Financial Controller

Fast-paced, commercial, tech-embracing culture

Company Background

Our client is a well-established entertainment business with a strong reputation. This company enjoys a collaborative, commercial and fast-paced culture.

You’ll join a fun, vibrant team and work closely with an engaging, approachable CFO who values clarity, accountability and developing others. The finance function embraces technology and continuous improvement, using modern tools and smart processes to improve reporting, decision-making and efficiency across the business.

Based in Sydney, they offer a hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 days work from home).

The Role

Your role as Financial Controller will be appealingly broad with end-to-end responsibility across team management, financial control, reporting, analysis and business partnering.

Reporting into a talented CFO, you’ll lead a team of four and partner with stakeholders across the business to provide insights, improve outcomes and support key initiatives.

Key responsibilities include (not limited to):

• Oversee end‑to‑end financial reporting (monthly, quarterly and annual)
• Act as custodian of the Group’s financial reporting and accounting practices, ensuring compliance with Australian Accounting Standards and statutory requirements
• Prepare and present statutory and management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting
• Act as the primary point of contact for Auditors
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting and re‑forecasting process, supporting the CFO and leadership team with scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Deliver high‑quality financial analysis and commentary, including variance analysis to budget and forecast
• Provide clear, decision‑ready insights to senior management, Directors and Shareholders
• Own cash flow management and forecasting
• Oversee the Group’s management reporting framework, driving efficiencies through business intelligence and reporting tools
• Own the Power BI financial reporting, including executive dashboards, budget vs actual reporting and variance analysis
• Translate complex financial data into clear insights using dashboards
• Introduce and govern AI‑assisted financial analysis where appropriate
• Act as a trusted business partner to the CFO, Leadership Team and Senior Managers
• Lead finance improvement initiatives and projects

Your Background

To be considered for this Financial Controller opportunity, you will meet the majority of the following criteria:

• Professionally qualified as an accountant (e.g. CA, ACA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent), having worked in a medium-sized business
• Proven experience leading a small team while efficiently managing a company’s day-to-day financial operations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and partner with a range of stakeholders
• Strong cashflow management capability
• Group consolidations experience
• Demonstrated career progression - either an experienced Finance Manager ready to step up or a Financial Controller in a similar broad role as per the outline above
• Experience in a relatable industry (entertainment, events, sport, live productions, media, venues, hospitality or similar) will be highly regarded

If you are keen to apply for this Financial Controller role, please contact David Landau at Richard Lloyd on 02 8324 5641, quoting reference 9842 or click on 'apply now' below.

Please submit your CV in Word format and note that due to the high volume of responses we receive only suitable candidates will be contacted.