About the Company

Our client is a high growth, private equity backed business operating in the renewable energy and battery storage sector, one of the most active and significant spaces in the current energy transition. Growth has been rapid, and the commercial side of the business is performing well.

What has not kept pace is the finance function. Like many fast scaling businesses, the operational plumbing behind the numbers has been outgrown by the business itself. There is now a clear and well supported mandate from the board and investors to professionalise finance from the ground up, and the resourcing and appetite to do it properly. This is not a business in distress. It is a business with real momentum that needs its finance infrastructure to catch up to its commercial success.

About the Role

This is a hands on, delivery focused Interim CFO mandate. It is not a reporting or oversight role. You will be expected to get into the detail, understand exactly how money moves through the business today, and redesign and implement the systems, controls, and processes required to support a scaling operation.

To give one practical example of the type of gap you will be closing: incoming supplier invoices are currently processed manually, printed out, manually reconciled against the original purchase order, and queued for payment with no real system or automated control layer behind it. That is representative of the broader opportunity across the finance function, spanning accounts payable, purchase order and invoice matching, payment workflows, cash flow visibility,



and management reporting.

You will be joining at a genuinely exciting inflection point, working closely with the founders, the leadership team, and the PE investor group, with strong backing and real authority to drive change rather than simply recommend it.

This role begins as an interim engagement, structured on a contracting basis, with a clear a pathway to a permanent CFO appointment for the right person. The company is actively looking for someone who wants to build something and stay, not just parachute in and hand over a report.

About You

You are an experienced, hands on finance leader with a track record of leading finance transformation inside fast paced, high growth businesses, ideally with exposure to PE backed or founder led environments where speed and pragmatism matter as much as technical rigour.

You are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to redesign an AP process as you are presenting to a board or investor group. You have implemented finance systems and controls before, not just overseen them, and you understand how to balance building for scale with the practical realities of a business that is still moving fast.

You will be commercially sharp, low ego, and genuinely energised by fixing things rather than simply diagnosing them. Prior experience operating at CFO or senior finance leadership level is essential, along with a demonstrated ability to build credibility quickly with founders, investors, and operational teams alike.

This role is based in Box Hill, Melbourne.

📌 Interim CFO (Box Hill)
🏢 Arkadia Talent
📍 Box Hill