Finance Manager

Scale Suite; Philippines; Remote; PHP 2,009,000 - 2,902,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th month

Bonus incentives

Claude Pro subscription

Laptop ownership

Direct employment

Job summary

Scale Suite is seeking a senior finance manager to lead a Philippine-based client group delivering end-to-end finance, payroll, and compliance services for Australian businesses.

You will own reconciliations, month-end close, payroll under Australian rules, BAS and IAS, and monthly reporting, while mentoring analysts and improving processes with AI-enabled tools.

Qualifications

• Licensed CPA with 4+ years of full set of books experience.
• Experience across more than one entity or client at a time.
• Fluent in English with Australian clients.
• Training in Australian payroll and GST rules.
• Ability to lead through the quality of work and use AI.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end client books: reconciliations, month-end close, payroll, BAS and IAS, payables.
• Review group compliance work before final review and support analysts.
• Produce monthly reports by the 10th and drive proactive insights.
• Guide analysts in day-to-day operations and technical questions.
• Improve processes and introduce automation to speed up month-end.

Skills

Licensed CPA

Xero

Australian payroll

English fluency

AI usage

Leadership

Education

CPA certification

Tools

Xero

Job description

Work Australian business hours, roughly 7:00am to 3:30pm Manila time, fully remote. No night shift. Ever.

You run a group of Australian businesses as their finance manager: their books, their payroll, their lodgements, their month-end, and the founder who messages you directly. Senior work, owned properly, inside a firm that is growing quicker than it can hire.

About Scale Suite

Growing Australian businesses plug Scale Suite in instead of building a finance department. One embedded team covers the daily engine room, the reporting and the senior thinking, with HR and operational support folded in where a client wants it. We are a Sydney-based company with our Philippines team at the centre of delivery, and we are structured nothing like a practice or a BPO: no timesheets, no charge-out rates, no ticket queue. Every team member gets a Claude Pro subscription, we have adopted AI across the daily work, and an engineering team is joining to build on it.

The role

We run delivery in small groups. Each group owns a handful of clients, and this role leads one of them. You are the client owner for your group's businesses, which means the whole function is yours: reconciliations and month-end close, payroll across awards, BAS and IAS, payables and payment runs, and the monthly reporting the founder reads. You also sit as first reviewer on your group's compliance work before it goes anywhere, and you are the person the analysts in your group come to when they are stuck.

Clients deal with you directly, in plain English, and they trust you quickly because you own outcomes rather than tasks. Our Delivery Lead sets priorities and does final compliance review, so you have a senior to work to, not a manager to report around. The team you join is well drilled, the processes are documented, and the bar is a month-end closed within hours, not weeks.

What you'll do

• Own your clients end to end: weekly reconciliations, month-end close, payroll, BAS and IAS, payables and payment runs, delivered accurately and on time, every cycle.
• Be your clients' finance manager in practice: their questions answered the same day, their problems solved before they notice them.
• Review your group's compliance work first: payroll, lodgements and month-end checked properly before the final review.
• Produce monthly reports that tell the business what happened and what to do about it, due by the 10th, moving earlier as the firm matures.
• Guide the analysts in your group day to day: the go-to for technical questions, the standard they work to.
• Improve how the work runs: processes, checklists and automation that make next month faster than this one.

Who we're after

• Licensed CPA in the Philippines with four or more years running a full set of books end to end: close, payroll, statutory lodgements, payables. You have been the person responsible, not the person assisting.
• Experience across more than one entity or client at a time, by choice.
• Fluent in Xero, or fast to be; comfortable learning Australian payroll and GST rules properly, which we train.
• Clear written and spoken English with Australian clients, because you will be talking to them every week.
• Calm under volume and precise under pressure. A missed lodgement or a wrong pay run is a serious problem here, and you treat it like one.
• Someone who wants to lead through the quality of their own work, and who uses AI as a matter of course.

This isn't for you if

• You want to manage people without touching the books yourself.
• Payroll or lodgements sat with another team where you have worked.
• You are looking for a queue of tickets with a script.

Direct employment, not an agency

You will be employed directly by our own Philippine entity. Not an agency passthrough, not a contractor arrangement, not an EOR like most companies hiring from the Philippines. Direct employment with full statutory benefits and 13th month, because we have invested in the Philippines for the long term and we hire like it.

The offer

• Australian day shift, permanently. Your evenings are yours.
• Paid above market with incentives on performance, 13th month included, and a bonus that went to every single team member last financial year.
• Paid training on Australian payroll, GST and compliance, with documented processes from day one.
• A Claude Pro subscription and a laptop ownership scheme.
• Senior standing from the start, with a path to leading a larger group as we grow, and travel to Sydney for top performers as business needs arise.