The Company

You will be joining a well-established and trusted importer and distributor across Print, Food Packaging, and Manufacturing sectors. With a 40-year legacy and a team of 75 professionals across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Vietnam, this business delivers tailored solutions across Australia and Asia, leveraging global partnerships and relationships.
  
The Role
  
This opportunity is for an experienced finance professional to lead the financial operations and provide strategic guidance across multiple entities and jurisdictions. This is a key leadership role, reporting to the Directors and senior management, where you will drive continuous improvement, foster team development, and align financial strategies with business goals.
  
Key Responsibilities include
  

• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports, budgets, and forecasts.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax obligations, and governance requirements.
• Monitor financial performance and identify risks and opportunities for improvement including the development of strong cashflow modelling and reporting.
• Knowledge of international transactions, currency exchange risk, international payments, logistics and shipping.
• Direct management and mentoring a finance team of seven, including international team members in Indonesia and Vietnam.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Enhance team capabilities through professional development.
• Drive optimisation of financial systems utilising SAP.
• Lead automation initiatives and improve administrative processes.
• Collaborate with directors on financial strategies aligned with business goals.
• Evaluate investment opportunities and manage financial risks.
• Provide insights to drive operational and strategic decisions.
• Maintain adherence to regulatory policies and corporate governance.
• Develop processes to mitigate risks and enhance reporting accuracy.

  
Education, experience and specifics
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business related coupled with CA, or CPA.
• Proven experience in financial management within product-based or Industrial/manufacturing environments.
• Strong Proficiency integrated ERP software.
• Ability to manipulate data and reports in Excel with first hand experience in modern Excel functions.
• Demonstrated success in managing high-performing teams.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Results-driven and detail-oriented.
• Collaborative team player with a proactive mindset.

  
This business is in a high-growth-state and will continue to build on their impressive track record of delivering innovative solutions and products.
  
Curtis Partnership specialises in Property, Sales, Marketing & Operations, Technology, Finance and Accounting recruitment.

Curtis Partnership is committed to supporting inclusive and diverse recruitment. We welcome applicants from all ages and genders, First Nations Australians, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community and people with a disability. If provisions or adjustments in our recruitment process could better enable your application to shine please indicate this at the top of your resume.