Senior Manager – Finance & Business Control

About the role

Motivate Events & Media is seeking a hands-on, commercially minded Senior Manager – Finance & Business Control to strengthen financial discipline, business performance, internal controls and management accountability. The role reports to the Chairman, works closely with the General Manager and department heads, and gives the Chairman independent visibility on the business's health. It is not a purely accounting or supervisory-only position.

Key responsibilities

• Review the company's financial position, bank balances, liquidity and short-term cash needs, and monthly management accounts
• Monitor receivables, overdue collections, payables, capital expenditure and payroll costs
• Prepare and maintain an 8-12 week rolling cash-flow forecast and monitor working capital
• Coordinate the annual budget, track actuals against budgets and maintain rolling forecasts
• Review project budgets, margins, costing and post-project profitability, and highlight projects with insufficient profit or cash contribution
• Monitor business-unit performance (events, media, production, event fab) and key client profitability
• Support the authority matrix, segregation of duties and procurement controls, and escalate risks to the Chairman
• Produce a weekly dashboard for the Chairman and take part in monthly management reviews

Required profile

• About 8-15 years of relevant experience
• Previous experience as Financial Controller, Business Controller, Commercial Finance Manager, FP&A manager or similar preferred
• Experience in project-based businesses such as events, advertising and media, construction, engineering or fit-out highly desirable
• Analytical, hands-on, detail-oriented and comfortable challenging decisions professionally

Required skills

• Management accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• Cash-flow management, working capital and project costing
• Strong Excel and analytical skills; ERP and management-reporting experience highly desirable