Sydney | Senior Finance Leadership Opportunity

Our client is a growing and well-established financial services business with a diversified portfolio spanning lending, investment and asset management activities.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Finance Manager to join the finance leadership team and take responsibility for the end-to-end financial oversight of a key business division, with the opportunity to progressively broaden their remit across the wider Group.

This is a senior role suited to an experienced finance professional who combines strong technical accounting capability with commercial judgement, stakeholder management and leadership skills.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Group Head of Finance, the Senior Finance Manager will play a key role in ensuring robust financial governance, reporting and control across the business.

The role will work closely with senior executives and other members of the finance leadership team, providing financial insight and advice across commercial, funding, growth and strategic initiatives.

As the Group continues to grow, there is significant scope for the successful candidate to progressively assume broader responsibilities across areas such as group consolidation, financial control, fund accounting, corporate entities and other finance functions.

Key Responsibilities

- Take ownership of the quality, integrity and timeliness of financial outcomes across a key business division and associated entities.
- Provide senior-level financial leadership and commercial business partnering to executives and senior stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted adviser on financial, commercial and strategic matters.
- Lead the financial oversight of complex trust, funding and securitisation structures.
- Provide technical accounting guidance and resolve complex accounting matters.
- Lead audit planning, issue resolution and liaison with external auditors and advisers.




- Provide financial input into new and existing funding and transaction structures.
- Oversee regulatory and statutory reporting requirements.
- Prepare and present financial analysis and reporting to senior management, boards and committees.
- Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisers, trustees, funders and other external stakeholders.
- Lead, develop and mentor finance team members, including offshore resources.
- Drive improvements in financial processes, systems, controls and automation.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy and scalability across the finance function.
- Work closely with the Group Head of Finance and CFO on broader finance initiatives and projects.
- Progressively take on additional responsibilities across the wider Group as demonstrated capability develops.

About You

We are seeking a CA/CPA-qualified finance professional with significant experience in a complex financial services, lending, funds management or similarly regulated environment.

You will ideally have:

- 8+ years' experience across accounting and finance, with experience operating at a senior level.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and sound professional judgement.
- Experience working with complex entities, trusts, funding structures or securitisation vehicles.
- A strong understanding of financial controls, governance and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to work with and influence senior executives.
- Strong commercial acumen and an ability to translate financial information into meaningful business insights.
- Experience leading and developing finance teams.
- A track record of improving processes and implementing robust financial controls.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Experience within lending, private credit, asset management, funds management, securitisation or broader financial services would be highly regarded.

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📌 Senior Finance Manager (New South Wales)
🏢 Platinum Pacific Partners
📍 New South Wales