AddressAbout Us
pitt&sherry is an Australian-owned engineering and environmental consultancy. Since 1963, we have been delivering engineering and environmental consulting, advisory and project management services throughout Australia. With seven offices throughout Australia our team work on projects that transform and improve the lives of Australians every day.
The Opportunity:
- Play a key role in pitt&sherry's transformation and growth strategy
- Provide analysis and recommendations to help shape business decisions
- Drive the direction and implementation of the business planning process including financial, operational and people targets in collaboration with the Executive team.
- Identify, diagnose, and drive improvements to the way financial information is captured and reported back to the Executive, CEO and Board.
- Contribute to the business achieving monthly operating budgets, profitability, invoicing and cash collections targets.
- Ensure project profitability is maintained at desired levels.
- Establish and monitor a robust cashflow & treasury function to ensure sustainable business planning.
- Accountability for financing and banking relationships ensuring compliance with compliance and governance requirements.
- Monitor financial performance and drive desired outcomes through rigorous processes including invoicing and debtor management in addition to cost control measures across the business.
- Drive commercial acumen capability across the business.
- Continue to develop strong analytics capability to support client, project, and operational activity.
- In addition to Finance, the CFO has accountability for Legal, Risk, Compliance and Procurement
What you bring:
- A strong people leader with prior experience as a CFO or held senior level finance roles and looking to step up
- Tertiary Qualified - CA or CPA preferred
- Professional Services experience preferably within engineering but open to other relevant industries
- Demonstrated leadership experience with a strong strategic mindset
- Experience in aligning strategies with business objectives to ensure business success and growth
- Extensive experience in managing all day-to-day operations of a finance function: statutory group reporting, management reporting, treasury and tax, cashflow & banking, AP, audits and payroll
- A team player and natural collaborator with a high level of integrity
- Values driven leader with a strong desire to play a key role in shaping the organisation’s culture
- Experience in employee owned business preferred but not essential
Why join us:
- Join us during an exciting time of transformation and help drive our growth strategy
- We’re advocates for flexible working practices, most of our team split their time between working from home and the office. Genuine work/life balance is important to us and we invest in the development of our people.
- Supportive and collaborative team environment
- A market competitive remuneration package and additional benefits.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
We welcome and encourage applications from a diverse background including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, mature workers, LGBTI+ people and people from different cultural backgrounds.
“We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant”
