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.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Finance Officer to join our finance team. This role provides flexibility within the Finance Department by supporting various financial functions, including but not limited to, processing credit applications, invoicing, debt collection, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, general cashiering duties and payroll duties.

As an integral member of our team, the Finance Officer will ensure accurate financial transactions and timely reporting to support the hotel’s operations.

Keys duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Assisting with weekly payroll processes, from processing, reviewing and submitting for payment, to management and statutory reporting.
• Supporting the month-end closing process by preparing account reconciliations and assisting with journal entries.

• Helping manage daily cash receipts, including reconciling cash, cheques, and foreign currency transactions.
• Maintaining accurate records of cash floats and assisting with monthly cash audits.
• Assisting with invoicing, debt collection, and follow-ups as needed.
• Providing general support to the Finance team with ad hoc tasks and compliance requirements.

This role is ideal for someone with 2 years’ experience, who wants to develop their skills and gain exposure to various financial processes in a supportive team environment.

Finance Analyst - Commercial

To provide commercial support and advice to the Endeavour Group Merchandise Team, using data to drive performance reporting, planning and insightful analysis that improves and supports decision-making.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Own and manage the weekly & monthly performance reporting insights, clear communication of key drivers.
• Partner with the Head of Wine and Wine category team to support, develop and maintain robust processes to measure and track financial performance across the Wine category initiatives. 
• Support the forecast and budget processes for sales and profit.
• Proactively work with key stakeholders to optimise ways of working across Merchandise
• Responsible for building ad hoc analysis based on the needs of the category teams
• Proactively communicate commercial impacts on past and future activities amongst stakeholders.  
• Analyse Initiatives to improve visibility and accountability of the categories financials and performance
• Support strategic and project analysis to drive improved returns on capital investments and business initiatives
• Identify opportunities to liaise with relevant teams on cross functional activities 
• Support broader commercial finance team when necessary and ensure Merchandise strategies are widely known across the broader finance 

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Drive and deliver the month-end process for Pinnacle Wine Services entities.
• Identify and effectively report balance sheet risk through the monthly preparation of general ledger reconciliations and drive improvements across the group.
• Undertake internal control testing and compile information for internal and external auditors, including explanation of movements in key accounts.
• Maintaining documented controls and process flows to identify efficiencies and meet internal control requirements.
• Assist with preparation and analysis of the annual operating expense and capital budgets.
• Leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power BI to drive efficiencies.
• Proactive business partnering with Pinnacle and Endeavour Group finance teams to assist in providing details around financial information.

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. 

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