About Us National Intermodal is a Government Business Enterprise, wholly owned by the Commonwealth of Australia, building the intermodal precincts that will reshape how goods move along Australia’s east coast. It’s infrastructure with a purpose: better, more sustainable supply chains that ultimately improve the way communities access the things they need.

Behind that mission is a tight-knit team of engineering, rail, infrastructure and logistics specialists who think long-term and execute with precision.

About The Role National Intermodal is seeking a General Manager Finance – Delivery based in our Sydney CBD office. Reporting to the Executive General Manager, Delivery, with a dual reporting line to the Chief Financial Officer, you will provide commercial and financial leadership across our project delivery portfolio and into operations.

Beveridge, our Victorian precinct, will be your initial focus, but the role goes well beyond a single project. You’ll help shape how National Intermodal grows from a business that builds precincts into one that runs them, setting the financial foundations, controls and operating disciplines that make each transition productive, effective and ready from day one. Across delivery and operations, you’ll connect scope, schedules, costs and commitments with financial outcomes, so the business can make sound decisions on investment, procurement, contracts and risk.

This role needs a commercially astute finance leader with energy, passion and drive: someone who is comfortable working alongside project and operational teams, challenges assumptions with confidence, and wants to leave a lasting mark on nationally significant infrastructure.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Partnering with the EGM Delivery, project leaders and operational teams as a trusted commercial advisor.



You’ll bring insight and challenge to delivery strategies, procurement options, business cases, contract terms, variations and claims.
- Strengthening project controls across the delivery portfolio, covering approved budgets, commitments, contingencies, cost to complete and anticipated final costs. You’ll identify cost and schedule pressures early and drive corrective action.
- Leading Delivery’s budgets, forecasts and long-range plans, linking capital expenditure, operating costs, cash flows and lifecycle requirements to delivery schedules and procurement strategies.
- Leading Delivery reporting for the Delivery Leadership Team and Project Executive Boards, and providing Delivery inputs to Senior Leadership Team, Board, Audit & Risk Committee and shareholder reporting.
- Supporting project governance, stage-gate reviews and investment approvals, and providing project cash flow and funding inputs for capital planning, joint venture and shareholder processes.
- Preparing the business for operations as precincts come into service, including operating budgets, financial models, operating arrangements, and the processes and controls needed from day one.
- Leading and developing a high-performing team, and acting as Delivery’s finance interface with Corporate Finance on ERP, systems, monthly reporting, budgeting and forecasting, corporate planning, funding requests, finance systems and AI –enabled improvement.

About You

- Tertiary qualification in Finance, Accounting, Commerce,



Economics or a related discipline, with CA or CPA.
- Strategic and commercially astute, you shape commercial strategy and executive decision-making while staying close enough to the detail to know what’s really driving the numbers.
- Significant senior commercial finance leadership experience in project-based environments such as infrastructure, construction, engineering or resources.
- Hands-on oversight of finance and project controls for a major project delivery portfolio. You understand how cost, schedule, scope and risk connect, and how to hold projects to approved parameters.
- Strong grasp of procurement, contract economics, variations, claims and commercial risk.
- A proven background working with joint ventures, government stakeholders and complex commercial arrangements.
- Experience transitioning infrastructure assets from construction into operations is highly regarded.
- A business partner with energy, passion and drive. You build trust quickly with executives, project leaders and operational teams, and work effectively across a dual reporting line.
- Proven track record of improving project reporting, financial planning systems and processes, including business readiness and change management, with a curiosity about how analytics and AI can sharpen project insight.
- A clear and compelling communicator who turns complex project and financial information into sharp, decision-ready insight for executives and the Board.

At National Intermodal, we are committed to our people and their development. If you're a commercial finance leader who wants to help deliver the infrastructure that will move the nation's freight for generations, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and be part of the National Intermodal team.

📌 General Manager Finance – Delivery (Sydney)
🏢 National Intermodal
📍 Sydney