General Manager - Finance

Summary about this job

Detail information about job General Manager - Finance. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Generous five weeks annual leave with the ability to purchase more
• Family friendly and flexible workplaces
• Salary packaging benefits that greatly increase take-home

Churches of Christ in Queensland, Financial Services, Kenmore Head Office

Permanent, full-time opportunity 

About the role

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will be responsible for providing leadership and coordination of a large finance team, ensuring the team provides proactive and client focused services enabling improved financial management across the business.

In this position you will be enabled and encouraged to think and perform things differently. You will manage the fiscal reporting activities for the organisation, including:

• Leading and mentoring a high performance team of 35 FTEs;
• Preparing accurate monthly reports for the organisation on operational performance, including the preparation, analysis and monitoring of the annual budget;
• Driving piercing insights through divisional financial reporting;
• Audit and Statutory reporting requirements;
• Spearheading the finance transformation through project work including system implementations. 

About you

You are a dynamic, "hands on" and confident leader who thrives on making a difference. Your analytical nature and high degree of professionalism and initiative will be imperative to succeed. It is also important that you are a highly organised, efficient person with the ability to listen to the needs of both management and staff. In addition you possess solid experience leading and managing a diverse range of accounting functions in a multi-cost centre environment.

Your demonstrated competence in setting and delivering business targets by owning the annual planning and forecasting process in diverse businesses with revenues in excess of $250m will set you apart in being successful for this role.

Your qualifications and experience should also include:

• Tertiary qualifications in accounting and must hold either CPA or CA qualification;
• Five years minimum of broad finance/business, including technical accounting, management accounting, financial control, operations and a diverse business exposure;
• Solid experience obtaining comprehensive knowledge of all relevant fields (FBT, GST, AASB and Internal System Controls);
• A collaborative and flexible working style, always striving for organisational excellence;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including willingness to present reports to Directors/Management Team in a logical and concise manner;
• Proven experience in implementing new processes and systems to ensure the efficient processing of all accounting transactions;

Importantly, you will be someone who closely aligns with our organisational values of: modelling unconditional love; behaving with integrity; and being good stewards.

Who we are

We offer over 200 services in more than 100 communities, positively impacting around 45,000 lives each year. Our care services range from children, youth and family services, early intervention and protection, affordable housing, and seniors and support living, making us one of Australia's largest, most diverse not-for-profit organisations.

We take great pride in what we do. Consequently, we look for people of the highest ethics and professional standing. Our fields of expertise range from marketing and communications, information technology and quality assurance to management and government relations.

Imagine working for us

Our values encourage us to be accepting of differences and embrace all. Our size and variety offers you real choice and opportunities to grow your career. You'll also find we offer a family friendly work culture.

Remuneration packages come complete with salary-packaging benefits that can increase your take-home pay along with a generous five weeks of annual leave and the ability to purchase more (for eligible employees). To ensure your career can grow, we are constantly exploring innovative training and development programs. Most importantly, you will help us to positively impact the lives of thousands of vulnerable Australians. Just imagine that.  

To apply

To apply for this position please click the Apply button. For further information, please contact Michael Brand 07 3327 1660.

We actively encourage and invite applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all our positions.  

Applications close: Applications will be processed as they are received