Job Description

Role Highlights: Reo Group Executive Search has been exclusively retained to appoint an exceptional finance executive to a confidential Divisional CFO role with a well-established global organisation. This is a strategically significant appointment, offering broad exposure across financial planning, data and performance insights, and finance transformation. The successful candidate will play a lead role in shaping the next generation of finance capability, partnering closely with senior stakeholders across the business.

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Role Overview

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As Divisional CFO, you will lead the strategic evolution of the finance function – reshaping the finance operating model for the future, upgrading the budgeting and forecasting cycle, and building a data lake and performance insights capability to drive business performance. You will work closely with executive leadership to translate data into commercial decision-making and support the organisation's next phase of growth.

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Financial control, tax, treasury, governance and reporting remain the foundation of this role, but they are not its focus. This is a forward-looking, transformation-oriented appointment for a finance leader who wants to build capability, not simply maintain it.

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Responsibilities

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Finance for the Future

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- Lead the redesign of the finance operating model, ways of working and technology enablement across the function.
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- Drive the transition to a modern, scalable operating model, including evaluating shared services and outsourcing options.
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Budgeting & Forecasting

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- Redesign and upgrade the annual budgeting cycle and rolling forecast process to improve speed, accuracy and business relevance.
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- Partner with divisional leaders to embed a more dynamic, insight-led planning cycle.
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Data & Performance Insights

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- Build a data lake and performance insights capability that connects operational and financial data to support better decisions.
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- Translate data into insight, working closely with the executive team to drive business performance.
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Business Partnering

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- Partner with divisional and executive leadership to translate insights into action, supporting growth and performance improvement.
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- Act as a trusted commercial adviser to the business, influencing decisions beyond the finance function.
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Leadership

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- Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing finance team.
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- Build strong relationships across the finance function and broader leadership team.
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Foundational Expertise

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- Maintain strong financial control, governance and statutory reporting as the bedrock of a well-run finance function.
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- Oversee tax, treasury and compliance obligations across the business.
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Candidate Profile

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You are an experienced finance executive with a track record of leading finance transformation and building data-driven performance capability within a complex, multi-entity organisation. You bring strong commercial acumen, the ability to influence senior stakeholders, and experience modernising budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes.

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A strong grounding in financial control, tax, treasury and governance is expected as the foundation of your background – but this role is about what you build next, not what you maintain. Experience with data infrastructure, analytics platforms and finance operating model change will be highly regarded.

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This organisation is recognised for its scale, strong market position and commitment to excellence. You'll join a team-oriented leadership team and have the opportunity to influence strategic outcomes while modernising a high-performing finance function. Grow your career – broaden your business acumen in a key leadership role.

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- Divisional CFO role within a large global organisation.
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- Broad exposure across finance transformation, data strategy and business performance.
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- Competitive executive remuneration package, including STI and LTI.
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📌 Divisional CFO (Queensland)
🏢 Reo Recruitment
📍 Queensland