Finance Manager

About the client:

We’re working with a growing, Private Equity-backed healthcare organisation that is continuing to grow and expand.

The business is undergoing a significant transformation, with a new leadership team, continued growth, and a clear agenda to strengthen its finance function. This is a fast-moving environment with plenty of room for improvement, offering the right person the opportunity to make a genuine impact on how finance operates.

About the role:

Reporting to the Financial Controller, this newly created Finance Manager role will own the core financial accounting function and help build stronger processes, controls, and reporting across the organisation.

This is a hands-on accounting role. The immediate priority is to get the foundations right: improve month-end, strengthen balance sheet controls, resolve accounting issues, and make better use of the finance systems.

You’ll lead the financial accounting function supported by a Senior Accountant and oversee an offshore Accounts Payable team, with responsibilities including:

• Drive transformation through systems and process improvements.
• Lead month-end close and improve the accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.
• Own balance sheet integrity, reconciliations, journals, accruals and financial controls.
• Review management reporting and investigate variances and accounting issues.
• Oversee the Accounts Payable function and improve processes, controls and supplier reconciliations.
• Review complex payroll accounting, journals, accruals and reconciliations.
• Identify weaknesses across systems and processes, particularly within NetSuite and payroll.
• Support audit, statutory and compliance requirements.
• Coach and develop the financial accounting team.

There is a significant improvement agenda ahead. Success will mean creating a finance function that produces accurate, reliable information quickly and gives the wider business confidence in the numbers.

About You:

You’re a qualified CA or CPA with strong financial accounting experience and the ability to operate effectively in a changing environment.

You may already be a Finance Manager, or an experienced Senior Financial Accountant ready to step into your first management role.

You will bring:

• Strong technical accounting skills across month-end, balance sheet management and financial reporting.
• Experience within a reasonably complex or high-volume operating environment.
• Practical exposure to payroll accounting, including reviewing payroll journals and reconciliations.
• Experience managing or overseeing Accounts Payable.
• Confidence identifying accounting, control and process issues and working through them to resolution.
• Strong systems capability, with NetSuite experience advantageous.
• A proactive, hands-on approach and the resilience to work through an environment where not everything is already documented or established.

Prior experience in a PE environment is advantageous. Healthcare industry or NDIS experience would be useful but isn’t essential. Experience in other labour-intensive sectors such as retail, staffing, logistics, facilities management or similar environments could translate well.

What's on offer

• Newly created role with the opportunity to help reshape the finance function.
• Direct exposure to an experienced Financial Controller and senior leadership team.
• Hybrid working arrangement of three days in the office and two from home.
• $140k + Superannuation.

Next Steps

If this sounds like the right role for you, please apply online today!