Commercial Finance Director

Commercial Finance Director

Build the financial engine behind a high-growth tech business scaling globally.

In a nutshell

This is a hands-on leadership role for a senior commercial finance operator who knows how to turn numbers into decisions and decisions into growth.

You’ll own and elevate the finance function end to end, shaping pricing, guiding strategy, improving performance visibility, and ensuring the business scales with financial discipline.

Our client is a proven, profitable tech business with strong growth. What’s missing is a finance leader who can bring structure, clarity, and commercial rigour as the business scales.

If you’re excited by the challenge of stepping into a business that works and making it work better, this role is for you.

Why this role?

Our client is a high-growth B2B tech company helping businesses remove harmful, unwanted, and damaging online content at scale using proprietary systems and deep operational expertise.

They’re deep in scale-up mode with strong revenue and profitability that is growing aggressively

Although headquartered in Australia, they are a global business. The majority of their customers are based in the United States, with additional customers across Canada, the UK, and Europe.

They’re in scale-up mode

• Revenue and profitability are strong and growing aggressively
• International footprint already established
• Clear opportunity to optimise pricing, margins, and growth efficiency
• Leadership team in place, with appetite for better financial decision-making
• Systems and structure ready to be improved and scaled

Finance is now at the point where it needs to shift from reporting what happened → to shaping what happens next.

What you’ll be owning

You’ll take full ownership of the finance function (currently 1 fte), with a clear mandate to drive commercial impact, not just reporting.

Commercial & Strategic Finance

• Partner with the CEO and leadership team on growth strategy and key decisions
• Own pricing, packaging, and commercial model design
• Evaluate new revenue opportunities and operational investments
• Bring clarity and rigour to decision-making across the business

Financial Planning & Performance

• Own forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis
• Build a clear financial view of what’s driving growth, cost, and profitability
• Move the business from reactive reporting to forward-looking insight
• Support leaders with scenario modelling and decision support

Remuneration & Incentives

• Design and manage company-wide compensation and incentive structures
• Ensure incentives actually drive the right behaviours and outcomes
• Continuously evolve models as the business scales

Finance Operations & Systems

• Own financial governance, cashflow, and reporting accuracy
• Improve systems, processes, and automation alongside the tech team
• Ensure the finance function is scalable, efficient, and reliable

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a small, capable finance team
• Set standards, drive accountability, and improve output quality
• Stay close enough to the detail to maintain control, without getting stuck in it

What this role is (and isn’t)

This role is

• A strategy-through-execution finance leadership role
• A scale-up operator position with real commercial influence
• A hands-on role where you’ll build, improve, and optimise
• A seat at the table with direct impact on growth and performance

This role is not

• A pure CFO / board-only reporting role
• A large corporate finance position with layers of support
• A job where finance sits on the sidelines

What we’re looking for

You’re a senior finance leader who understands how businesses actually grow, not just how to report on them.

You’re commercially sharp, comfortable in ambiguity, and able to balance structure with speed.

You’ve likely operated in a scale-up or mid-sized environment where you’ve had to think, act, and adapt quickly.

Must-haves

• CA qualified with strong technical finance fundamentals
• MBA ideally
• Proven experience in a senior finance role within a high growth scale-up (ideally tech, SaaS, or recurring revenue)
• Strong commercial finance capability, pricing, modelling, and decision support
• Experience building and managing remuneration and incentive structures
• Comfortable owning both strategy and hands-on execution
• Strong communication skills, able to challenge and influence

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in subscription or SaaS business models
• Exposure to international operations (e.g. US market)
• Experience improving systems, reporting, and finance automation
• Worked closely with non-finance senior leaders (COO, GM, etc.)

Who this role is for

You’re pragmatic, direct, and outcome-focused.

You don’t hide behind reports, you use them to drive action.

You’re comfortable making calls with imperfect information and taking ownership of results.

You enjoy building structure where it’s needed, but you don’t overcomplicate things.

You want a role where you can actually influence how a business grows—not just observe it.

The perks

• Competitive salary
• High-trust, high-autonomy environment
• Direct access to CEO and be part of the leadership team
• Opportunity to shape the financial direction of a scaling business
• Hybrid working environment

Ready to make finance matter?

If you’re looking for a role where finance is more than reporting and where your work directly impacts growth, performance, and direction, we’d like to hear from you.