Finance Manager

The Andersen Partnership; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Andersen Partnership is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant / Finance Manager in Sydney for a newly created 12-month contract built around a CFO-driven finance transformation. You will move from hands-on delivery into leadership, owning consolidations and statutory reporting across multiple entities, with exposure to funds management and real estate finance.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you will implement AASB 18 insights, manage audits and tax work, and operate autonomously in a lean

Qualifications

• Solid corporate accounting fundamentals: consolidations and statutory reporting.
• Background in financial services, funds management or deal advisory.
• Lean team environment with incomplete information handling.
• Available to start immediately.

Responsibilities

• Close management accounts across a portfolio of entities.
• Manage audit, tax returns and BAS, all within NetSuite.
• Report directly to the CFO.
• Get across other asset classes outside the core lending book.
• Own consolidations, including running the FY27 year-end consolidation.
• Bring current technical knowledge of accounting standards (AASB 18).
• Operate with autonomy in a lean, fast-moving environment.

Skills

Consolidations

Statutory reporting

Financial services experience

Start immediately

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Senior Financial Accountant / Finance Manager

Location: Sydney, NSW Type: Full-time

About the business

Our client is a well-established, privately owned Australian financial services group operating across commercial property finance and funds management. With decades in the market, they arrange and lend against commercial real estate and manage the investment funds that back that lending. The group also holds interests in a small number of related businesses across other asset classes.

This is a newly created role, built around a CFO who's reshaping the finance function and wants someone who can genuinely own a broad remit rather than sit in a narrow lane.

The role

This 12-month contract is structured in two phases, giving you a clear path from hands-on delivery into a genuine leadership remit.

First 3 months, Senior Accountant:

• Close management accounts across a portfolio of entities
• Manage audit, tax returns and BAS, all within NetSuite
• Report directly to the CFO
• Get across other asset classes outside the core lending book

This phase is full on. You'll be covering real ground from day one while you get across the business, so it suits someone who wants to be busy and useful immediately, not eased in gently.

From month 4, stepping up to Finance Manager:

• Own consolidations, including running the FY27 year-end consolidation
• Bring genuine, current technical knowledge of accounting standards (including recent changes such as AASB 18), not just theoretical familiarity
• Operate with real autonomy in a lean team and a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment

What you'll need

• Solid corporate accounting fundamentals: consolidations and statutory reporting
• Background in financial services, funds management or deal advisory (real estate debt or mortgage fund exposure is a bonus, not essential)
• Comfortable operating in a lean team where you won't always have complete information or a fully mapped-out process
• Available to start immediately

Why this role

• Genuine ownership from month one, not just a seat at the table
• Direct line to the CFO, with real influence over how the function runs
• A rare chance to build real depth across both funds accounting and corporate accounting inside 12 months
• Exposure across a diversified group spanning property finance, funds management and other asset classes