Group Financial Controller
Senior & Executive
- Sydney
- Permanent / Full Time
Job Description
The Benefits - Opportunity to lead and develop finance into a high-performing team
- Work alongside the executive team in building the long-term strategy and direction of the business
- Rare opportunity to combine solid technical reporting skills with business partnering.
- A strong mentor, who will be pushing you to develop your skill set and capability.
The Role
Reporting to the CFO
- Lead and mentor multi-site teams
- Be responsible for delivering consistent, consolidated financial reporting across (currently) 6 group companies.
- Enable centralisation of AP/AR and group reporting into a shared service model
- Overseeing ERP and Payroll system improvement projects, to enhance reporting processes & increase efficiencies.
- Use your commercial acumen to drive business growth and increase profitability.
Background & Experience
- CA/CPA, ideally Big 4 or top‑tier CA training
- Proven experience as Group FC / Head of Finance in: Private equity‑backed or highly leveraged multi‑entity environments.
- Strong track record of: Consolidation across multiple ERPs
- Designing and implementing group reporting frameworks
- Leading process standardisation and centralisation (AP/AR, reporting)
- Sector: FMCG / food manufacturing exposure is highly desirable but not essential
- Comfortable with multi‑site, operationally complex businesses
- Passion for improving processes and increasing efficiencies
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
Skills & Attributes
- Hands‑on and "in the weeds", but also "big picture" strategic
- Strong systems literacy: Able to challenge the assumptions and an open mind to different solutions
- Excellent stakeholder management: Can work with PE investors, CEO, and site‑based teams
- Able to challenge and influence
- Change management mindset: Understands how to bring legacy / owner‑run businesses through to a group corporatised model
Remuneration$200,000 - $220,000 + Super + Bonus (Hybrid Working)
To apply, please click "Apply for this job" below or contact David Trapnell of Appreciating Talent at david@appreciatingtalent.com.au quoting reference DT4035701
About us: Appreciating Talent is a specialist recruitment firm, created and owned by a small group of Sydney's most successful and longest-serving Accounting & Finance recruitment professionals. Between us we have over 100 years of in-depth market knowledge and networks across Sydney, covering the entire Commercial Accounting market from CFO's down to Accounts Payable officers, and everything in between. Knowledge is our trade, and we differ through our service.
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