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Commercial Finance Lead
Contract Type:
Full Time
Location:
Sydney
Industry:
Accounting
Contact Name:
Yolande Maritz
Contact Email:
yolandem@axr.com.au
Contact Phone:
0416 671 448
Date Published:
04-Sep-2026
Partner with business leaders, and shape commercial strategy across a diversified portfolio.
About the job
A newly created Commercial Finance Lead role, with genuine influence over commercial reporting, insights and strategy across a diversified portfolio. You'll work closely with senior leadership and business unit heads, with real input into how the business understands and improves its performance.
About the company
A privately-owned property group with a substantial portfolio and complementary business interests, generating strong, consistent income. Being privately owned means less bureaucracy and faster decision-making when something needs to happen, it happens, without layers of sign-off slowing things down.
What you'll do
What's on offer
A newly created Commercial Finance Lead role, with genuine influence over commercial reporting, insights and strategy across a diversified portfolio. You'll work closely with senior leadership and business unit heads, with real input into how the business understands and improves its performance.
About the company
A privately-owned property group with a substantial portfolio and complementary business interests, generating strong, consistent income. Being privately owned means less bureaucracy and faster decision-making when something needs to happen, it happens, without layers of sign-off slowing things down.
What you'll do
- Take ownership of budgeting, forecasting and commercial reporting across a multi-entity portfolio, and find better ways to deliver it
- Work alongside business unit leaders to unpack what's driving performance, test their thinking, and help steer decisions across the group
- Bring a strategic lens to P&L performance, surfacing risk and opportunity through scenario planning and sensitivity work
- Contribute to how the group's assets are valued, including analysis that supports banking and funding conversations
- Get involved in treasury matters, including debt facilities and the reporting that comes with them
- Help inform how the group thinks about capital allocation and funding, including the modelling that sits behind those decisions
- Strengthen the group's forecasting and budgeting muscle so it can keep pace with a growing, multi-faceted business
- Champion smarter ways of working, including practical use of AI to sharpen reporting and insight
- Jump into ad hoc projects and analysis as business priorities evolve
- CA/CPA qualified, with 10+ years' relevant experience
- Background in listed or private property businesses is essential
- Strong FP&A experience, ideally gained across a diversified or multi-entity structure
- Comfortable getting into the weeds of a P&L to explain the real story behind the numbers
- Has led and developed people before
- Confident engaging with senior stakeholders and owners
What's on offer
- Direct pathway to senior leadership
- High visibility with business owners
- A newly created role you can shape from day one
- No red tape — real autonomy and trust to make decisions





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