Financial Controller

📋 Description

• • Own the end-to-end financial control function for one of Australia’s fastest-growing clean-tech scale-ups, directly influencing how Smart Energy decarbonises Australian homes and scales nationally.
• • Partner with the CFO and executive team to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that steer strategic decisions, capital allocation, and M&A opportunities.
• • Ensure 100 % compliance with Australian Accounting Standards, ATO regulations, ASIC reporting, and corporate governance frameworks across a multi-entity group structure.
• • Produce fully reconciled monthly Balance Sheet and P&L statements, raising accruals, provisions, and journal entries to guarantee timely, accurate EOM close within five working days.
• • Lead the annual external audit from planning to sign-off, liaising with auditors, implementing recommendations, and continuously tightening internal controls and risk frameworks.
• • Calculate and lodge all taxation obligations—BAS, PAYGW, PAYG, Payroll Tax, Superannuation—working closely with external accountants and the HR Manager to eliminate penalties and surprises.
• • Publish a Quarterly Finance Digest that distils key metrics, margin drivers, cash-flow trends, and strategic initiatives for the entire business, lifting financial literacy and accountability.
• • Drive process optimisation across invoicing, purchase-order compliance, accruals, and reporting documentation, leveraging automation, AI, and offshoring to cut manual effort by 30 %.
• • Maintain a rolling 12-month reporting calendar aligned to team capacity and cross-functional deadlines, ensuring stakeholders know exactly when and how financial insights will land.
• • Share weekly DSO and cash-flow dashboards with Sales and Operations, enabling faster collections, healthier working capital, and data-driven customer payment strategies.
• • Champion margin-improvement initiatives by analysing profitability by product, region, and channel, then presenting clear levers to Sales, Procurement, and Executive teams.
• • Oversee post-acquisition integration of finance systems, chart-of-accounts mapping, and compliance frameworks, ensuring new entities are onboarded within 90 days.
• • Mentor and upskill a high-performing finance team, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, commercial curiosity, and customer-centric service delivery.
• • Act as the go-to finance business partner for Sales, Marketing, and Operations, translating commercial objectives into robust financial models, budgets, and KPIs.
• • Build scalable policies and procedures that support 100 %+ year-on-year growth without adding proportional head-count or complexity.
• • Present monthly results packs to the CFO and Directors, spotlighting variances, trends, and forward-looking risks/opportunities in plain English.
• • Evaluate and implement new tech stacks—Xero, Salesforce, Power BI, AI forecasting tools—to future-proof finance capability and deliver real-time insights.
• • Foster a fun, high-energy team culture that celebrates wins, encourages innovation, and aligns every finance initiative with Smart Energy’s mission to create a cleaner planet.