Commercial Accountant

Newcastle NSW | Full-time permanent

• Newly created role in a fast-scaling, PE-backed business
• Opportunity to shape the finance function and build its commercial reporting capability
• Genuine flexibility, output-driven culture, Friday lunches and drinks, and a strong team environment
• Newcastle-based head office

About the Business

Our client is a fast-growing, PE-backed business headquartered in Newcastle. As the business continues to scale, they are looking for a commercially minded finance professional to strengthen reporting, analysis and decision-making across the organisation.

About the Role

This is a newly created role with genuine scope to make an impact. You will partner with senior leaders and operational teams to turn financial data into clear, actionable insights.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analyse performance across entities, regions, channels, customers and products to identify trends, risks and opportunities
• Build and automate reporting across revenue, margin, costs, cash flow and profitability
• Provide financial analysis to support pricing, tenders, contracts, investments and other commercial decisions
• Partner with Sales, Supply Chain and other teams to improve commercial outcomes
• Monitor customer and contract profitability and identify margin leakage and improvement opportunities
• Prepare cash flow forecasts and monitor FX exposures and hedging activity
• Develop dashboards and management reporting that provide timely, actionable insights
• Identify opportunities to automate and simplify finance and broader business processes

About You

You will be a CA or CPA qualified finance professional with strong commercial accounting experience and a genuine interest in using data to drive better business decisions.

You will bring:

• Strong financial modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis and cash flow skills
• Experience with a large ERP such as SAP, Pronto, Oracle or similar
• Advanced Excel capability
• A commercially curious, hands-on approach and confidence working in a scaling environment
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgement and the ability to manage competing priorities

Experience with FX/hedging, sales or distribution businesses will be highly regarded, but is not essential.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to join a growing business at an exciting stage of its journey and help build the commercial finance capability that supports its next phase of growth.

If you're looking for a role where you can have genuine influence, work closely with the business and see the impact of your work, we'd love to hear from you.