Strategic finance across a portfolio of growing Australian companies: the forecasts, the models and the decisions their founders run on. This role is about understanding business models, telling the story in the numbers, and working with founders so they know they are in safe hands. And the seat grows with you: Strategic Finance Manager today, Client CFO as your portfolio matures.
About Scale Suite
Scale Suite is on a mission to build the full-stack finance function for growing Australian businesses: daily finance operations, reporting and analysis, and CFO-level strategy, delivered as one embedded team. Finance is the core, and we mould around each client, with complementary HR services and the operational tasks that sit alongside finance. Clients plug us in and get a complete finance function without hiring one.
We are not an accounting practice. No timesheets, no charge-out rates, no partner pyramid. AI is in daily use across the team, deeper automation is around the corner, and an engineering team is coming on board in the near future to build it.
Our clients are doing seriously interesting things. On any given week we might be steadying a SaaS scale-up's cash flow, standing up a consumer brand's US entity, or building the numbers behind a multi-million dollar capital raise. None of that is hypothetical, it is all recent work. And this role exists because the work is already here: new clients land every month and demand is ahead of us.
The work
You own strategic finance for a portfolio of clients, and the portfolio spans a real range: founder-run businesses getting their first proper finance function through to companies raising capital, mid deal or expanding overseas. The work moves with them. You get inside each client's business model, restructure their numbers into monthly reporting built around how their business actually runs, and tell the story behind the results so founders always know where they stand.
Then the rest: forecasting, cash flow strategy, pricing and unit economics, and the big moments. Recent examples, all real: negotiating financing terms, setting budgets and reporting against them, standing up a US subsidiary's finance function end to end, and assisting sell-side due diligence on a private equity deal. You stay in tune with the whole portfolio, spotting what is moving before clients ask. You are the senior mind in the room and you do real work with your own hands, alongside an analyst team that is seriously good at theirs.
Who we're after
- Right now you might be a senior financial analyst, an FP&A or commercial finance gun, a business advisory senior or manager in practice, a startup finance lead, or a corporate finance and deals professional.
- CA, CPA, CFA or none of the above. Practice, corporate and deals backgrounds all translate here.
- A modeller at heart. You can build a three-way forecast from a blank sheet and defend every assumption in it.
- You can take a messy set of numbers and rebuild them into monthly reporting a founder actually reads.
- Sharp on unit economics. Margins, payback, cash conversion, pricing: you know which numbers actually run a business and what to do when they move.
- Plain-speaking and commercial. Founders trust you fast because you talk about their business, not just their numbers.
- You use AI as a matter of course and you move fast. Days-not-weeks turnaround is normal here.
- Comfortable being hands-on without a big team around you, and zero time for office politics.
What this isn't
Not a compliance seat. BAS, payroll and month-end live with our delivery team; you get the analysis, the strategy and the room. And not a timesheet factory.
The offer
- Above market pay, and we will beat your current package for the right person.
- Remote first, from anywhere in Australia.
- Work directly with the founder, and with the founders and CEOs of the businesses we serve.
- A path onto our profit share scheme as your portfolio grows. We are looking for someone to build this with us over years, not a gig between gigs.
- Real responsibility and autonomy early, a flat structure where good ideas win, and growth that is real and fast.