At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead finance operations, manage a team, and drive financial strategies across multiple venues.
- Company: Join a dynamic family-run restaurant group in Sydney with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy dining discounts, personal development budget, and flexible work-from-home options.
- Other info: Experience in hospitality or multi-site businesses is a plus; AI in finance welcomed.
- Why this job: Step into a proven path to Group Financial Controller and make impactful decisions.
- Qualifications: CA or CPA qualified with 5+ years in senior finance roles.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 $ per year.
Our last Finance Manager is now our Group Financial Controller. That’s the path this role is built on. We need the person who comes next — someone who can run group finance day to day, lead their own team, and run the whole function when the Group Financial Controller is away.
This isn’t a close-and-report job. Behind Aqua Dining, Sails Lavender Bay, The Nielsen, Ripples and Riva Rose Bay sits a multi-entity group with daily cash and card takings, weekly payroll and a stocktake every month. You’ll own the machinery that makes sense of it — and you’ll have the authority to change how it runs.
What’s genuinely yours:
- The close — every entity, one retail calendar, and a mandate to take it to working day 5
- The cash — a rolling 13-week forecast across the group that the Group Financial Controller uses to make funding decisions
- The team — accountants, bookkeepers and payroll specialists in Sydney and the Philippines; you hire them, train them and decide how the work flows
- The seat at the table — monthly reviews with our Operations Managers, where your numbers change what happens in the venues
- The acting Director role — when the Group Financial Controller is away, you run finance
Why the best candidates will take this:
- The path is proven — we’ve already promoted from this seat to Group Financial Controller
- You build, not inherit — a growing team and real say in how it’s designed
- A finance function that uses AI — we document and query our own procedures with AI-assisted workflows, and we want someone who will push that further
- Fast feedback — daily trade and weekly pay mean your work shows up in the venues within a week, not a quarter
- A personal development budget, dining discounts across our venues, and one work-from-home day a week
You’ll be CA or CPA qualified, with 5+ years in senior finance including ownership of a full month-end close. Fluent in multi-entity — consolidation and intercompany across separate legal entities. From hospitality or another multi-site business with daily trade and weekly payroll. The owner of a rolling cash-flow forecast in your current or most recent role. Someone who has led offshore team members and made them part of the team. Sydney-based and comfortable spending time in our venues.
Bonus points for:
- 2IC experience
- F&B stocktake and cost-of-goods work
- Hospitality award interpretation
- Hands-on use of AI in finance
About SRG Hospitality: SRG Hospitality is a family-run Sydney restaurant group. Every venue has its own personality; behind them, our head office team holds the whole group to one standard — and finance sits at the centre of it.
Finance Manager in Sydney employer: Sydney Restaurant Group
Join SRG Hospitality as the Restaurant Manager at Ripples Milsons Point, where you will have the unique opportunity to lead a new venue from its opening. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will benefit from direct access to senior leadership, ongoing training, and a supportive work culture that values teamwork and integrity. Enjoy dining discounts across all venues and be part of a family-run group that prioritises your development and success in the vibrant setting of Sydney's iconic harbour.
