Chief Financial Officer

About the role

A large privately owned business is looking for a CFO who turns the numbers into plain English and acts as the Managing Director's trusted right hand. The role is office-based in Melbourne, reports to the Managing Director and sits on the Board, leading the Finance function as a commercial and business partner. The business is established and growing, and the CFO will help steer it through its next chapter.

Key responsibilities

• Build FP&A and business partnering into a sharper commercial capability that shows the executive team where the business is heading
• Lead financial control, governance, treasury and risk, lift team performance and build a succession bench
• Explain margin, working capital, cash flow and trade-offs in plain language to build financial confidence
• Challenge assumptions constructively and hold the business to plan, budget, forecast and strategic targets
• Help drive IT strategy, including vendor and cost management, cyber risk and value from new systems
• Support acquisitions, integration and group-level finance as the business grows

Required profile

• Proven CFO or equivalent in a large, complex business; not a first CFO role
• Comfortable challenging others while remaining humble and empathetic
• Hands-on, commercial operator across product, margin and cash, able to explain complex finance to the Board and the shop floor
• Backgrounds in industrial, retail, FMCG or distribution; private, family-owned or PE-backed experience is a plus
• Track record of developing people and improving established teams
• CA/CPA qualified, with MBA or AICD advantageous