Location: Sydney Olympic Park, NSW

Salary Package: $180K - $200 + Super + Bonus + Car

Role highlights: Immerse yourself in Operations; Partner with GM to deliver growth Plan.

Role Overview

Reporting to a Business GM with a dotted line to the Group CFO, this Commercial Finance Manager role is effectively a Divisional CFO role with end-to-end accountability for delivering business targets. Your 90 day plan will be to build trust and credibility with individual Stakeholders to ensure that you have influence from a finance perspective and the partners seek you input for all key business and strategic decisions. Your day to day will see your reviewing P&Ls, providing insights, as well as challenging and supporting the business to achieve targets. You will work with individual Managers and help them develop business plans with the ultimate objective being to drive efficiencies, business performance and growth through Sales performance, cost optimisation and M&A.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a high performing candidate with a background in FP&A or Commercial/Operational Finance. To win in this role, you will require exceptional communication and relationship management skills as well as robust business acumen. Critical to your ability to build robust relationships will be humility as well as a winning attitude. From a career progression perspective, there is a strong path to CFO or Commercial / General Management for the right candidate. International opportunities can also be considered for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

• Drive branch performance by setting business plans, monitoring performance and challenging existing models and processes
• Be involved in evaluating M&A strategy and support in the evaluation of targets
• Drive the budgeting and forecasting process across all branches
• Management reporting including variance analysis, contract portfolio movements and commentaries for head office.
• Track performance of acquired businesses against earn out targets and business plans
• Review any ad-hoc/incremental investment opportunities to assess and improve profitability, and provide challenge to ensure that financials and assumptions are robust
• Assist with the integration of acquisition targets from an operational perspective and finance perspective.
• Proactively highlight future performance concerns and opportunities and ensure that the gaps are closed