Finance Manager

This is for someone who wants to see the whole picture, not just their part of it.
Our client is an established, multi-brand consumer business spanning retail, manufacturing and wholesale distribution, backed by a Melbourne based, mid-market private equity firm. Each brand runs its own finance team and prepares its own numbers.

This role sits at the centre of it, bringing those numbers together for the CEO and the board.

The Role

You bring together the Group's monthly close, consolidation, and reporting cycle.
Own the Group's monthly close and consolidation, including the management accounts for a number of minor and non-trading entities
Compile the monthly board pack across all brands
Work with the CEO and brand CFOs to build the Group budget, and consolidate the monthly forecasts
Maintain the consolidated cash flow forecast
Manage tax compliance and statutory lodgements, and coordinate the annual audit
Oversee the Group's cash position, process AP for the smaller entities, and approve payment files and fortnightly payroll
Work directly with brand finance teams on cross entity issues

Who We're Looking For

You are someone who can hold complexity across a group and still bring it back to one explicit number.




CA or CPA qualified
Experience consolidating multi entity results
Track record owning a fixed monthly close and reporting cycle
Sound working knowledge of Australian tax compliance
Experience managing an audit end to end
Experience in a manufacturing business with inventory, standard costing and production reporting (preferred)

And the non-negotiables: you interrogate numbers prepared by others until they hold up, you work well with finance teams who do not report to you, and you keep reporting accurate under deadline pressure.

What's on Offer
Close working relationship with the CEO, with regular exposure to the board and the private equity owner
Group wide scope across retail, manufacturing and wholesale
Ownership of consolidation, budgeting and reporting for the Group
An established, private equity backed business

If this is the kind of role you have been working towards, we would like to hear from you.
Additional information
Central finance role reporting directly to the CEO
Group wide scope across retail, manufacturing and wholesale
Full ownership of consolidation, budgeting and reporting

📌 Finance Manager Melbourne (Australia)
🏢 Wall Street
📍 Australia