We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our Finance team to support the Corporate Functions to help achieve their financial goals over various time frames.

What this role is about?

The role serves as the principal contact between the Corporate Functions and the central Group Finance function, facilitating effective communication and ensuring alignment between the two.

Here's more of what you’ll work on:

Reporting (Month, HY and FY)

• Performance Monitoring: Review and analyse monthly financial activities for the Corporate Functions, including detailed assessments of month-to-date (MTD) and year-to-date (YTD) performance.
• Dashboard Reporting: Prepare and present monthly performance dashboards, highlighting key metrics, trends, and variances. Ensure reports are clear, accurate, and provide actionable insights.
• Accruals & adjustments: Review and approve accruals or adjustments to ensure that financial statements reflect the true economic condition.
• Insights: Provide meaningful insights and recommendations based on financial analysis to drive better business performance.

Decision Support

• Partner the Corporate Functions leadership team with financial decision-making by providing relevant data, analysis, and recommendations.
• Build and maintain financial models, e.g. FTE resource model, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and other ad-hoc financial analytical activities as required.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives within the Business Unit Finance team. Focus on enhancing productivity, efficiency, and the overall effectiveness of financial processes.

Forecasting & Budgeting

• Review budget/forecast models for the BU, ensuring they reflect all financial aspects including revenue, expenses, and capital expenditures.
• Ensure driver-based assumptions are signed-off by the BU, and offer insights into the status of budget submissions, highlighting areas of opportunities and risks.
• Provide the Corporate Functions with reporting on forecast submissions, including status against target. Offer analysis and insight to support the forecast, helping stakeholders understand the implications of forecasted results.

Team Lead Functions

• Assist and provide guidance to the Finance Business Partner with day-to-day activities
• Review and provide oversight of the team’s workflow and new initiatives.
• Process improvement of team procedures and functions

The new Finance Manager role reports directly to the Finance Director, offering a unique opportunity to join a well-established and growth-focused fintech firm.

We are seeking an energetic team player with a strong commercial mindset, capable of actively contributing to our expanding expertise in financial controllership and analytical capabilities. This pivotal role will play a crucial part in driving our financial strategy forward, ensuring robust financial controls and providing insightful analysis to support our continued growth and success.

What you'll do: 

• Managing and providing leadership to the finance team, ensuring smooth operations and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Overseeing the monthly management reporting process, including month-end reconciliations, financial consolidation, variance analysis, and preparation of board reports.
• Assisting in the annual budgeting process and long-term strategic planning, as well as periodic re-forecasting to support business decision-making.
• Providing insightful commentary and detailed reporting to stakeholders, including equity investors and sophisticated debt providers.
• Leading the preparation of statutory audited financial statements, tax returns, BAS, FBT, and R&D claims.
• Conducting ad hoc financial analysis to support strategic initiatives and operational efficiencies.

This role supports the Finance Business Manager in our Issuing Product Domain by providing quality financial advice, modelling, reporting, budgeting, forecasting and other financial functions to support all key strategic projects across Cuscal. 
   
The responsibilities in this role include: 
   
Monthly Reporting: 

• Responsible for full end to end (E2E) accounting for all strategic projects.  

• Steering committee reporting packs for all strategic projects. 

• Presentation of project financial reporting to steering committee members as required.  

• Benefit realisation reporting for all strategic projects on a monthly basis. 

• Preparing and posting project journals as required. 

Forecasting & Budgeting 

• Prepare and maintain project budget / forecast models as required  

• Analysis of inputs, particularly transaction drivers (or similar) 

• Prepare reporting on budget / forecast submissions, including performance against target and variance analysis  

• Monthly reforecasting for strategic projects, both cost and benefits. 

Decision Support: 

• Assistance with preparation of Project Evaluation Models, Project Business Cases and other governance artefacts as required for strategic projects and other projects as required.  

• Build and maintain financial models. 

• Analysis and review of project forecasts and assisting Project Managers with financial analysis of projects.  

• Benefit and contract review for application of accounting standards. 

• Other ad-hoc financial analytical activities as required.  

• Assisting Project Managers and other Project community members with preparation of financial summaries for inclusion in business cases and other project documentation as required. 

   
About You 
In this role within our Project space the role requires the successful candidate to have strong analytical skills and be able to interpret and evaluate data.  You will also bring your strong financial modelling skills to the role along with your ability to understand business objectives and drivers and how they translate into financial measure. 
   
As the successful candidate you will have experience working in a commercial environment and previous experience working on projects. This role is a very visible one within Cuscal so you will get the opportunity to present to and work with key stakeholders.  
   
A relevant university degree will be essential with at least 4 years’ commercial experience and an understanding of resource costing methodologies will be highly regarded.             
   
Why Cuscal? 
We are in the rapidly evolving world of payments, and we are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. We support our colleagues with flexible work arrangements through our hybrid model whilst also offering a wide range of educational, financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits. 
   
Next Step 
If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let’s explore who you are and what drives you. We’d love to share our vision for the future of payments sector. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert. 

Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and search firms. Please do not email or send unsolicited resumes to any Cuscal employee, location or address. 

An internal opportunity within our Finance team has created an exciting opening for a Regional Finance Director to join a progressive organisation with a strong, people-focused culture in Sydney.

In this senior leadership role, you will leverage your extensive finance expertise and proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders to drive financial performance, enhance commercial outcomes, and support strategic decision-making across the region.

As the Regional Finance Director, you will be responsible for leading the regional finance team, fostering career development and mentoring team members, while serving as the key business partner for regional leadership. Your role will focus on delivering project financial plans, improving commercial results and driving financial acumen across all phases of the project lifecycle.

Reporting directly to the ANZ Finance Director, you will also play a pivotal role in collaborating with operations and senior leadership to ensure the successful delivery of financial and business goals.

This is a rare opportunity to lead from the front, shape financial strategy and inspire a high-performing team in a dynamic and innovative organisation.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Collaborate with regional leadership to influence bid and pricing strategies, ensuring profitability and cash flow optimization.
• Lead the monthly close process, ensuring the timely and accurate preparation of financial reporting.
• Oversee revenue recognition in line with company policies and analyse overhead expenditures for the region.
• Develop and execute financial strategies that align with AECOM’s regional and global objectives.
• Manage financial risks by anticipating challenges, analysing economic and commercial conditions and taking preventive measures.
• Ensure full SOX compliance, support annual audits, and maintain strong internal controls to protect the organization’s financial integrity.
• Provide fact-based commercial insights, leveraging data from internal and external sources to guide strategic business decisions.