{"id":2415698,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aje-finance-manager","title":"Finance Manager","company":{"id":2026576,"name":"Aje","domain":"ajeworld.com.au","url":"https://alion.io/company/ajeworld","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Dayforce","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sydney, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":56000,"max_usd":127000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":32},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-12T14:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-13","last_verified_at":"2026-10-14T01:29:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"OVERVIEW \n\nAje Collective is a multi-brand Australian fashion group comprising Aje, Aje Athletica and Aje Studio, with operations across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US and Europe. This is a high-impact opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional with strong technical capability. You will play a key role in ensuring our financial reporting is accurate, timely and compliant with accounting standards and disclosure requirements.\n\nReporting to the Director of Finance, the Finance Manager owns management and statutory reporting, tax compliance and treasury, and leads the finance team, including offshore team members based in Manila.\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\nFinancial Management\nLead the day-to-day management and support of the finance team\nOwn the month-end close process and deliver results on time\nOwn the general ledger, including the chart of accounts, cost centres and profit centres in the accounting system and reporting cube, and maintain it for future new entities\nReview and sign off balance sheet reconciliations and the allocation of expenses, ensuring accuracy and integrity in financial reporting\nInvestigate profit and loss variances against budget, forecast and prior period actuals, and provide detailed analysis of the differences\nAssist the Director of Finance with the annual insurance renewal process\n\nReporting\nKeep the Director of Finance regularly informed of financial performance, raising issues promptly\nPrepare monthly reporting packs, including channel, brand and business performance analysis, plus ad hoc reporting as required\nPrepare monthly department spending summaries, and work with department heads to monitor spend and analyse variances against budget\nPrepare the monthly inventory report to assess aged stock in the business\nComplete government reporting, including ABS and Payment Times Reporting\nAct as a key adviser to the Director of Finance and others on the accounting implications (technical or otherwise) of company decisions and actions, to deliver the optimal outcome\n\nTransactional Functions\nAccounts Receivable: oversee accurate and timely invoicing (including fit-out contribution invoices) and the collection of payments from customers on or within payment terms\nInventory: implement best practice to ensure inventory balances are accurate in each location, in both quantity and cost\nFixed Assets: implement best practice to ensure fixed asset records are accurate in each location\n\nTreasury and Cash Management\nCash management: implement best-practice procedures to maintain an accurate view of cash at all times, including detecting irregularities that may indicate fraud\nCash flow forecasting: manage the 12-month cash flow forecast, refreshing the near-term view weekly and supporting Finance and production heads with cash flow decisions\nBanking: manage transactional banking and merchant relationships to deliver the best outcomes for the group\nAssist with the issuance of bank guarantees for stores as required\nSubmit banking covenant reporting within required deadlines\nSupport the hedging strategy based on current and projected FX rates, and advise the business on the FX rates used in product costing\n\nTaxation\nManage external tax advisers and own the completion of GST/VAT and Sales & Use tax returns in Australia, the US, UK and EU, as well as FBT and payroll tax\nAssist the Director of Finance and external advisers with the Corporate Income Tax return and lodgement of tax returns\n\nExternal Audit\nOwn the end-of-year audit, overseeing the audit process, acting as first point of contact for the external auditors and providing information in a timely manner. You will be responsible for:\nPreparing the financial statements for the AU and UK entities\nPreparing all year-end audit adjustments, including the sales returns provision and AASB 16 lease accounting\nConsolidating all entities and reporting the foreign currency translation reserve\nCompleting reporting and disclosure requests for the statutory audit\n\nFinancial Strategy and Business Partnering\nProvide senior management with financial assessments to support strategic activities, including tax optimisation\nMaintain a continuous focus on the cost of doing business, understand the key cost levers, and work closely with senior management to execute key projects\nWork with the planner on stock control\n\nProcess, Controls and Improvement\nDevelop and implement a best-practice control environment appropriate for a group of our size and aspirations\nEstablish a framework to monitor compliance with these controls, supporting company-wide governance and risk management\nContinuously review and improve processes to drive efficiency across the finance function\nAct as key point of contact for critical finance systems (including the ERP and Adaptive Insights), assess proposed systems and drive finance-related transformation projects\n\nTeam Leadership\nCoach finance team members, including direct reports in Manila, with regular 1:1s with offshore team members\nIdentify training needs and develop team strengths\nSet team goals and evaluate progress and performance\n\nREQUIRED AND DESIRED SKILLS\n\nTechnical and Behavioural\nQualified CA with audit experience at a Big 4 accounting firm\nRelevant retail industry experience, including cash controls, inventory controls and lease accounting\nDemonstrated success implementing enhanced processes and controls in a corporate setting\nExpertise in financial analysis, forecasting and budgeting to support strategic decision-making and cost efficiency\nStrong understanding of local and international accounting standards and financial regulations\nSkilled in identifying and mitigating financial risk, and aligning financial strategy with business objectives.\nStrong leadership skills, with the ability to guide finance teams (including offshore) and collaborate across departments\n\nThe list of position responsibilities herein is not intended to be all-inclusive and may include additional responsibilities as required and assigned. It may become necessary to modify or change this position description and reporting line(s) from time to time.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6130,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Apparel & Fashion Brands"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T03:14:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aje-finance-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aje-finance-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T02:05:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3099,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2026576},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2026576"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faje-finance-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faje-finance-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faje-finance-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/aje-finance-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faje-finance-manager"}]}