Finance Manager

Role Purpose

The Finance Manager is a senior individual contributor with full ownership of finance operations, technical accounting, and financial governance.

The role acts as the primary owner of finance outputs, operating with a high degree of independence with experience operating in project-based, industrial engineering, multi-currencies environments and serves as the key support to the Head of Finance in ensuring the overall integrity, control, and effectiveness of the finance function.

The role will also support finance-related system initiatives, including ERP implementation, ensuring that finance processes, controls, and data structures are appropriately designed and embedded.

What Sets You Apart

You are a hands-on, ownership-driven finance professional who operates with clarity and conviction in complex, project-based environments.

You take responsibility for outcomes, not just processes, and are confident in making decisions, resolving issues and recommending solutions independently, and defending accounting positions when challenged.

You bring structure, discipline, and transparency to finance, and could guide others effectively while retaining accountability for the final output.

Key Accountabilities

1. Financial Reporting & Controlling

• Take full accountability for month-end and year-end close processes and outcome

• Own the integrity, accuracy and completeness of statutory and management financial reporting

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial records and reporting according to local and Group accounting policies, FRS/SFRS reporting standards with reconciliation against US GAAP

• Review financial statements and management reporting packages prepared by the team

• Act as the final reviewer and quality gatekeeper for all finance outputs prior to submission to Head of Finance

2. Finance Operations Ownership

• Own end-to-end finance operations across AP, AR, GL, fixed assets, accruals, and reconciliations

• Ensure finance outputs are complete, accurate, and independently validated

• Resolve operational and accounting issues without reliance on senior management intervention

• Drive consistency, discipline, and quality in finance deliverables

3. Financial Controls & Risk Management

• Support SOX and internal audit reviews, ensuring timely remediation of findings.

• Proactively identify control gaps, execution risks, and process weaknesses, and drive remediation

• Maintain and strengthen internal controls in line with Group frameworks and SOX expectations

• Maintain robust internal controls, proactively identify and address control gaps and execution risks

4. Audit, Tax & Statutory Compliance

• Act as the technical accounting lead for the entity

• Lead external audit end-to-end, including preparation, coordination, and issue resolution in consultation with Head of Finance

• Serve as the primary interface with auditors, resolving issues independently where appropriate

• Defend accounting judgments, estimates, and positions with clarity and technical grounding

• Oversee GST submissions, withholding tax and corporate tax return

• Own corporate tax matters, including current and deferred tax computations, ensuring appropriate recognition, accuracy, and alignment with financial reporting and underlying business activities

• Coordinate with tax advisors, auditors and company secretaries to meet compliance requirement

• Support transfer pricing documentation and MES audit requirements

5. Management Reporting & Budgeting Support

• Ensure management reports are accurate, consistent, and analytically robust

• Provide reliable financial insights to support forecasting, budgeting and decision-making

• Work closely with commercial and operational teams to ensure financial reporting reflects underlying business reality

• Own data quality and integrity in Group reporting packs to ensure quarterly financial analysis and trend reporting to USA HQ provide clear transparency

6. Working Capital & Treasury Oversight

• Monitor receivables, working capital, and cash flow positions

• Oversee cash flow planning and multi-currency liquidity management

• Review and support treasury-related activities, including foreign currency exposure and guarantees, in coordination with Head of Finance

• Ensure cash flow forecast is in alignment between commercial terms, project execution, and cash flow movements

7. Continuous Improvement (Execution-Focused)

• Drive improvements in finance processes, documentation, and handovers

• Reduce manual workarounds and strengthen processes

• Ensure data integrity and reliability across finance systems and group reporting packages

8. Finance Systems & ERP Implementation

• Play a key role in ERP implementation, representing Finance in process design, data validation, and control requirements, in close collaboration with IT and project teams

• Define and validate finance process design, ensuring alignment with accounting policies, control requirements, and operational realities

• Participate in fit-gap analysis, system configuration reviews, and UAT from a finance perspective

• Ensure data integrity, chart of accounts structure, and reporting requirements are properly embedded in the system design

• Identify risks in system design that may impact financial reporting, controls, or audit requirements, and drive resolution

• Support post-implementation stabilisation, ensuring finance processes operate effectively in the new system

Key Requirements

• Degree in Accounting or Finance, or professional qualifications (e.g. ACCA, CPA Australia or equivalent)

• Approximately 8 to 12 years of relevant finance experience, with a track record of owning end-to-end finance operations, statutory reporting, and audit within multinational engineering, industrial, or project-based organisations, including exposure to multi-currency transactions and group reporting environment

• Strong technical accounting background (IFRS / SFRS), including ability to handle judgements and estimates

• Hands-on experience with project accounting, long term contracts or complex delivery models

• Strong working knowledge of corporate taxation, including hands-on experience in current and deferred tax calculations and their impact on financial reporting

• Experience with SOX or structured control environments is advantageous

• Hands-on experience in ERP implementation or major finance system transformation (SAP preferred), with active involvement in finance process design, fit-gap analysis, and user acceptance testing

• Comfortable operating independently with minimal escalation

• Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and advanced Excel; Power BI is an advantage