The Organisation
Most people in Brisbane know this organisation’s name and what it stands for. It’s a long-established, values-led organisation that has served the community for generations across aged care and community services. Right now it’s also one of the more ambitious finance environments on the northside.

A new finance leadership team has spent the last year rebuilding how finance works. The old model had generalists doing everything. It has been replaced with clear lanes: a financial accounting team looks after compliance and reporting, and an FP&A; team partners with the business. The aim is for finance to be the team operators call before they make a decision, not the one that sends them a spreadsheet afterwards.

This isn’t month-end processing with a business partnering title. The core statutory and technical accounting sits with a separate team, so most of your time goes into understanding the numbers and helping the business act on them. The previous incumbent’s processes are fully documented, so you’ll start with a clean handover.

The Role
You’ll be the Management Accountant for one of the organisation’s largest divisions. It covers retirement living and a range of aged care services. You’ll work closely with your Lead Business Partner and the managers running services on the ground.

To be explicit about what this role is: it isn’t month-end processing with a business partnering title. Depreciation, leases and statutory work sit with a separate team. Your time goes into understanding the numbers and helping the business act on them. The previous incumbent’s processes are fully documented,



so you’ll start with a clean handover rather than a mess to untangle.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Monthly performance reporting, including variance analysis, KPIs, trend analysis and commentary that operators can act on
- Budgets, rolling forecasts and financial modelling for your division
- Workforce cost analysis, which is the biggest lever in any care business
- Scenario modelling and cost-benefit analysis to support business planning and investment decisions
- Making sure grants, client funding and service lines are coded correctly, and supporting revenue recognition and claims validation
- Monitoring unclaimed revenue and billing exceptions, so money isn’t left on the table
- Month-end, accruals and minor asset coding for your division
- Lifting financial literacy across the business so managers understand and own their numbers
- Improving processes, systems and SOPs, including working with the data team to automate manual reporting

About You
You’re a management accountant with a personality. You read a P&L; and immediately want to know why a number moved, and you can explain the answer to a site manager or a CEO in plain English. You don’t wait to be told what to improve.

Attitude, ambition and initiative matter most here. You’ll need a solid accounting foundation,



but the team will train you in the parts of the role you haven’t done before. They want a go-getter who challenges the status quo, makes things better and leaves the role in better shape than they found it.

Your Experience

- 3 to 4+ years in management accounting. A mix of business services and commerce is welcome, but commercial experience is key.
- CA or CPA, completed or in progress
- Confidence presenting numbers to non-finance leaders and people across the business
- Advanced Excel and experience with ERP and reporting tools. TechnologyOne or Power BI is a bonus.
- Curiosity and a real drive to improve how things are done
- Aged care, government-funded or not-for-profit experience is a bonus, not a requirement

What’s on Offer

- $110,000 + super, plus not-for-profit salary packaging worth roughly $10,000 a year. Starting now can mean extra packaging value across two FBT years.
- A rostered day off every fortnight, if you want it
- Flexible start and finish times, with 3 days in the office and 2 from home
- Free on-site parking (first in, best dressed)
- A real development path, with mentoring from a senior business partner and a leadership team invested in building capability
- A down-to-earth team in an organisation where people stay for years, which makes it an excellent place to build your business partnering skills
- Work where better financial decisions lead to better care for real people

Apply Now
Interviews are taking place next week. Apply now, or call Reggie van Driel at Cadence Connect on 04•• ••• 530 for a confidential chat.

📌 Management Accountant (Brisbane)
🏢 Cadence Connect
📍 Brisbane