Finance Manager
Job Summary
We are seeking a Finance Manager to lead financial operations and build a data-driven management system to support our scaling retail and ecommerce brand. The role involves overseeing financial reporting, cash flow management, budgeting, and strengthening internal controls. The ideal candidate will act as a strategic partner to leadership, utilizing AI tools to drive profitability and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Manage monthly financial reporting and variance analysis
- Oversee cash flow, working capital, and financial planning
- Improve internal controls and accounting operations
- Drive profitability through analytical support to leadership
- Automate finance workflows using AI tools
Required Skills
- 3+ years finance/accounting experience
- Strong proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets
- Experience with ERP, Xero, and BI tools
- Deep understanding of financial controls and compliance
- Data-driven mindset with experience in process improvement
Job Details
Role mission:
Own Sunnystep’s finance operations, reporting, controls, cash flow visibility, and business finance support. This person should turn finance from a reporting function into a management system that helps the company make faster, sharper, and more profitable decisions.
Key responsibilities:
- Own monthly management accounts, financial reporting, and variance analysis.
- Manage cash flow, working capital, payment cycles, and cash visibility.
- Build budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes across retail, ecommerce, inventory, marketing, and operations.
- Partner with leadership to analyze profitability, margins, inventory efficiency, store performance, channel performance, and cost control.
- Strengthen internal controls, approval processes, reconciliations, audit readiness, and compliance.
- Manage accounting operations including AP, AR, bank reconciliation, month-end close, GST/tax coordination, and statutory filings with external partners where needed.
- Improve finance systems, dashboards, workflows, and automation using AI/tools where practical.
- Support grant claims, funding, financing, board/investor reporting, and strategic finance projects.
- Build and lead a lean finance team as the company scales.
What success looks like in the first 6 months:
- Monthly close is accurate, predictable, and completed on time.
- Leadership has clear visibility on cash flow, profitability, margins, and key financial risks.
- Budget vs actual reporting is operating monthly with clear owners and actions.
- Finance controls are tightened without slowing down strong execution.
- Manual finance work is reduced through better systems, templates, dashboards, or automation.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of relevant finance/accounting experience.
- Retail, ecommerce, consumer goods, inventory-heavy, or high-growth SME experience is a strong plus.
- Audit experience is a plus, especially exposure to controls, reconciliations, financial statements, or process improvement.
- Strong accounting foundation and comfort owning month-end close, reporting, reconciliation, controls, and compliance.
- Able to translate numbers into business decisions, not just prepare reports.
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills; experience with Xero, ERP, POS/ecommerce/payment systems, BI tools, or automation tools preferred.
- High attention to detail, strong ownership, and ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment.
- Comfortable building processes from scratch and improving messy systems.
- AI-native mindset: willing to use AI tools and automation to improve finance speed, accuracy, and leverage.
- CPA/ACCA/CA or equivalent is preferred but not required if operating track record is strong.