Group Finance Manager

Job description

**About Our Client** Our client is a large multi entity organisation operating across a diverse range of consumer facing sites nationally. With ambitious growth plans and a strong track record of success, they are looking for an experienced Finance Manager to help strengthen their group reporting function. Based in South Melbourne, this role sits with the core function of the business. **Benefits** - Access to and discounts on hundreds of health, fitness and leisure venues nationally, plus savings across a wider group of well known brands - Everyday discounts and savings at over 9,000 locations through the company's employee benefits platform, covering major retailers, food delivery, travel and entertainment - Salary packaging and novated leasing options available - Monthly company lunch and regular onsite perks including tea and coffee, fitness groups, charity days and seasonal celebrations - Access to professional development, leadership and internal growth pathway programs - Employee Assistance Program for wellbeing support - Paid parental leave - Free flu vaccinations and first aid certification - Annual remuneration reviews **About the Role** Reporting to the Group CFO, this is a technically demanding, individual contributor role at the centre of the organisation's financial reporting. While the role sits close to senior leadership and offers exposure to the executive team and founder, the day to day is genuinely hands on, BAU focused work: consolidations, reconciliations and the detail that keeps the numbers right. It suits someone who is comfortable rolling up their sleeves and who brings both technical rigour and the emotional intelligence to work well across a relationship driven business. **What You'll Be Doing** - Leading the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual statutory reports, and managing group consolidations end to end - Maintaining reconciliations and audit ready documentation across the group - Safeguarding the integrity of ledger transactions, resolving accounting issues and strengthening controls and governance - Coordinating audits, identifying control gaps and driving improvements to support statutory obligations - Taking ownership of complex issues, getting to the root cause and following through to a sustainable fix - Building trusted relationships with the CFO, executive team and senior stakeholders, knowing when to advocate for change and when to work within established ways of doing things **What Success Looks Like** Reporting that stands up to scrutiny, consolidations that run smoothly, clean audit outcomes, controls that hold, and a CFO who can rely on you to see things through. **What We're Looking For** - Technically strong, ideally with a Big 4 audit background - CA or CPA qualified (or equivalent), with solid experience across statutory reporting, group consolidations and external audit management - A track record working within complex, multi entity organisations - Strong stakeholder engagement skills and genuine emotional intelligence, with the ability to read the room and adapt your approach across a range of personalities and seniority levels - Internal audit experience would be highly regarded **Why Apply** Join a growing, well established business at a genuinely pivotal time, in a role offering real exposure to senior leadership while you build deep technical expertise in a hands on, high trust environment.