Financial Manager

Finance Manager | Odd Culture Hospitality Group

About the role

You will be the financial custodian of Odd Culture Group — the person who reviews what the bookkeepers produce with a venue operator's eye, holds transactional control of the payment and payroll cycles as a bank signatory, owns cash controls and cash flow, and drives supplier costs down. You'll work directly with the CEO and have genuine influence over how the group manages its money.

Key responsibilities

• Review the weekly and monthly P&Ls with full operational context — identifying missing or unexpected bills, incorrect allocations and anomalies the bookkeepers cannot see, and ensuring the accounts reflect what actually happened in the venues

• Own the group invoice tracker: know what bills are expected each week, by venue and department, and chase gaps before they distort reporting

• Deliver reviewed P&Ls to the CEO with commentary on variances, trends and margin performance

• Act as the primary counterpart to the outsourced bookkeeping partner — resolving their queries quickly, ensuring they have timely and complete information, and holding their output to standard

• Audit supplier bills to ensure invoice line items reflect agreed group pricing and quantities delivered

• Identify line items where the group is paying above market, and action the response: benchmarking, renegotiation or running a competitive tender process

• Negotiate supplier pricing and terms across the group, and monitor ongoing compliance against agreed rates through the purchasing platform

• Audit company card and petty cash expenditure, and staff discount usage, on a regular cycle

• Prepare rolling cash flow forecasts, ensuring funds are available for every major commitment — IAS, BAS, payroll tax and loan repayments — ahead of lodgement and payment dates

• Own the group's physical cash controls: daily takings, cash sheet and safe count audits; receiving, counting and reconciling cash banking against POS reports; and investigating discrepancies with Operations

About you

• CA/CPA qualified (or equivalent), with significant experience at Financial Controller or Finance Manager level

• Hospitality is essential to this role — you know what a venue's cost lines should look like, and you notice when they don't

• A forensic eye for detail: you find the missing bills, mis-postings and margin leaks that slip past transactional processes

• Strong commercial instincts — comfortable benchmarking costs, negotiating with suppliers and running tender processes

• Experienced working with (and getting the best out of) outsourced bookkeeping or shared-services teams

• A person of demonstrable integrity — this role carries bank signatory authority and transactional control, and full background and reference checks will be conducted

• Ambitious to grow with the business into a group leadership role

About us

Odd Culture Group is an independent Sydney hospitality group with a portfolio of venues and an ambitious growth agenda.

Benefits

• Genuine ownership of the group's commercial finance function, reporting directly to the CEO

• Flexible part-time arrangement available (3 - 4 days per week pro-rata)

• Based at Enmore HQ with hybrid working available

• 50% discount across our venues

• An established bookkeeping engine already in place — so your time goes to the work that moves the needle