Chief Financial Officer

The Financial Controller (FC) is accountable for the administration, financial and risk management operations of the company, including the development of a financial strategy coherent with the direction and impact objectives of the organization as a whole, as well as an operational plan and metrics to execute on the financial strategy, and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results.

Reporting to the COO, the FC will support and drive Mindhive’s financial and commercial performance to ensure that it is efficient and effective in delivering its financial and impact goals in line with budgets, multi-year plans, community aspirations, expectations set by key financing partners and the strategic goals that he or she has taken an active role in developing with the CEO and COO. S/he will provide leadership of the finance, investor relations and legal issues to provide professional and effective financial management and support.

The FC will take a hands-on approach to the role with a strong coaching leadership style.

**Capabilities**

The Finance function will play a key role in Mindhive’s success, ensuring the company's long-term viability and financial resilience and enabling and empowering budget holders to act as prudent stewards of our financial assets and risks as well as support design of innovative financing mechanisms for growth. Our vision is to build a Finance function that:

- Provides high-quality data, analysis, and financial narratives to all internal and external stakeholders;
- Offers standard and bespoke financial models to support our business development activities;
- Supports the organization in becoming a risk-intelligent organism that understands risks, knows trade-offs, and can act in a distributed way;
- Continues to build a level of equity/reserves that bestows resilience upon the company
- Build a reputation as a trusted financial partner for funders, investors, auditors, tax authorities, banks, and shareholders;
- Provides integrated financial reports for decision-making of C-Suite and Board.

**Financial Steering and Planning**
- Co-lead the implementation of the company’s strategy from a financial and commercial perspective and identify supporting tactical initiatives
- Monitor and direct the implementation of strategic business plans, including the management of stakeholder interfaces with cost reporting
- Report to COO and, as needed, to the CEO and Governing Board (GB)
- Develop financial and tax strategies
- Manage budgeting processes
- Develop performance measures that support the company’s strategic direction
- Develop and implement a financial framework and guidelines to deliver individual commercial decisions aligned to business goals

**Operations**
- Participate in key decisions as a member of the Executive
- Maintain in-depth relations with all members of the management team
- Manage any third parties to which accounting or finance functions have been outsourced
- Oversee the company’s transaction processing systems

Financial Information
- Oversee the release of quality financial information
- Report financial results and make financial forecasts

**Legal, Compliance and Risk Management**
- Support the development of a risk intelligent organization - working at the edge of innovation
- Understand and mitigate key elements of the company’s risk profile
- Monitor all open legal issues involving the company and legal issues affecting the industry
- Construct and monitor reliable control systems
- Maintain appropriate insurance coverage
- Ensure that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements
- Ensure that record-keeping meets the requirements of auditors
- Report risk issues to the Executive

Company Secretary
- Corporate governance, including acting as Company Secretary
- Managing board processes - board and committee papers and circulation of agendas, minutes, discussion papers, proposals for the board and its committees;
- Ensuring members’ and directors’ meetings are properly called and held. Note a company secretary cannot call a meeting without authority (e.g. a delegation / instruction from the board);
- Ensuring the necessary registers are established and properly maintained and ensuring that the company's financial records are maintained, and reports prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Act;
- Ensuring records of members’ and directors’ meetings are kept in compliance with the Act and the organisation’s constitution (again, the company secretary cannot do this without authority);
- Understanding and ensuring the company complies with its statutory obligations, ensuring requirements of ASIC and other regulators are met, including continuous disclosure;
- Development, implementation, communication and maintenance of compliance policies, processes and procedures.

**Funding**
- Monitor cash balances and cash forecasts
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