Financial Controller (1405-0010)

• →Bank and cards: Daily reconciliation of all bank and card accounts across AUD, USD, EUR and other trading currencies using bank feeds and matching rules; clear exceptions the same day.
• →Accounts Payable: Enter supplier invoices; three-way match of purchase order, goods receipt and invoice on inventory purchases; code indirect expenses; prepare payment-run schedules for CEO approval; maintain supplier master data and terms; manage supplier prepayments and settlement timing.
• →Accounts Receivable and credit: Allocate customer receipts; issue statements; prepare overdue lists and reminder correspondence; set and apply customer credit limits and overdue thresholds within policy; provide a weekly exposure dashboard to the Customer Service Manager.
• →Expenses, cards and payroll: Reconcile corporate cards and expense claims; prepare payroll data for review; reconcile superannuation and leave balances.
• →Inventory and landed cost: Post goods receipts and landed-cost allocations (freight, duty, insurance); stock valuation; slow-moving and obsolete stock provisions; reconcile system inventory to physical counts with the Warehouse Coordinator.
• →Month-end close: Reconciliations and schedules by working day 3 (bank, AP, AR, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, GST); close by working day 5; monthly management pack with P&L by brand and channel, balance sheet, cash, inventory days, DSO/DPO and a one-page narrative.
• →Budgets, forecasts and variance: Build the annual budget with each manager for CEO approval; maintain a rolling 12-month three-way model re-forecast quarterly; own the 13-week cash forecast; monthly budget-versus-actual by department and brand with root causes and corrective actions agreed with the responsible manager.
• →Commercial insight: Gross margin by brand, channel, customer and product at landed cost; fixed versus variable cost and breakeven by brand; support Sales and Brand Management on pricing, rebates and supplier terms with numbers.
• →Foreign exchange: Execute FX transactions and track open positions within the company’s FX Risk Management Policy; monthly revaluation of open foreign-currency balances.
• →Controls and compliance: Segregation of duties and delegation-of-authority matrix; audit trail in NetSuite; quarterly fraud and leakage review; prepare BAS, FBT, payroll tax, ASIC and year-end working papers for the Australian accountants and manage their annual review; fixed-asset register.
• →NetSuite and systems: Own the NetSuite finance module: cleanse MYOB data (debtors, creditors, open purchase orders, unreconciled items), load and verify opening balances, chart of accounts, roles and approvals, bank feeds, saved searches and reports; specify Power BI finance reporting; specify and supervise AI-assisted workflows for bank reconciliation, collections and report drafting; document every recurring process.
• →Procurement interface: Line-manage the Procurement & Supply Chain Manager; approve purchase orders outside the budget envelope; receive the procurement document pack and process payments (Procurement raises no payments).
• →People: Select, onboard and lead the Senior Bookkeeper when the trigger is reached; train managers to read and own their own numbers.

• Philippine CPA (Australian CPA or CA an advantage).
• Minimum 8 years in accounting, including at least 3 in a product-based business (wholesale, distribution, import, retail or manufacturing) with hands-on inventory, landed-cost and multi-currency accounting.
• Has worked for an Australian or New Zealand business or client: understands BAS/GST coding, superannuation, payroll tax and the 1 July – 30 June financial year.
• Has personally run a monthly close end to end and produced a management pack for an owner or managing director.
• Has built or maintained a budget and a rolling three-way model (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) and run monthly variance reviews with operating managers.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience in the finance module (AP, AR, bank reconciliation, period close). Experience on a NetSuite migration or data-cleansing project is strongly preferred; MYOB experience is an advantage.
• Decides exceptions rather than escalating them, and can show it with examples.
• Builds systems: documents processes without being asked; has used automation or AI tools in finance work.
• Strong written and spoken English; comfortable presenting numbers to a CEO and a management team and disagreeing in writing when the numbers call for it.

• Led the finance side of a NetSuite go-live, including opening-balance reconciliation.
• NetSuite OneWorld, multi-subsidiary or consolidation exposure.
• Power BI or NetSuite SuiteAnalytics.
• Has supervised a bookkeeper or small finance team across time zones.
• Experience with Australian customs, Deferred GST and import documentation.

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.

To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:

• Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
• Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)