Head of Group Financial Control-12/18 Month Fixed

Company Description
**Are you ready to be a big part of something big?**

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it?

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle - Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.

Lead, support and grow a culture of operational excellence in financial control processes and activities across the business to ensure control and governance requirements are met across the Australian and international operations, with a continued focus on value added activities

Our Finance team has a full understanding of how each of our business units work, as they collaborate and share ideas with all our teams to ensure we are always delivering the best possible user experience to our customers.

**What’s on offer**
- A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
- We’re a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave.

**Job Description**:
**What you’ll do**

Leading a large team (6 Direct reports) and reporting to the CFO, you will be an integral part of a passionate finance team. The Head of Group Financial Control will be a strong communicator who is confident in leading conversations with senior stakeholders, and will be comfortable working in a fast paced environment across financial accounting, technical accounting, finance operations and internal controls to ensure that the Company’s financial records are of a high standard.
- Share expertise to drive a culture of operational excellence in financial control processes and activities across the business to ensure control and governance requirements are met across the Australian and international operations, with a continued focus on value added activities
- Develop, grow, and manage the Financial Control and accounting function in delivery of accurate and timely month-end, year-end and half-year reporting and compliance obligations
- You will be responsible for driving process improvement and operational performance by challenging the status quo and identifying and executing on opportunities for greater efficiency of financial compliance activities and quality of management information.
- Develop and support solutions that drive improvements in the Financial Operations teams (encompassing Billing, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable)
- Collaborate and connect to lead critical projects as and when they occur, including system migrations/implementations and business combinations
- Understand and agree Preparation and presentation of Audit Committee papers
- Ensure that international markets are preparing financial results to a high standard and in accordance with IFRS accounting standards. Act as a key business partner for international CFO’s
- Key contributor in due diligence and Purchase Price Accounting (PPA) outcomes for any small and large scale acquisitions that may occur

**Qualifications**:

- Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously)
- Demonstrate understanding and expertise in ASX listed environment
- Expertise to lead and engage relevant teams.
- Motivation and proven track record in achieving results and ability to prioritise work in accordance with reporting needs and manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
- Excellent communicator with confidence in leading conversations with senior stakeholders
- Flexibility to adapt and respond to changes emerging in a rapid paced environment
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA/CA)
- Previous experience with NetSuite ERP or similar accounting programs advantageous

Additional Information
**A few other things we want to let you know about...**

We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask

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