Careers at Linfox

Finance Manager – Corporate Services | Group Finance   

Permanent - Full Time | Essendon Fields, VIC  

About the Role

The Finance Manager – Corporate Services plays a key leadership role within the Group Accounting function. This position leads a team of three and partners closely with senior leaders across Corporate Services, commercial teams, and operational business units.

This role is ideal for a seasoned Senior Financial Accountant or Finance Business Partner ready to step up, or an experienced Finance Manager looking to broaden their scope in a dynamic, complex environment. You will play a critical role in statutory reporting, budgeting, forecasting, governance, and business partnering, while also driving continuous improvement initiatives and strengthening financial control.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Corporate Services Finance team, overseeing all weekly, monthly, and year‑end close processes and delivering accurate, timely financial reporting.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning, ensuring robust governance of balance sheet controls and financial processes.
• Coordinate statutory reporting and audit requirements across multiple entities, ensuring compliance with AASB, IFRS and internal standards.
• Consolidate, prepare and distribute weekly and monthly group reports for senior leadership, identifying opportunities to enhance reporting accuracy and timeliness.
• Partner with the business to deliver financial insights and lead key projects focused on revenue assurance, financial governance and continuous improvement.
• Lead, mentor and develop the finance team, fostering a high‑performance culture and ensuring effective communication, KPI alignment and people management compliance.

About You

You are a proactive, solutions-focused finance professional with strong technical capability and a collaborative approach. You enjoy leading people, partnering with stakeholders and improving systems and processes.

You will also bring:

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field, with CA/CPA/CFA qualification.
• Experience across financial accounting and management reporting, ideally in logistics, transport, supply chain, or a similarly complex industry.
• Strong statutory reporting experience.
• Background in budgeting, forecasting, P&L analysis, compliance and governance.
• Experience managing and developing diverse financial teams.
• Proven ability to drive systems and process improvements (SAP/S4HANA highly regarded, not essential).
• Ability to navigate complexity, influence senior stakeholders and build trusted relationships.

Sound like you? To apply for this position please follow the link on the careers section of the Lintranet and enter 762025 into keywords.

Further information. Applications close on Friday the 20^th of February 2026 at 11:55pm.  

At Linfox we are committed to your career development, and we encourage you to discuss your career aspirations with your manager. As a courtesy and recognising our values, you are required to inform your current manager of this application prior to attending a 1^st interview.

You will be required to meet Linfox's employment criteria which will include, but not be limited to, a criminal history check and full medical with a drug and alcohol test.