Chief Financial Officer

• Influence the Future Direction of the Company
• Be Challenged, Be Rewarded, Be Happy
• Looking for a Spectacular Role or Sea Change

Empower the businesses and people to thrive by equipping them with the necessary tools, education, and resources to manage current operations and identify new opportunities for the organisation's future growth. Be part of an exciting journey, where the sand is minutes from your front door.

The Role

As part of the Executive team and reporting to the Group General Manager, the Chief Financial Officer will assume a critical and pivotal leadership position within a dynamic and rapidly expanding organisation. You will be entrusted with overseeing all aspects of the company's financial strategy, performance, and setting up rigorous financial frameworks. Your role scope will also extend to and include responsibility across all core business groups and will span across a broad diverse spectrum from investments, insurance, cash management, budgeting, and finance reporting to drive the company's financial strategy. Additionally, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, including investment decisions, capital allocation, mergers, investors, and joint ventures in a journey of consolidation, growth, and expansion through a broad portfolio of businesses and sectors.

Key Accountabilities:

• Guiding the business towards a dynamic future by overseeing financial strategies, driving commercial initiatives, and ensuring effective risk management practices
• Drive business improvement initiatives such as improved enterprise cost reduction, procurement, legal, insurance, and other process improvements that add value.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders to achieve organisation objectives and foster collaboration for collective impact with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage the month-end close process and oversee income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Ensure strict compliance with all relevant financial regulations, compliance requirements, and tax laws to ensure the organisation's adherence to relevant rules and regulations.
• Provide and manage P&L analysis across the business groups to support the annual budget's whilst maintaining rolling reforecast analysis to support operational decision-making.
• Develop strategic operational plans aligned with business goals to enhance revenue diversification and promote commercial thinking within the leadership teams.
• Oversee and manage development, integration and review of the organisations software and reporting systems and applications for accurate results and data.
• Being instrumental in providing essential commercial leadership to manage current core operations and identifying new opportunities for the organisation's future growth.

Qualifications and Experience:

• You should possess tertiary qualifications in Finance, Business Accounting, or Accounting, with a desire for those holding a master's degree.
• Demonstrate a successful track record of senior leadership within complex organisations, showcasing strong business acumen and commercial thinking.
• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment across multiple businesses.
• Be a strategic thinker with a proactive approach to leadership, capable of navigating complex challenges and driving the organisation towards long-term success.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of advanced accounting, regulatory issues and tax planning and software Xero would be an advantage.
• Experience in shaping overall strategy and direction, instilling a financial approach and mind set throughout the company to help other parts of the business portfolios perform better.

Like to know more? To submit your application, in strict confidence, please apply online using the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Andrew Hendra at Hudson on *************@hudson.com or Ph 0423 873 ***.