Based in Melbourne's South East, our client is a highly reputable and fast growing player within the Building Products sector and have experienced exciting double digit year or year growth for the past 5 years'. This is a newly created role due to sustained growth that will partner with the executive team and CEO to pave out further expansion plans.

Reporting into the Executive GM with a dotted line into the CEO, your remit will be focussed around:

• Deliver best practice finance leadership both strategically and operationally, ensuring the highest standards of data quality and integrity are maintained.
• Lead the team to deliver commercial business partnering approach in decision support across the business
• Oversee the preparation & ensure the accuracy of the monthly executive reporting to Directors & CEO's
• Full responsibility for financial accounting and reporting including presenting the results to the CEO and GM
• Establish and continue to build strong relationships with current financial institutions and financiers to ensure ongoing source of working capital facilities and asset funding lines
• Prepare financial business cases for capital investments, commercial proposals evaluation, and the analysis of strategic procurement and costings
• Delivery of internal quarterly forecasts and annual budgets and in turn developing financial strategy, and opportunity forecasting
• Working with key stakeholders on key business acquisitions, including due diligence requirements, finance system integrations, finance function integration
• Ownership of key account performance reporting including KPIs and the Savings.
• Drive critical projects including Benchmarking and Online Dashboards
• In conjunction with the CEO, lead due diligence and analysis in all corporate development activities

Key criteria

• CA/CPA qualified
• You have proven experience of leading a finance division within a growing SME that has faced rapid growth ($10-$70 mill T/O)
• You will have a minimum 5 years’ experience in a financial management role (Finance Manager, Financial Controller, Head of Finance)
• Strong commercial acumen, attention to detail, proactive and communication skills
• You will have demonstrated strategic experience of driving best practice and delivering the full remit of accounting and finance obligations and related reporting
• You have proven experience of leading a finance division within a growing SME that has faced rapid growth

This is a truly exciting opportunity to utilise your commercial skills and assist guiding the growth trajectory of this industry leader. Please feel free to call Adam Schofield on 0423 204 927 for more information or email your CV through to: aschofield@sharpandcarter.com.au

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