Financial Controller

[axr] Recruitment & Search; Sydney; On-site; AUD 212,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary package

Sydney base

Flexible hours

Global role

Job summary

axr Recruitment & Search is sourcing a Financial Controller for a large listed multinational based in Sydney. The role owns the record to report process globally across countries, currencies and time zones, partnering with senior finance leadership.

You’ll refresh R2R standards, oversee balance sheet, sign off on intercompany transactions, and drive automation while managing one direct report within a global, offshore SSC-driven setup.

Qualifications

• Extensive end-to-end R2R experience across multiple jurisdictions.
• Audit background with controllership in a large listed business.
• Experience with offshore shared services or outsourced model.
• International, multi-currency exposure.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and driving standards.
• Proficient in Excel for deep-dive analysis.

Responsibilities

• Refresh global R2R standards including month-end close and intercompany transactions.
• Define and enforce global R2R standards and ensure adoption.
• Oversee the balance sheet with targeted reviews and clearance of aged items.
• Own the R2R control framework including segregation of duties.
• Address internal audit findings related to R2R and resolve root causes.
• Drive automation across journals and intercompany; explore AI opportunities with transformation lead.
• Lead through influence with one direct report and a finance network.

Skills

Senior finance leader

R2R experience

Offshore SSC experience

Multi-currency exposure

Ambiguity tolerance

Transformation experience

Tools

Oracle

BlackLine

EPM

Excel

Job description

A fantastic opportunity as Financial Controller of a large listed multinational company based in Sydney.

• Own & improve global financial reporting standards & controls E2E
• Flexible working, reporting to GM Finance
• ~$250k incl. of super + STI

Role Summary

• A large, listed multinational is looking for a Financial Controller to own its record to report process globally, across a lot of countries, currencies and time zones.
• Finance runs through a mix of in-country teams and an offshore shared services centre, so the same process gets done quite differently depending on where you look. Your job is to assess, improve & standardise.
• You will report to the GM Finance, with real backing from senior finance leadership.

What the Role Involves

• Refreshing the global R2R standards first up. Month end close, journals, balance sheet reconciliations and intercompany transactions.
• You'll help set the global standard and then make sure it actually sticks.
• Oversight of the balance sheet rather than doing the recs yourself, including targeted reviews of high risk areas and getting aged items cleared.
• Owning the R2R control framework, segregation of duties included.
• Any internal audit findings that touch R2R come to you to resolve properly, root cause and all.
• Driving more automation across journals and intercompany, and looking at where AI can take out manual work (alongside a transformation lead already in place).
• One direct report, but a big network of finance teams relying on your standards who don't report to you.

Ideal Background / Experience

• Established senior finance leader, not after a first step up.
• Audit background, then controllership in a large listed business.
• Genuine end to end R2R experience, from how a transaction is recorded right through to what gets reported.
• You've worked with an offshore shared services or outsourced model and know how to get the best out of one.
• International and multi-currency exposure is important here.
• Oracle, BlackLine and EPM or similar, and happy to get into the detail in Excel when needed.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. There's no set weekly list of deliverables, so you'll need to be someone who works out what matters and gets on with it.
• A services or project-based background is a plus but not essential.

What's on Offer

• circa $250k including super, plus STI.
• Sydney based.
• Flexibility, no mandated office days. It's a global role so some non-standard hours come with it.
• Good timing to join, with year end done and half year still a way off.