Financial Genius

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We believe hospitality and retail food businesses are the beating heart of a community. Places to connect or escape, share a meal, swap a story, form an idea, or simply grab something you love to take home with you.

It’s our mission to not only make incredible products, but to run a world class business by having a seriously great team, strong principles, excellent company culture, and enormous respect for our clients.

Our door is always open to passionate people who love their craft.

**Financial Genius**

Most financial roles are pretty boring. But this one isn’t one of them

So if you’re wildly excited about solving complex end-to-end financial challenges that directly impact a growing leadership in an exciting food business, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for someone at a Financial Controller level to help drive positive change within Three Mills Bakery and associated businesses. It’s an active role working on strategy and implementation that you’ll lead and make your own. You must be a happy human who can create and implement sustainable systems that capture and make sense of data sets and help drive our business from a financial perspective.

Of course the role also involves the business-as-usual elements around reporting, payroll and compliance, but that should come easy to the successful applicant.

Success in the role will rely on being an excellent communicator and effective doer. Someone who can help others, align teams (financially), and think creatively about solving root causes in order to achieve sustainable results.

Although we’ve partnered with excellent external Accountants to date, you will be responsible for building elements from the ground up instead of conforming to current systems as we explore moving to a more capable piece of software.

But it’s not all about skills, we’re also looking for the right personality. To give you an understanding of our expectations, here are some responsibilities we can see you taking control of:
**Our new Financial Genius must demonstrate the following**:

- Exceptional analytical skills and financial acumen including general commercial experience
- Able to analyse and interpret data to make decisions
- Ability to dig into balance sheet reconciliations, identify the process behind the numbers, and resolve errors
- Curiosity to investigate issues detected when reviewing reports and the enthusiasm to go the extra mile to resolve them
- High level of written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and people management skills
- High level of emotional intelligence and agility
- Ability to strategically plan and influence others
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail with the ability to maintain detailed and accurate records
- A creative approach to problem solving
- A high level of computer literacy
- An ability to perform required duties with a minimum level of supervision
- Certified bookkeeper and registered BAS Agent
- Preferably CA / CPA Qualified
- Proficient in Xero and MYOB
- 3+ years’ experience as a Financial Controller or similar

**Key duties**
- Actively contribute to the planning, reporting and monitoring of the finances of the business.
- Oversee the timely and accurate lodgements of BAS, payroll, licensing and other required regulatory obligations.
- Overall management of accounts payable, payroll and inventory/invoice functions.
- Prepare monthly management reports including analysis of overall business performance, and financial position and review with the CEO
- Prepare annual three-way budgets for the group
- Cash flow planning and reporting
- Establish financial controls and procedures
- Identify cost saving opportunities while maintaining quality of business
- Continuous improvement of business systems, data management and financial analysis and reporting
- Provide input into key commercial decisions to ensure the business can deliver within its means

**What it’s like to work with us**:

- Work in a flexible, relaxed and friendly environment
- Own the finance function - make it yours
- Involved in rapid expansion and be exposed to the challenges of a business that grows quickly, distributes nationally and adapts to change swiftly
- Grow the role further and develop the finance team
- We’re a bakery at heart - free coffee, sourdough and pastries come with the territory.

**Essential**:

- Demonstrated ability to work independently to organise and prioritise demands,
- Handle multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
- Set and meet deadlines with competing demands
- Strong communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in either Accounting or Commerce
- CPA/CA designation
- A minimum of 8+ years’ experience in an accounting/finance role
- Strong PC skills and IT knowledge
- Right to work in Australia
- Role is based in Fyshwick, ACT but we offer flexible working-from-home days.

These aren’t essential but would make you stand out:

- Knowledge of food