- Direct report to Group CFO, with three direct reports and real autonomy from day one
- Multi-brand manufacturing group undergoing ERP transition

About the Company
A well-established, privately owned business with a strong reputation in its sector. The organisation operates in manufacturing/production, supplying products to the building and construction industry. With continued growth and a system transformation underway, this is a business entering an exciting next phase.

About the Role
This is a costing-led commercial finance role, not a traditional financial accounting position. The business is looking for someone who can build genuine trust in the numbers - giving leadership, sales and production accurate, real-time visibility of margin by job, product line and customer. You'll take ownership of day-to-day finance operations, including partnering with the ELT and Operations, while managing a small team (accounts payable, accounts receivable and accounts admin).

Duties

- Own product and job costing across a fabrication/production environment - standard cost setting, BOM costing, labour and overhead absorption rates
- Track and report cost variances (material, labour, overhead) between standard and actual, working with operations to identify root causes
- Maintain inventory and WIP valuation - raw material, offcuts/scrap and finished goods - to ensure accurate COGS
- Run periodic stocktakes and reconcile physical to book, investigating discrepancies
- Analyse job/project profitability against quoted cost, feeding insights back into quoting and pricing
- Build costing models and margin reporting by product line, job and customer
- Partner with production and estimating to keep material rates, labour rates and overhead allocations current




- Run the monthly close (journals, accruals, reconciliations, variance commentary) and deliver clean numbers into group consolidation
- Prepare BAS/IAS and maintain debtor/creditor ledger integrity and cash flow forecasting
- Support year-end audit and statutory reporting alongside the group finance function
- Own costing within the ERP system and partner with the CFO on system and process improvement

Skills & Experience

- CA, CPA or CIMA/CMA qualified - or equivalent qualified-by-experience with a strong costing track record
- 4+ years in a costing or commercial finance role within manufacturing or fabrication (job costing or process costing)
- Strong cost accounting fundamentals: standard costing, variance analysis, BOM/routing, labour and overhead absorption, inventory/WIP valuation
- Comfortable owning a monthly close and preparing BAS/IAS
- Advanced Excel - complex formulas and reconciliation at scale
- Confident partnering directly with production and estimating teams, and translating numbers for non-finance stakeholders
- Right to work in Australia
- Desirable: ERP/MRP costing module experience, multi-entity or group consolidation exposure, prior involvement in an ERP implementation or system transition

Culture
You'll join a business that prides itself on quality and a hands-on, team-first culture. Several senior leaders across the group have grown internally, and this role sits close to leadership with genuine scope to shape how costing and margin reporting is done.

Advantages

- Direct exposure to the CFO and senior leadership, with a clear runway to take on more strategic scope over time
- Genuine variety - costing, commercial analysis, close, and team leadership
- Involvement in a live ERP transition, a strong addition to your technical toolkit

📌 Finance Manager | Building Materials | Costing | $170K (Queensland)
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📍 Queensland