• Salary circa $170,000 (inclusive of superannuation)
• High growth business with a Queensland head-office
• Exciting period for a profitable business with huge investment

The Opportunity

Our client is regarded as a true market leader in their industry. The company continues to enhance its product offering whilst strengthening its competitive advantage. The company has experienced significant growth, both organic and via M&A and envisages this to continue over the medium term.  Because of this they are seeking to employ a Finance Manager – Shared Services to lead their transactional accounting team and a Financial Accountant with a focus on process improvement and automation.

This is a highly visible leadership role with a key focus on process improvement, change management and superior leadership.  

The Challenge

Leading a team across all facets of AP, AR and banking and intercompany accounting, you will drive change and lead process improvements whilst ensuring efficient and timely running of the finance operations for the organisation. This is a newly created position. Your key responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Develop and deliver the finance shared services road map
• Lead, support and develop the transactional accounting team
• Identifying and driving process improvements and business re-engineering opportunities
• Enhancing each departments month end close processes
• Manage and deliver future finance stream M&A integrations
• Monitor quality and authorisation compliance of policy and processes 
• Assist with the external audit process
• Manage intercompany and related party recharges, including preparation of journals and invoices.
• Provide support to Group Finance on consolidated reporting and compliance matters, in addition to Treasury tasks as required.

The Expertise

Please consider expressing interest in this position if you possess the following:

• Strong communication skills and proven experience supporting and leading high performing teams
• Demonstrated change management experience where you have led significant process improvements and automation
• Ideally, you have experience leading transactional finance teams within a fast-paced consumer sector environment 
• Possibly, you are a CA, CPA Finance Manager who is overseeing a transactional finance team
• Possibly, you are an experienced Transactional/Shared Services/Finance Manager having led large teams across both small and large companies
• Prior experience establishing or restructuring a finance shared services department will be looked upon favourably

The Next Step

If this position will enhance your career and you would like further details on the client, the role, remuneration or a copy of the position description, please call Mike Lys  for a confidential discussion on 0477 016 453 
Or alternatively, please apply per the link below.

About ThompsonCook
  
ThompsonCook fosters strong relationships with top accounting and finance professionals across Australia. We recruit for key finance function roles, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Financial Accountants, Management Accountants, Finance Managers, Financial Controllers, and Chief Financial Officers, as well as positions in Treasury, Tax, and Audit. We support our clients with both permanent and contracting recruitment solutions.
 
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