Finance Manager

Finance Manager

Reports To: Head of Finance (Sydney)

Office Location: Sydney, Australia

Role Overview

The Finance Manager is responsible for overseeing the financial operations, providing accurate financial reporting, ensuring compliance with regulations, and supporting strategic financial planning. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work cross functionally with other departments to drive financial performance and optimise financial resource allocation across our Sydney projects.

The Finance Manager will work collaboratively, directly reporting into the Head of Finance (Sydney), whilst supporting the larger Melbourne based Finance team with accurate financial information across our projects.

Main Accountabilities

• Financial Reporting: Ensure the accuracy of monthly financial accounts and management reports for STH Group's Sydney programmes, providing senior management with insights to drive informed decision-making.
• Manage P&L and Balance Sheets: Guarantee the accuracy of financial records by reviewing monthly balance sheet reconciliations and P&L statements against budget and forecast, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.
• Month-End and Year-End Reporting: Adhere to month-end and year-end close timetables, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and reconciled. Maintain proper documentation for audit and tax purposes to ensure compliance and transparency.
• Cash Flow Management: Optimise the use of working capital by managing company cash flow, monitoring requirements, and identifying risks and opportunities to maximise liquidity.
• Statutory Reporting and Tax: Ensure compliance by coordinating the review and submission of tax filings, including GST, payroll tax, and other statutory returns.
• Regulatory Compliance: Maintain adherence to accounting standards, policies, and procedures, and support audits to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Align budgets with organisational goals by coordinating and assisting in their development. Monitor departmental budgets, analyse discrepancies, and propose corrective actions to maintain financial health.
• Staff Training and Development: Providing professional guidance and identifying opportunities for training and career development to enhance team performance.
• Process Enhancement: Improve operational efficiency by identifying and proposing process and workflow enhancements to senior management.

Key Experience

• Qualification and previous experience: CA/CPA or CIMA qualified with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Financial and management accounting expertise: Proven track record of preparing and reviewing month end accounts and the preparation of year-end financial statements.
• Budgeting and financial planning: Strong experience with budget and forecast preparation, ability to undertake scenario analysis with a focus on commercial and technical finance recommendations to senior management.
• Financial systems and software proficiency: Experience using SAP is desirable with strong capabilities in Microsoft excel.
• Supervision in Finance function: Be an effective team leader and foster the professional development of dotted line junior team member.

Desirable Competencies

• Meticulous Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy and completeness in all financial documentation and reports.
• Proactivity: Exhibits a forward-thinking approach, anticipating and addressing potential issues before they escalate.
• Adaptability and Flexibility: Adapts to changing financial environments and business needs, maintaining effectiveness under varying conditions.
• Organisation and time management: Prioritises and manages competing deadlines and can deliver output within communicated schedules.
• Strong Interpersonal Skills: Capable of engaging effectively with both internal team members and external parties, ensuring clear and effective communication.

Who We Are

STH Group is a Sodexo Live! company, with offices in London, Miami, Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney, enabling a truly global reach and service offering.

Our Company partners with event owners to make the biggest sporting events in the world - even better! From the Olympic Games in London and Tokyo, the Cricket World Cup in England & Wales to the Rugby World Cups in Japan, England, New Zealand and France, our award-winning team cover the globe to create travel and hospitality programmes with one simple ambition – to leave sports fans knowing they have just been part of an experience of a lifetime.

Through joining STH, you can be part of a motivated, high-performing team that thrive on the excitement of working to bring fans to the heart of the action at the biggest sporting events in the world. We have a collaborative and driven culture, that focuses on collective success and empowerment – maximising opportunities to be innovative in our service offering and ensuring development opportunities are fruitful for our team!

What We Stand For

STH Group identify the below values as fundamental commitments for every member of our team. Like the athletes we admire and connect with fans, we use these as our guiding compass in everything that we do, which supports a “one-team” mentality, culture-code and aligned directive.

• Service Spirit: We are customer obsessed, encouraging our teams to anticipate expectations and take pride in all services they deliver.
• Spirit of Progress: We strive to be trailblazers, we seek continuous improvement and innovation in everything that we do.
• Team Spirit: We thrive on winning together, delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers, employees, partners and the communities in which we operate.

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