Finance Manager | Media/Entertainment

• Join a scaling organisation in the creative sector!

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)