Head Of Group Financial Control

• We’re Flex First - we’ve fully embraced flexible working
• Excellent Opportunity for a passionate and experienced Sales Leader
• Full Time | competitive base salary + vehicle allowance +monthly performance bonus 
• Australia's #1 home loan platform - great tech, vibrant culture, and high energy team

In May 2021, Lendi and Aussie Home Loans merged to create Lendi Group. Today, Lendi Group is Australia's largest retail mortgage broker, with a loan book in excess of $70 billion, over 1200 brokers and 225 retail stores across the country.

At Lendi Group, we use technology to drive better customer outcomes and experiences. We’re passionate about what we do and like to do things differently.

Despite the challenges and change in the last year, we’ve enjoyed record growth while adapting to the changing world around us. We’ve fully embraced flexible working from home: we call it ‘flex first,’ and it's now a core part of our DNA.

The Finance team at Lendi Group comprises Financial Control, Business Partnering and Commissions professionals with a common mission to build the leading modern finance team.

The Head of Group Financial Control will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and be working alongside other members of the Lendi Group Leadership Team.

What you will get to be part of:

• Leading by example as a key member of the Finance leadership team
• Leading the group-wide month-end processes, conducting detailed P&L reviews across all our brands and delivering P&L and BS reporting for the Group
• Responsibility for ensuring the delivery of all our statutory, regulatory and tax reporting obligations in Australia and the Philippines
• Responsibility for delivering the Group’s annual report and interim investor presentations
• Maintaining a robust control environment for all payments and reporting. Role-modelling best practices in risk culture in all our processes
• Maintaining effective working relationships with external auditors
• Contributing to the development of the Group’s operations strategy as part of Lendi Group’s Leadership team
• Supporting the finance business partnering teams to provide stakeholders with comprehensive finance support
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for process improvement, leveraging technology to improve efficiency and controls

Our ideal candidate profile

• A people leader who can attract and grow finance talent within the group, with a proven ability to lead people of varying experience levels and across multiple locations in Australia and the Philippines
• Deep expertise in statutory reporting and direct and indirect tax compliance both locally and internationally
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to engage a senior audience
• Analytical, with a strong eye for detail and a high level of financial acumen to achieve accurate and timely reporting of Group results
• Tech savvy and hands-on to deliver continuous improvements in our finance tech stack
• Ability to deal with large amounts of data for processing, reconciliation and analysis
• A collaborative working style to partner business stakeholders, cross-functional finance colleagues and management
• Effective time management, ability to meet deadlines and operate under time pressure in a dynamic environment
• Commitment to deliver exceptional service to both internal and external customers

Experience that will help you succeed in the role

• Previous background as a Financial Controller in the financial services industry, and a demonstrable understanding of the residential mortgage sector
• Master’s degree qualification and CPA or CA professional accreditation
• Proven experience in managing a large team of accounting and finance professionals
• Deep knowledge of AASB requirements, tax requirements, and operational audit requirements
• Advanced Excel and PowerBI skills and high attention to detail
• Experience in the end to end-to-end leadership of risk management in a complex corporate environment

• We’re Flex First which means we’ve fully embraced flexible working from home and have metropolitan city offices for those who do want to work from the office
• We offer extended Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with up to 26 weeks of leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers. 
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service. 

We are a people-first company that invests in initiatives to promote a healthy work environment, such as offering an Employee Assistance Program and social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group attract, engage and evolve talent and build best-in-class products.

Lendi Group is a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer; we value a positive candidate experience and commit to responding to every applicant. Once we have received your application, we will reach out to you via email.

Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.

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