Aspire Software is looking to hire an experienced and dynamic Finance Manager Australia to join our team in Australia!

The Finance Manager Australia will report to the Director of Finance in North America. This successful Finance Manager Australia will coordinate and manage period-end close, budgeting and forecasting, statutory audits, and integrations of new businesses and ensure accurate financial reporting and analysis for a portfolio of acquired companies, as well as lead projects impacting their accounting and provide guidance on the more complex accounting issues. The current portfolio is 8 Australian software companies with annualized revenues of circa 40MM-USD.

Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software, the operational arm of Valsoft Corp, operates and manages Valsoft’s global portfolio of wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time-sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.

Our motto is 'Be Humble, Stay Hungry!'

The successful candidate will work in a hybrid work model from either our office in Adelaide or Melbourne, with occasional ad-hoc travel across Australia and the rest of the world required!

What Your Day Will Look Like:

• Drive the financial planning of Australian companies by analyzing the performance and risks of the assets
• Set targets for and supervise all accounting and finance personnel (Accounting, FP&A, AR, AP)
• Working closely with the Managing Directors to understand their business and needs
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports
• Build and manage monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts and track KPIs
• Monitor and analyze the performance strategies to identify areas of opportunity respond with action plans to ensure execution to meet and exceed financial targets
• Monitor the financial health of the portfolio and ensure positive cash flow
• Lead and organize the annual statutory audits and ensure all fillings are completed
• Develop strategies to increase return on investment and profitability
• Oversee and review accounting tasks, including tax and compliance
• Ensure effective financial internal controls and continually evaluate established policies and procedures
• Collaborate with the integration team of newly acquired companies by producing opening balances, complete financials, and onboarding on Valsoft finance procedures
• Maintain high-level interaction with the corporate finance department
• Actively participate in the processes related to the sale or acquisition of companies
• Manage a local Finance team

About You:

• A qualified Financial Accountant with at least a bachelor's degree or above in Accounting, Finance, Economics or similar is essential
• 8+ years of experience in a similar role, including at least 3+ years in team management, is essential
• Ability to manage risks by ensuring that effective and efficient internal controls are in place without compromising operational efficiency and flexibility
• Extensive knowledge and skill in multiple disciplines to be able to integrate them effectively and a capacity to understand and interpret conflicting goals and needs of diverse groups
• Fast learner and adaptable – time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Working knowledge of Oracle NetSuite ERP (or similar) is considered an asset
• Ability to visualize efficient processes and implement them
• Excellent organizational skills and time management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel
• Being fluent in English, both written and verbal, is essential
• Must be legally authorized to work in Australia

For information about Aspire Software, please visit our website at www.aspiresoftware.com

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

About the role

Based in either our Perth or Melbourne Studio, we are looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join our team. Guided by the Studio accountants and Group Finance team, you will help to ensure the accurate and timely entry of vendor invoices into the Accounts Payable ledger of the finance system, as well as assist with timesheet & Project Code administration in both our Australia and international business, which all use the same centralised accounting system (Microsoft D365). This role will be reporting to Studio Accountant & Group Finance Team.

Whilst this will have an initial focus on our Perth studio, as a full time role, it will include supporting other studios where assistance is required in both our Australian and in our overseas locations.

_Processing creditor invoices, ensuring correct approval authority is followed;

_Process and review employee expense claims in our expense management system;

_Process Corporate Amex and taxi accounts, where relevant for assigned locations;

_Set-up weekly payment runs for approval;

_Run ad-hoc creditor reports as required to review and verify vendor and project postings;

_Reconcile vendor account balances as required;

_Correspond with and attend to queries from creditors;

_Keeping creditor account details up to date in D365;

_Help assist with timely completion of studio timesheets (weekly studio reminders);

_Help provide project access requests for timesheets;

_Assist with project code set-up in D365;

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Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

What you will be doing

• Strong leadership skills with a long-term proven track-record of achieving sales and revenue growth targets.

• Ability to demonstrate persistence, high-energy, proactive approach to overcome adversity, obstacles, solve problems, to ‘navigate forward’ in order to find solutions even thru adversity

• Hands-on operator within a team environment while also able to command the respect of the entire company through leadership, intelligence, hard work, presence, and empathy.

• Strong communication skills: able to bring back the ‘voice of the customer’ and engage thoughtfully with product teams and other strategic team members within FIS.

• Ability to craft, distill and deliver powerful messages that convey meaning and value to our team and our clients.

• Proven track record in identifying, negotiating, & execution to closure, specific to selling complex multi-million-dollar software and services to large diversified financial institutions.

• Ability to establish extensive in-depth understanding of the client’s strategy, and coordination of a high touch relationship between FIS executives and the Sr. C-Level Executives with specified territory.

• Strong knowledgeable of market developments, apprising sales teams of competitor activity, including competitive product usage, and proposals in progress throughout the account. 

What you bring

• Minimum 10+ years of successful sales experience in the financial services industry

• The appetite to go deep in managing the relationship with some key top FIS APAC accounts 

• Extensive selling experience and proven track record of results, within the software and services sector

• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, diversity of business customer, and higher-level customer interface

• Well versed in sales effectiveness techniques and strategies

• Minimum Bachelor's degree, Advanced degree preferred

What we offer you

• Attractive benefits including private medical cover, dental cover, and travel insurance

• Training across core financial, sales and FIS solutions

• International travel

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

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