Senior Manager, Financial Reporting

• Long Established, Global Brand
• Financial Governance & Tax Role
• Autonomous, Senior Management Position

About the Company

Our client is a long established, international and iconic manufacturing business with a truly global footprint. Recognised as a byword for innovation, technology and excellence in the development of world-beating products, they have rightly occupied a revered place in a highly competitive market for many decades.

Established for over 50 years in Australia, the business has grown year on year and is now acknowledged as one of only a handful of iconic brands in its sector. With its vibrant and purpose designed headquarters in the Southeast of Melbourne, the company fosters and espouses a culture of creativity, collaboration, and smart thinking which fuels its success and makes it a genuinely great place to work.

As the result of some internal promotions and the need for more expertise in this sector as the business continues to grow, an opportunity for a Senior Manager in Financial Governance, Reporting and Taxation space has now arisen.

About the Role

Occupying a pivotal place in the Senior Leadership team, this autonomous role will carry responsibility for management of the business's tax and compliance reporting function, maintaining the accuracy and timeliness of its reporting back to the wider business and ensuring the integrity of the company's regulatory obligations.

In addition, it will carry responsibility for managing a high-performing financial accounting and taxation team and providing regular updates back to the CFO and broader Executive.

In addition, responsibilities will include:

• Oversee financial compliance and governance while driving continuous improvement across finance systems and reporting frameworks.
• Provide strategic leadership to the Financial Accounting & Tax team, managing priorities, fostering professional growth, and nurturing the high-performing culture embedded within the business.
• Ensure strict adherence to external compliance and regulatory requirements, safeguarding the organisation's financial integrity.
• Champion the optimisation of internal controls, processes, and systems to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across Finance operations.
• Lead the resolution of audit findings (both internal and external), implementing sustainable remediation measures and best-practice frameworks.
• Collaborate with the Tax Accountant to ensure accurate preparation and timely lodgement of Income Tax Returns.
• Guarantee the timely and precise fulfilment of external compliance and taxation obligations, mitigating risk and ensuring audit-readiness.
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and the elimination of material discrepancies.

Your Profile

A CA/CPA qualified Finance Professional, you will be a decisive yet collaborative leader with a proven track record in a hands-on financial management role. Ideally coming from a background in financial reporting, you will possess strong and demonstrable experience across governance, tax, financial control and reporting.

Approachable and accessible, you will be comfortable in managing a lean team, working towards shared goals and espousing a culture of shared responsibilities and collaboration to achieve outcomes. A practical problem-solver, you will be someone who can use your analytical processing skills to balance the immediate reporting needs of the business with a wider ability to drive broader business improvements for the benefit of those both inside and outside of Finance.

As a hands-on leader, you will be comfortable working with the team to achieve results during high-pressure times as well as being someone who can utilise the quieter moments as opportunities for coaching and development, both within your own team and across the broader business.

Ideally, you will have a background in Financial Accounting as well as experience in managing a Tax function and will have honed a communication style which gives you comfort in presenting to all levels within a business.

Prioritising culture, fostering a high-performing and highly motivated team, you will both benefit from and espouse a working environment which encourages all to achieve their potential whilst working for an international business with very much a local feel.

This is a great opportunity for a talented finance leader to take their career to the next level with a great business.

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