Maritime Project Finance Manager

Kinexus; Yamba; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinexus in Australia’s NSW coast is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to lead project-based finance across concurrent vessel build projects. You will partner with Project Managers and senior leaders to ensure margins are tracked and costs are controlled from estimating through completion.

The role blends operational finance with group reporting, requiring strong project costing, revenue recognition and cashflow management to support profitability and strategic decision‑making.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualification.
• 5–8+ years in management accounting, commercial finance or finance management.
• Experience in a project-based business environment.
• Demonstrated project accounting, project finance or job costing experience.
• Strong understanding of project costs, margins and WIP.
• Experience with revenue recognition and progress or milestone claims.
• Budgets, forecasts and cashflow experience.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own financial performance across a portfolio of concurrent projects.
• Manage project and job costing, including actual performance against estimate.
• Provide clear visibility of project margins throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify cost and margin variances early and work with operational teams to address them.
• Manage WIP and revenue recognition across active projects.
• Manage milestone and progress claims.
• Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts and cashflow forecasting; manage working capital and project cashflow.
• Partner with Project Managers and operational leaders around cost control and commercial performance.
• Support estimating and tendering activities.
• Review labour, material and overhead assumptions used within project estimates.
• Conduct post‑project financial reviews to improve future estimating and profitability.
• Lead management reporting and financial control.
• Support Group reporting, audit, compliance and Board reporting requirements.

Skills

CA/CPA

Project finance

Advanced Excel

Budgets & forecasts

Cash flow

Management accounting

Project costing

Stakeholder communication

Tools

ERP software

Job description

Kinexus in Australia’s NSW coast is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to lead project-based finance across concurrent vessel build projects. You will partner with Project Managers and senior leaders to ensure margins are tracked and costs are controlled from estimating through completion.

The role blends operational finance with group reporting, requiring strong project costing, revenue recognition and cashflow management to support profitability and strategic decision‑making.