About the job

• Partner directly with Studio Partners and Project Leads
• Shape processes and make the finance function your own
• Collaborative culture with genuine flexibility built on trust

Hays has partnered with COX Architecture to appoint a Finance Manager to its Canberra studio.

Finance Manager

Your new company

Hays has partnered with COX Architecture to appoint a Finance Manager to its Canberra studio.

COX Architecture is one of Australia's leading contemporary architectural practices, with a highly collaborative culture and a portfolio of significant projects across Australia and New Zealand.

This is not a traditional Finance Manager opportunity. Working closely with the Studio Partners, Project Leads and the national finance team, you will take ownership of the Canberra finance function while also supporting the New Zealand business.

With much of the traditional month-end processing managed centrally, the opportunity is to develop the position towards a commercial focus, becoming an influential finance partner to the studio.

The Opportunity

An early priority will be improving the finance and project accounting framework, creating stronger processes and greater visibility over project performance. From there, you will increasingly focus on commercial outcomes, partnering with project leaders to understand and improve the performance of their projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the daily finance function of the Canberra studio
• Partnering with Studio Partners and Project Leads on project performance and commercial outcomes
• Reviewing project profitability, cash flow, costing and forecasting
• Improving and embedding project finance processes
• Forecasting and providing meaningful financial analysis
• Supporting commercial decision-making across the studio