Care taker FC opportunity, supporting CFO and oversight of all financial compliance, reporting, shared services.
Your 6 Month Engagement Details
Commencement as soon as possible, work through to December then enjoy your Perth summer, returning to market during peak hiring season. Perfect!
Your New Company
Enjoy working in a mature medium sized commercial enterprise in a consumer facing industry. The Company offers generous work from home options, a collegiate team environment, approachable - open door management policy from top to bottom, employs really good people, and systems and processes work like they should! Just a good, solid, well run company.
Your New Role
Coming in as a caretaker, you keep the group financial controller role ticking over, reporting directly to the CFO, and work peer to the FP&A manager. (Traditional Finance Team Structure). Under your remit will come all financial reporting, compliance, and shared services (transactional finance) teams. Your role is that of a leader, mentor, guide and support, you are not expected to be hands on with the financials (exception of board reports, management reports, and technical accounting anomalies requiring higher level expertise).
Key Deliverables
- Engage the team, resulting in keeping the team in tact (minimizing turnover)
- Deliver timely and accurate year end accounts
- Deliver a clean audit, with no material weaknesses
- Play well with others internally and externally
- Set the example of what a quality senior leader looks & acts like in a highly diverse, people focused organisation.
- Systems - always room for improvement, if you see something to improve upon, action it!
- Ongoing Risk Management
- Support FP&A Manager with budgeting, planning, forecasting, finance strategy as requested.
- Deliver on ad-hoc requests from the business and executive leaders
Your Profile & Prior Experience
As a caretaker role where you will hit the ground running, you've performed this role previously (and well) in the past. You are a seasoned leader, having managed teams of 10+ as a controller/finance manager, in a centralized shared services environment with some complexity. Your former staff enjoyed working for you so much, you keep in contact and support them even now that you don't work together, tears were probably cried when you left your last jobs because you made that much of an impact on others. Given the experience within your immediate team, you will have 15+ years experience, be a qualified CA/CPA with superior technical accounting experience paired with the empathy and EQ to support a high performing team.
Your Application
To ensure a suitable handover from the incumbent, the sooner you start the cleaner the transition. We also ask you are able to commit fully to the full 6 month contract. For immediate consideration, if you fit the desired profile as detailed above, you may contact Eric Macias on 08 6141 3200 after you've submitted your application (so we can discuss it on the phone), to determine the fit. Please apply ASAP, this is an urgent requirement with potentially immediate start. The position will be offered on a fixed term, salaried contract, inclusive of pro rata annual leave entitlements, sick days, etc. Existing work rights in Australia are essential for consideration. Ideally you can commence no later than Mid June, earlier is better.
About Macias Consulting
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