Want to learn, grow and be mentored by a CFO who is invested in your development?
A key attraction of this career move is the opportunity to learn and develop from the Chief Financial Officer, who the role reports directly into. The Chief Financial Officer genuinely enjoys developing his team and he is looking for a motivated, capable person, who wants to learn and develop and progress to Finance Manager in the next year to two. From there, he is very comfortable with your career at the business continuing within the finance team – which will have further opportunities as the business rapidly expands - or perhaps you may choose to move into a more operational direction. Either way, you will have his support. The Chief Financial Officer is well positioned to assist in your development. While still early on his career, he has a blue-chip employer background spanning first tier chartered and large corporates.
About the business
Our client is a highly successful mid-sized business with a strong record of growth. The business continues to expand through organic growth and acquisitions that add real synergy and capability. As the business grows, so does the opportunity for the people who help steer it. The business is based in the SE suburbs.
How the role of Senior Management Accountant unfolds
1. Get the foundations right. You'll start by assisting the CFO to clean up and tighten the accounts. That means reconciliations, balance sheet clarity,
month-end discipline and inventory accounting. It's hands-on work that gives you a thorough understanding of how the Group really operates, with the Chief Financial Officer beside you.
2. Automate the routine with AI. Once the foundations are solid, you'll help use AI to automate reconciliations and core financial accounting. We want this to be a genuine rethink of how finance works, and you'll have a real say in how it's done.
3. Become a true business partner. With the manual workload reduced, your time shifts to business partnering, commercial analysis and reporting. You'll work in office with operations, sales, projects and warehousing to turn the numbers into decisions. Over time, you'll build budgets, forecasts, models and business cases for the executive team. As afore mentioned, quick progression into Finance Manager and IIC of the team is planned.
Key projects
- Adoption and roll out of AI
- ERP implementation
- Due diligence (valuations etc) of potential acquisitions
- Integration of acquisitions
- Changing of banks
- Improvement of process and control and cleanup of the G/L
- Development of commercial reporting packs
About you
- Dedicated, curious and hungry to learn, including how AI can transform finance work
- A confident communicator who enjoys working with non-finance colleagues
- Chartered background and / or industry experience
- CPA / CA or part qualified