- Accounting
- Accountant - Chartered / CPA
- Brisbane
- Permanent / Full Time

15/10/2026

- Recruiting for a CA/CPA that is; ambitious, curious and outgoing!
- Own month end, management packs, budgets, audit, process automation.
- Partner with site and regional managers across an AU and NZ portfolio.

Why You Should Apply

As recruiters this company is one of our dream clients. We know them well, we love representing them, know their culture well and value being a part of their exciting journey.

This is a private equity backed group that has grown quickly through acquisition, with the acquisition run pausing early next year to consolidate what has been bought. The directors and SLT have all worked for large Global businesses and bring energy, enthusiasm with technical rigour and commercial exposure ready to be imparted onto the team.

It has a startup feel with structure and capital behind it. The portfolio spans multiple sites and brands across Australia and New Zealand, and the systems environment is mid build, with Sage Intacct in place and reporting still being shaped around how the business has grown. The team has grown as well and there is a wealth of experience across your peer / colleague group; ex Big 4 Auditors, accountants who have been in PE backed firms and those who come from Fund Management or FP&A; teams.

What the business wants from this hire is not another pair of hands on the close. It wants someone who can sit in front of operational managers, senior leadership and external stakeholders, explain what the numbers are telling them and why it matters. The reporting matters because of what the business does with it, and that only happens if the person producing it is in the conversation.

If you are at the point where doing the work well is no longer the challenge, and the next thing you want is people, stakeholders and process, this is worth your attention.

The Prospect

Reporting to the Financial Controller and Head of Operational Finance, with one accountant reporting to you, you will run operational accounting for your portfolio and sit between finance and the operations teams.



The role exists to produce three things: a clean and timely month end, preparation, presentation and ownership of management packs that budget owners can act on, and a better process at the end of each quarter than at the start of it.

Half of this job happens outside the finance team. You will be talking to site and regional managers about performance, margin and cost, often with people who do not read a P&L; for a living, and the value you add is in how clearly you can explain it and how quickly they trust you.

The environment is agile with structure built but adapting as strategy changes so you will be shaping how things are done rather than inheriting a finished playbook. If you want a defined lane, a settled process map and a quiet desk, this is not the role.

What You’ll Do
The role splits across month end and reporting, business partnering with operational managers, supervision of one accountant, and process improvement, with the balance shifting through the month.

- Own the full month end process, from close through to reconciliations and reporting
- Prepare management packs with commentary on variances, movements, margin and risk
- Partner with site, regional and budget owners on performance, forecasts and P&L; queries
- Review the accountant’s work and build their technical and commercial capability
- Oversee bank reconciliations, customer and supplier ledgers and intercompany transactions
- Support compliance and statutory lodgements alongside the Financial Controller
- Lead your part of the year end audit process alongside the external audit team
- Improve processes as you go, including where systems and AI can take work off the team

Who You Are




We think someone who has a good background in accounting but wants more; more commercial exposure, more engagement with the team and more ownership of finance will absolutely thrive!

You are comfortable in a room with people who are not accountants, you say what the numbers mean rather than what they are, and you build working relationships quickly across a business that is spread across ANZ. Sitting underneath that is a real technical foundation, because month end delivery is still part of your role and assisting your direct report in their journey sometimes means rolling up your sleeves and jumping in to help.

- Confident communicator, credible in a complex business conversation from week one
- Able to translate financial results into plain English for non finance stakeholders
- Experience reviewing, mentoring or developing a junior accountant
- Proactive about process, you spot the inefficiency and go and fix it rather than flag it
- Strong management and financial accounting background with consistent month end delivery
- At least four to five years delivering quality month end reporting
- Comfortable holding competing priorities in a business that is still building
- Strong Excel
- CA or CPA qualified, advantageous
- Multi-site or multi-entity experience, advantageous
- Sage Intacct experience, advantageous
- Interest in AI and where it can take work off a finance team, advantageous

The Offer

An awesome team culture in a dynamic environment that is led by an EXCO who know what good global standards look like but have found ways to be efficient.

$125k base + super, with working from home flexibility. You walk away from this role with a supervisory record, a close you own end to end, a portfolio of operational stakeholders who rely on you, and the experience of building a finance process inside a private equity backed group rather than maintaining someone else’s.

How to Apply

Apply through this advert, or contact Reggie van Driel at [email protected]. All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence.

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