Finance Manager | Media/Entertainment

Richmond Permanent AU$140,000 - AU$160,000 per year View Job Description
This Finance Manager role with a growing business in the film, media and production sector offers broad exposure across financial reporting, treasury, lending, budgeting, business partnering and multi-entity group accounting, working closely with the CFO and CEO to support the organisation's ongoing growth.
  • Join a scaling organisation in the creative sector!
  • Clear progression pathway and excellent CFO

About Our Client

My client is a growing business in the media/entertinament sector delivering high-profile projects, known for its strong culture, entrepreneurial environment and ambitious growth plans.

Job Description

  • Own the month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations and core financial reporting.
  • Manage the group bookkeeper day to day, including training on accounting practices where required.
  • Assist with production accounting where required
  • Maintain consolidated accounting practices, including intra-group recharges, inter-entity loan relationships and job costing.
  • Contribute to entity structuring exercises as they arise, including reviewing the group's position against relevant legislative changes.
  • Prepare and lodge BAS across group entities.
  • Engage directly with the external auditors on the financial statement audit.
  • Support preparation of the consolidated tax return with external advisers
  • Manage group treasury, covering both day-to-day cash and forward-looking cash planning.
  • Support financial modelling for new loans.
  • Manage the end-to-end project loan flow: help prepare loan documentation, capture key financial data in the loan database, and report to investors, borrowers and other stakeholders.
  • Assist with budgeting and forecasting across the group's business units.
  • Help build new finance and business systems, structures and processes as the company grows.
  • Work closely with internal teams, the CFO, the CEO and global stakeholders



The Successful Applicant

  • Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance or related
  • CA or CPA qualified
  • A bubbly, outgoing personality
  • Strong technical accounting foundation, including month-end close, reconciliations and financial reporting.
  • Open to a strong first time mover from mid tier business services
  • Experience with, or solid exposure to, consolidations across multiple entities.
  • Experience working with auditors and tax advisers, and sound knowledge of BAS and GST.
  • Advanced Excel skills and confidence building or supporting financial models.
  • Clear communicator who can work directly with senior leaders and external stakeholders

What's on Offer

  • Genuinely positive and collaborative culture where people enjoy coming to work.
  • Report directly to a high-performing, supportive CFO who is invested in developing their team.
  • Rare opportunity to shape and enhance the finance function as the business continues to grow and evolve.
  • Broad and varied remit spanning financial reporting, treasury, budgeting, planning and commercial business partnering.
  • Join a business operating in a dynamic, creative industry with exposure to exciting projects and stakeholders.
  • Clear career development and progression opportunities as the organisation scales.
  • Convenient office location with excellent access to public transport.
  • Onsite culture - this is a 5 day in office role (with flex on start/finish times etc)
Contact
William Harris
Quote job ref
JN-102026-7134507
Phone number
+61 466 534 114

Job summary

Function
Accounting & Finance
Specialisation
Finance Manager
Industry
Media & Agency
Location
Richmond
Job Type
Permanent
Consultant name
William Harris
Consultant phone
+61 466 534 114
Job Reference
JN-102026-7134507

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