22 Oct
|
Recruitmark
|
Southern Sydney
22 Oct
Recruitmark
Southern Sydney
About the Company:
Recruitmark is partnered with a globally recognised business advisory and consulting organisation supporting thousands of family-owned businesses across multiple countries. With a solid international presence and a purpose-led model reinvesting profits into education and charitable initiatives, the organisation operates a unique ecosystem that combines consulting, procurement partnerships, and large-scale social impact programs across education, emergency relief, and community development worldwide, underpinned by a long-term commitment to sustainable growth and values-driven leadership.
About the Role:
This Finance Transformation Lead establishes the financial foundations, governance framework and operating model for a newly formed global consolidated group. Reporting to the Global Head of Corporate Services, it combines strategic influence with hands-on technical leadership, spanning consolidation, treasury, systems and the transition to general purpose financial statements. A high-impact opportunity to shape a global finance function from day one.
The role is based in Sydney Olympic Park.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establishing the Group’s financial structure, intercompany frameworks and consolidation processes from the ground up
- Writing technical position papers and defining the Group’s consolidation approach for sign-off by the external auditor
- Delivering the first set of GPFS, including opening balance sheet, comparatives and transition reconciliations,
ready for the 1 January 2027 reporting period
- Scoping and standing up the finance shared services model, from business case through to go-live
- Working alongside FP&A; to build reliable Group and entity-level reporting that supports commercial decision-making
- Mentoring senior finance leaders and regional teams to lift consistency and capability across the function
- Briefing the Global Head of Corporate Services and Board on funding, capital allocation and governance matters
About You:
- 15+ years’ senior finance leadership experience, including CFO or Finance Director level, with a CA, CPA or equivalent qualification
- Proven success leading enterprise finance transformation, governance, controls and operating model implementation
- Highly technical accounting expertise in AASB, group consolidation, intercompany accounting and financial statement preparation
- Experience leading a first-time move to general purpose financial statements or a comparable large reporting change
- Experience designing and delivering a shared services or finance operating model
- Strong track record partnering with Boards, Audit & Risk Committees and Executive teams, plus coaching senior finance leaders
- Hands-on capability: able to personally prepare consolidation workings, technical papers and financial statements, not just direct others
**Applicants must be Australian/New Zealand citizens or have Permanent Residency.
📌 Finance Transformation Lead (12-month contract) (Southern Sydney)
🏢 Recruitmark
📍 Southern Sydney