Senior Manager - Group Finance

A well-established financial services group with operations across Australia, New Zealand and offshore markets is seeking an experienced Senior Finance Manager with strong conolidations and technical accounting experience to support its expanding and increasingly complex portfolio of businesses.  
 
Based in the Sydney CBD with flexible working arrangements, this role will suit a technically strong finance leader who enjoys working across multiple entities and engaging with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced group environment.

Reporting into senior finance leadership, this position plays a key role in overseeing group-level financial reporting and governance. Responsibilities will span statutory reporting, technical accounting, and advisory support to the broader business.

Key areas of accountability include:

• Leading group consolidation activities and ensuring accurate, compliant financial reporting across multiple entities
• Producing high-quality financial papers and insights for executive leadership and board-level forums
• Providing technical accounting advice on complex transactions, including acquisitions, restructures and bespoke commercial arrangements
• Assessing upcoming accounting standard changes, developing implementation roadmaps and guiding business units through adoption requirements
• Delivering valuation analysis and cash flow modelling to support annual impairment reviews
• Acting as the primary liaison with external auditors and managing audit planning and execution
• Contributing to finance uplift and systems improvement initiatives, including transformation programs and process enhancements

About you:

• CA qualified with extensive post-qualification experience, including a foundation in professional services or a Big 4 environment and subsequent exposure within a large, complex organisation
• Strong grounding in Australian Accounting Standards and IFRS, with particular depth across group reporting and M&A-related accounting
• Comfortable working across enterprise finance systems and consolidation tools (experience with large ERPs and planning platforms advantageous)
• Confident communicator able to translate technical matters for non-finance stakeholders
• Detail-oriented, analytical and capable of exercising sound judgement in ambiguous situations

This opportunity is well suited to a Senior Manager operating in a group finance, technical accounting or external audit role, looking to step into a broader, commercially engaged position with meaningful influence.

What’s on offer:

• Attractive remuneration aligned to experience
• Hybrid working model and flexible arrangements
• Supportive, professional culture with exposure to diverse and complex work