The Company
Our client is a dynamic and growing property development and investment business with an entrepreneurial mindset and a strong pipeline of projects. The business operates across the full property lifecycle - from acquisition and development through to asset management and investment performance - and has built a reputation for identifying opportunities, moving decisively, and creating value through smart commercial thinking.
With a lean, high-performing culture, the organisation is seeking a commercially astute finance leader who thrives in an agile environment and enjoys being deeply involved in both strategic and operational decision-making.
This is a rare opportunity to join a business where finance is viewed as a genuine commercial partner to the development and investment process.
The Role
Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this role is both a hands-on and commercial CFO position combining financial leadership with development, investment, and asset management decision support. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping commercial outcomes across the portfolio while leading the finance function and supporting the continued growth of the business.
The role will broadly focus across:
- Development and investment decision support
- Asset management and portfolio performance
- Financial leadership, reporting, and systems
- Capital structuring and lender/investor relationships
This is not a traditional institutional CFO role focused purely on reporting and compliance. The business is seeking a commercially minded operator who understands how property deals work in practice and can contribute meaningfully to real-time commercial decisions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the Managing Director and leadership team on development and investment decisions
- Preparing and reviewing project feasibilities, forecasting models, and scenario analysis
- Manage the full finance function from cashflow to the preparation of accurate and timely financial and management accounts as well as Board reports.
- Providing commercial insight across acquisitions, development delivery, stabilisation, hold/sell strategies, and portfolio performance
- Supporting funding structures, project finance, lender relationships, and capital management initiatives
- Managing project-based budgeting, cash flow forecasting, and variance reporting
- Overseeing financial reporting, management accounting, compliance, tax, payroll, audit, and governance functions as well as HR and administration
- Driving systems, reporting, and process improvements through technology and automation
- Supporting investor reporting, capital calls, distributions, and stakeholder management
- Working closely with development managers, consultants, agents, and external advisors to assess project outcomes and commercial performance
- Leading and mentoring a small finance and administration team
The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment where initiative, adaptability, and commercial judgement are highly valued.
The Successful Candidate
The ideal candidate will come from a private property development environment and bring a strong blend of commercial, operational, and financial capability. This opportunity is best suited to someone who has been embedded within a developer rather than operating solely within institutional funds, banking, or advisory environments.
You will bring:
- CA or CPA qualification with tertiary qualifications in Accounting or Finance
- Early career training within a Big 4 or mid-tier accounting environment highly regarded
- Proven experience within a private property developer or property investment business
Strong experience and understanding across:
- Development feasibilities
- Project finance and funding structures
- Project and portfolio reporting
- Cash flow forecasting and budgeting
- Asset-level commercial decision making
- Financial and management accounting
- Leasing impacts on asset value
- Incentives versus IRR outcomes
- Hold versus sell strategies
- Development and stabilisation cycles
- Experience contributing to commercial discussions and strategic decision-making — not simply reporting outcomes after the fact
- Confidence engaging with development managers, agents, consultants, lenders, and external stakeholders
- A proactive, commercially curious, and solutions-focused mindset
- Strong leadership capability with the ability to operate effectively within a lean, high-performing team
- A genuine interest in leveraging technology to improve reporting, processes, feasibilities, and operational efficiency
The successful candidate will be someone who is comfortable operating without a rigid playbook - a commercially minded operator who can think critically, solve problems, and contribute strategically as the business continues to grow.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious finance leader seeking a broader commercial role within a highly entrepreneurial property environment where they can genuinely influence outcomes and help shape the future direction of the business.
For more information, please feel free to contact cam@aligntalent.com.au or luke@aligntalent.com.au
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