Finance Manager

Role Purpose
The Finance Manager / Senior Management Accountant will be responsible for maintaining the accuracy, integrity and reliability of financial information across a complex manufacturing and project environment. The role combines strong technical accounting capability with hands-on transactional experience and a practical understanding of manufacturing, project accounting, WIP, inventory, costing and milestone billing.
The successful candidate must be comfortable moving between detailed transactional work, month-end accounting, reconciliations, project analysis and process improvement.
Key Position Accountabilities
Own and support the month-end close process, including P&L, balance sheet, cash-flow reporting, journals, reconciliations and variance analysis.
Support manufacturing, cost and project accounting, including WIP, project/job costing, inventory, standard costing, project profitability and milestone / percentage-of-completion revenue recognition.
Oversee AP/AR, bank reconciliations, cash flow, working capital, customer invoicing, progress claims, deposits and milestone billing, stepping in to perform detailed tasks directly when required.
Work across multiple non-integrated operational, production and finance systems to trace transactions end-to-end, reconcile differences and maintain general ledger integrity.
Identify data-quality issues, process gaps and control weaknesses, and implement practical ERP, process and workflow improvements. Use advanced Excel to manipulate, reconcile and analyse data from multiple sources.
Support fixed assets, audit, Australian compliance, budgeting and forecasting, while working closely with finance, project, procurement, engineering, manufacturing and operations teams.
Key Qualifications, Skills & Experience
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field. CPA, CA, ACCA or CIMA preferred, but not mandatory where experience is particularly strong.
Approximately 8–12 years of finance/accounting experience, including experience as a Finance Manager, Senior Financial Accountant, Senior Management Accountant or equivalent.
Strong hands-on experience in manufacturing, engineering and/or project-based environments, including cost accounting, inventory, WIP, job/project costing and project profitability.
Experience with milestone or percentage-of-completion revenue recognition and progress billing.
Strong end-to-end financial transaction knowledge, with hands-on exposure across the full transaction lifecycle rather than experience limited to one specific area.
Proven ability to operate effectively in a lean, complex environment with strong self-learning, initiative, problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills.
Clear and confident written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate effectively with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Experience working with Australian, New Zealand or Western organisations.
Working Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (AEST)

Work arrangement
Yes