This is a rare chance to step into a genuinely high-impact finance leadership role. The business manages a premium portfolio of hotel and hospitality assets across Australia and New Zealand. They now need an experienced GM of Finance on a 12 month contract, reporting directly to the Managing Director.
You'll take the reins of a multi-site finance function from day one — leading a Senior Finance Manager (operational finance) and a Financial Controller (reporting and tax), and making sure both teams are aligned, accurate, and delivering insight the leadership team can actually act on.
Role duties:
- Lead, mentor and maintain accountability across a large, multi-site finance team.
- Leading and aligning two direct reports (over 20 indirect reports) across operational/transactional finance and reporting/tax
- Leading month-end close and multi-entity consolidation across the portfolio
- Partnering with leadership on strategic, commercially sound decisions
- Mentoring and developing a high-performing finance team
- Strengthening and stress-testing internal trust tax forecasting models
- Running scenario analysis on tax structuring to maximise investor yields
- Overseeing cross-staple pricing and distributions for ATO compliance
- Acting as primary technical interface with parent company Head of Tax and Big 4 advisors
- Projecting quarterly distribution components ahead of year-end statements
- Owning budgeting, forecasting and end-to-end month-end at business unit level
- Owning the financial integrity and strategic growth agenda for the organisation
- Ensuring the accuracy of financial data and turning it into insight that drives real decision-making
- Partnering with the leadership team to inform strategic, commercially sound choices
- Continuously seek areas for enhancement within processes and systems and take initiative to drive and implement these changes
- Proven experience as a GM of Finance, Finance Director or Senior Financial Controller, ideally within hospitality, retail, multi-site or asset-heavy operating environments
- A track record of leading and mentoring finance teams through direct reports
- A strong technical accounting background across statutory reporting and tax
- Strong commercial acumen and comfort with complex, high-volume cash flow environments
- Confidence engaging and influencing senior stakeholders
- A resilient, detail-focused, "own the outcome" mindset
