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 opportunity sits within the digital pillar of Nine, where the focus is driving advertising effectiveness for brands across the suite of Nine digital assets such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey smh.com.au, afr.com.au and theage.com.au.

At the core, you will be accountable for end-to-end campaign management of Digital Ad campaigns, including but not limited to: approving bookings, monitoring campaign performance, deploying optimisation tactics to deliver budgets and technical troubleshooting.

By developing and nurturing a collaborative relationship with your sales patches and providing the highest level of service and project management, you will drive successful campaign delivery outcomes.

Day to day you will:

• Collectively prioritise campaign launches across your list of dedicated sales teams, ensuring a smooth go live process that is in-line with our Service Level Agreements
• Implement optimisation tactics as required throughout the lifetime of the campaign to maximise delivery and revenue
• Make calculated decisions in adjusting inventory and data mixology to achieve campaign objectives and maximise revenue
• Collaborate with Nines digital sales teams to resolve technical or delivery issues
• Run ‘In Progress’ meetings with the Sales team to ensure they are on track
• Provide end of campaign reporting insights, data analysis and recommendations to promote revenue growth

In this role you will be responsible for the credit performance of Shift’s Trade product against predefined KPIs.  The role encompasses owning credit decisioning models, portfolio management and monitoring the end-to-end operational performance of the business for factors that influence the credit performance of the product portfolio. 

• Own the credit performance of Shift’s Trade product from origination through to recovery ensuring the portfolio grows in line with Shift’s expectations of credit loss. This will involve taking ownership of origination models, customer account monitoring and analysis for of platform and processes for factors that are influencing credit performance. 

• Provide recommendations for changes to the models, credit policy and underwriting guidelines.  

• Serve as a member of the Trade management team, responsible for reporting on the credit performance and its influencing factors to the broader group  

• Ensure portfolio is optimised by ensuring exposure to low risk grade customers is increase whilst reduced to those that deteriorate . 

• Provide performance reporting to 2nd Line Risk responding appropriately to any queries 

Are you an innovative product manager with a passion for incubating new ideas and driving them to market? Shift is looking for a Product Manager to spearhead the launch of new products and manage their growth until they reach scale. As part of our dynamic team, you'll have the opportunity to bring fresh products to life, test market hypotheses, and help shape the future of our product offerings.

What you'll do: 

• Manage 2-3 new products simultaneously, overseeing all stages of the product lifecycle from market research to scaling.
• Identify and define new target markets and serviceable segments for product opportunities.
• Develop a strong market thesis, clearly articulating what Shift can offer SMEs that current solutions don’t.
• Design initial product concepts and organisational structures to maximize the chances of success while managing acceptable levels of risk.
• Translate product ideas into detailed, actionable requirements, ensuring smooth execution from concept to market launch.
• Coordinate necessary organisational changes (e.g., hiring, team expansion, systems updates) to support product launches and ensure the right resources are in place.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to execute on the product vision, driving alignment between product, design, development, and operations.
• Iterate quickly on product features and design to achieve Product-Market Fit, testing and refining the product based on customer feedback.
• Continuously improve the product, incorporating insights from customer usage, market trends, and competitor analysis to optimize the market fit.
• Make data-driven decisions on whether to scale the product as a core offering or exit the market if the product fails to gain traction.
• Ensure regular communication with stakeholders to provide updates on progress, iterations, and strategic decisions.