Financial Controller

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Role Description

This role provides senior financial control to a fast-growing facilities management group pursuing rapid expansion through acquisitions. The Financial Controller owns the numbers the director runs the group on: accurate entity-level and consolidated management reporting, cashflow visibility, and the financial controls that prevent the reporting errors the group has experienced before — chief among them strict intercompany entity separation and a daily reconciliation discipline, executed by a full-time Bookkeeper working under this role's review. As acquisitions complete, the Controller leads the financial integration of each new business. External tax and compliance sit with the group's advisors; this role is the internal finance leader who keeps the books decision-ready between them. The engagement begins part-time and is designed to move to full-time within three months based on performance, growing with the group. Candidates should expect to engage with the director's 30/60/90-day plan and the group's past operational challenges at interview.

Hours

20 hours per week (part-time), transitioning to full-time after 3 months based on performance

Industry

Facilities Management — Multi-Entity Group

Key Systems

Accounting software, consolidated reporting, cashflow models, external advisor liaison

Team

Oversees a full‑time Bookkeeper; external tax and compliance handled by the group's advisors

Reporting To

Director

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management reports — profit and loss and balance sheet per entity, plus consolidated group view
• Provide clear commentary on movements, variances and trends the director can act on
• Build and maintain cashflow forecasts across the group
• Own month‑end close — journals, accruals, reconciliation sign‑off and reporting deadlines
• Present numbers and recommendations directly to the director

Controls, Reconciliation Oversight & Entity Separation

• Review the Bookkeeper's daily reconciliations and month‑end workpapers
• Enforce strict intercompany separation — correct entity allocation, intercompany loan accounts reconciled
• Design and maintain controls that prevent recurrence of past reporting errors
• Set coding standards, charts of accounts and processes applied consistently across entities
• Direct, coach and quality‑assure the Bookkeeper's work

Acquisitions & Advisor Coordination

• Lead financial integration of acquired businesses — opening balances, systems migration and clean‑up
• Support acquisition due diligence with financial analysis as directed
• Liaise with the group's external tax and compliance advisors and deliver what they need, on time
• Improve finance systems and processes as the group scales
• Provide ad hoc analysis for growth and investment decisions

Skills & Experience

Required

• Qualified accountant (degree essential; CPA, CA or equivalent strongly preferred)
• Proven financial control or senior accountant experience across multiple entities
• Strong management reporting and consolidation skills with clear written commentary
• Demonstrated ability to design controls, review others' work and enforce standards
• Advanced Excel including cashflow modelling
• Confident, direct communicator able to challenge and advise a business owner
• Comfortable in a fast‑moving, acquisition‑driven environment
• Experience integrating acquired businesses or post‑acquisition finance clean‑ups
• Facilities management, trades or services industry exposure
• Experience managing offshore or remote finance staff

• Familiarity with Australian tax and compliance workflows when liaising with external advisors