Senior Finance Lead – Deep Tech Scale-Up (Sydney)

ProFound People; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

ProFound People is seeking a commercially sharp Senior Financial Controller or CFO to lead the finance function at a growing engineering / deep tech company in Sydney. This hands-on role balances rigorous financial control with speed, owning budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and future capital raises in collaboration with founders and the board.

You will build financial models, implement systems, manage external stakeholders, and grow a small finance team as the company scales, with a hybrid

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Financial Controller or CFO in engineering/deep tech or hardware-led business.
• Experience leading capital raises (venture debt, equity rounds, or grant funding).
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial planning in startup/scale-up.
• Ability to build processes from scratch with limited resources.

Responsibilities

• Own the full finance function, including monthly reporting, budgeting, and cash flow forecasting
• Build and maintain financial models to support fundraising, board reporting, and strategic decisions
• Partner with founders and leadership on capital raising, including due diligence, data rooms, and investor reporting
• Implement and improve financial systems, controls, and processes as the company scales
• Manage relationships with investors, auditors, banks, and other external stakeholders
• Provide commercial insight into R&D spend, project costing, and grant funding where relevant
• Mentor and, over time, build out a small finance team

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial modeling

Capital raising

Stakeholder management

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

ProFound People is seeking a commercially sharp Senior Financial Controller or CFO to lead the finance function at a growing engineering / deep tech company in Sydney. This hands-on role balances rigorous financial control with speed, owning budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and future capital raises in collaboration with founders and the board.

You will build financial models, implement systems, manage external stakeholders, and grow a small finance team as the company scales, with a hybrid