Financial Controller

Perigon Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Perigon Group is a hands-on Financial Controller role in Sydney, Australia, reporting to the CFO and leading a lean finance team. The position strengthens governance, improves systems and builds scalable processes to support growth and transformation.

You will manage month-end close, financial reporting, controls, and the external audit while driving automation and efficiency across finance functions as the business expands.

Qualifications

• Experience managing an audit end to end in a sub $100m t/o company.
• Have confidence improving and streamlining process.
• Be hands on in your approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead the month end and year end close processes.
• Produce accurate and timely financial statements and management reporting.
• Maintain strong financial controls, reconciliations and supporting documentation.
• Manage the annual external audit and act as the key contact for external auditors.
• Ensure statutory, tax and regulatory obligations are met.
• Maintain compliance with accounting standards and internal policies.
• Oversee accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, cash management and bank reconciliations.
• Lead, develop and coach a finance team of approximately six.
• Establish efficient, scalable and well-documented finance processes.
• Improve month-end timelines and minimise audit adjustments.
• Enhance automation and reduce reliance on manual processes.
• Improve finance systems, controls and data quality.
• Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks across the finance function.
• Support general ledger, reporting system and broader technology upgrades.
• Partner closely with the CFO, CEO and senior leadership team.
• Support outsourced and offshore finance arrangements where appropriate.
• Contribute to broader business improvement initiatives.
• Build the financial infrastructure required to support continued growth period of transformation and increased workload.

Skills

Hands-on

Financial governance

Process improvement

Team leadership

Job description

• Opportunity for a hands on Financial Controller to join a growth focused company
• Broad and varied role
• $180k - $200k + Super

The company

Australian owned, PE backed services business who are going through a growth phase to enable more reach within their customer base.

The role

The opportunity is within a high-growth, PE-backed Australian business entering its next phase of expansion, with a focus on strengthening financial governance, improving systems and building scalable processes.

Reporting to the CFO, the role leads a lean finance team (x4 DR's) and requires a hands on Financial Controller comfortable operating across reporting, audit, compliance, financial operations and process improvement.

• Lead the month end and year end close processes
• Produce accurate and timely financial statements and management reporting
• Maintain strong financial controls, reconciliations and supporting documentation
• Manage the annual external audit and act as the key contact for external auditors
• Ensure statutory, tax and regulatory obligations are met
• Maintain compliance with accounting standards and internal policies
• Oversee accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, cash management and bank reconciliations
• Lead, develop and coach a finance team of approximately six
• Establish efficient, scalable and well-documented finance processes
• Improve month-end timelines and minimise audit adjustments
• Enhance automation and reduce reliance on manual processes
• Improve finance systems, controls and data quality
• Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks across the finance function
• Support general ledger, reporting system and broader technology upgrades
• Partner closely with the CFO, CEO and senior leadership team
• Support outsourced and offshore finance arrangements where appropriate
• Contribute to broader business improvement initiatives
• Build the financial infrastructure required to support continued growth period of transformation and increased workload

To be considered for this role you will need:

• Experience managing an audit end to end in a sub $100m t/o company
• Have confidence improving and streamlining process
• Be hands on in your approach