Finance Manager - 12 month fixed term contractNew

Location: Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney Australia - Hybrid

Who Are We?

Airlock Digital is the global leader in application control and allowlisting, providing cutting-edge solutions that protect organizations worldwide from cyber threats. Our innovative platform allows businesses to "Allow what you trust. Prevent what you don't," helping them safeguard critical systems with confidence. With a deep understanding of the operational challenges in cybersecurity and extensive industry experience, Airlock Digital's mission is to make allowlisting accessible, scalable, and straightforward for all users.

We are expanding rapidly across Australia, North America, and EMEA to support our growing global customer base. Our team members are a bunch of awesome humans, who are friendly, collaborative and humble rock stars - we work hard and are always willing to help each other out.

What We Are Looking For:

Airlock Digital is a growing, private equity-backed cybersecurity software business with expanding international operations. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Group Finance Manager will take ownership of delivering an accurate, timely month-end close and effective day-to-day finance operations across the group on a 12 month fixed term contract.

This hands-on role combines technical accounting, practical problem-solving and team leadership. You will manage AP and AR, guide the Financial Accountant’s close activities and deliver reliable financial information that supports business decisions. During this maternity cover assignment, you will also contribute to ERP implementation and agreed process improvements, helping strengthen how finance operates as Airlock scales.





Key Responsibilities:

Financial reporting and month-end close

- Manage the general ledger and month-end close across AU, US and other entities as established, completing the close by business day 5.
- Prepare journals and review and post journals prepared by others, ensuring complete accruals, appropriate coding and accurate accounting treatment.
- Prepare revenue recognition calculations, deferred revenue reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations and intercompany reconciliations.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting and provide entity reporting and supporting inputs for group reporting.
- Support group consolidation processes as introduced following ERP implementation.
- Review financial results, investigate variances and provide clear commentary on key movements.
- Coordinate AP, AR and other close inputs, resolving issues and escalating dependencies early.

Finance operations and cash flow

- Oversee global billing, collections, accounts payable, employee expenses and corporate card processes.
- Review payment runs for accuracy, supporting documentation and required approvals before submission to authorised bank approvers.
- Monitor outstanding receivables and payables, ensuring timely follow-up.




- Maintain cash flow forecasts and support the Group Financial Controller in managing liquidity and payment priorities.
- Ensure transactional processes are accurate, efficient and supported by explicit ownership and service expectations.

Payroll and commissions

- Review payroll calculations and supporting inputs, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies.
- Prepare commission calculations in accordance with approved incentive plans and reconcile amounts to supporting data.
- Submit commission calculations to the Group Financial Controller for review and approval before inclusion in payroll.
- Coordinate approved commission amounts for payroll processing and maintain supporting calculation records.

Compliance audit and controls

- Support the Global Audit, Tax and Compliance Manager with tax and statutory compliance requirements across relevant entities.
- Prepare reconciliations, supporting schedules and responses to internal and external audit queries.
- Maintain effective financial controls, including approval workflows, payment controls and appropriate segregation of duties.
- Ensure accounting records and supporting documentation are complete and maintained in accordance with applicable standards and company policies.

Budgeting and forecasting

- Support annual budgeting, financial forecasting and relevant business analysis.
- Monitor performance against budget and investigate significant variances.
- Provide financial analysis and support for ad hoc projects and business decisions.

Finance systems and process improvement

- Support the maintenance and improvement of finance system configurations, workflows and integrations.
- Identify and implement agreed

📌 Finance Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Airlock Digital
📍 Melbourne