
• Light review, real autonomy, and a firm where what you build becomes how it is done.