Own the accounting function for a fast-growing global fintech, including month-end close, general ledger, reconciliations, management accounts, revenue recognition, audits, tax compliance, payroll, controls, consolidation, intercompany accounting, and FX. Build scalable finance processes, automate close and reporting workflows, lead system changes, and provide actuals and analysis for forecasting, board reporting, and fundraising. The role requires hands-on execution, cross-functional collaboration, and close partnership with auditors, advisers, and international entities.
Constantinople delivers a new era of AI-native banking. Constantinople provides banks with a fully-managed software and AI operational platform, which brings together customer experience, product, data, operations, compliance and infrastructure in a single platform.
Constantinople’s AI-native platform eliminates the need for expensive infrastructure, and replaces manual operational and compliance processes with AI at scale. By removing the operational complexity of banking, Constantinople enables our client banks to focus on their customers and the business of banking.
The Role
You will be our first Finance Manager, reporting to the Head of Finance. You will own the accounting engine of a business that is scaling and going global, and you will be hands-on in the numbers every day.
You will also shape what our finance function becomes: which processes we bring in-house and when, how we automate them, and when we add people to the team. You will work alongside our Head of Finance, who leads planning, forecasting, capital raising, and the board, and you will provide the actuals and analysis behind that work.
You will work with our auditors, tax advisers, and local providers in new markets, and with teams across the business who rely on clean, timely numbers, including our bank customers when they request financial information. This role suits someone who wants to do the work themselves and help define its scope. It is not a role for building and managing a large team in your first year.
We are a fast-growing startup with momentum. LinkedIn ranked us #5 on its Top Startups Australia list in 2024 and named us again on the 2026 list. We are signing new bank customers and expanding into new markets.
What you will do
- Own the month-end close, general ledger, reconciliations, and management accounts, to a standard an auditor would sign off.
- Own revenue recognition for our enterprise contracts under AASB 15.
- Run the statutory audit, from planning to sign-off.
- Own our annual R&D Tax Incentive claim, including eligible cost apportionment, supporting evidence and documentation, and the link to capitalised development costs, working with our R&D advisers.
- Manage tax compliance, including BAS, PAYG, FBT, payroll tax, and superannuation, and work with our advisers on income tax.
- Own payroll and financial controls.
- Manage consolidation, intercompany, and FX as we add entities in new markets.
- Map our finance processes and recommend which to bring in-house, which to keep with specialist partners, and in what order. Then lead the transitions at a pace you set with the Head of Finance.
- Look to automation and AI first, and help the business decide when to add people and what kind of capacity we need, so finance stays lean and high-leverage as we scale.
- Design and build automation across the close, reconciliations, and reporting, with the right controls around it.
- Recommend and lead the system changes we need as we scale internationally.
- Provide the actuals and analysis behind forecasting, board reporting, and fundraising.
Who you are
- You are CA or CPA qualified (required).
- You have 3–5 years in audit at a Big 4 or large mid-tier firm, ideally with technology, software, or financial services clients.
- You have 2–4 years in-house as a Senior Financial Accountant, Finance Manager, or similar, doing the close yourself.
- You have hands-on experience with AASB 15 revenue recognition on complex enterprise contracts.
- You have exposure to consolidating multiple entities, including intercompany and FX.
- You have a record of building or fixing finance processes, not only running them.
- You have automated or built something that runs today, such as scripts, workflow tools, ERP rules, or AI-assisted processes.
- You are an ambitious doer who wants your work to have a big impact.
- You prefer doing the work to reviewing it, and you would rather help define your scope than be handed a fixed one.
- You are excited to challenge yourself in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Nice to have
- Experience at a venture-backed software company scaling through 100–300 people.
- Experience bringing an outsourced finance process in-house.
- Experience with R&D Tax Incentive claims or capitalised development costs.
- Experience setting up or running overseas entities, payroll, or transfer pricing.
- Experience leading an ERP migration, for example from Xero to NetSuite.
- Experience supporting vendor due diligence for banks or other regulated customers.
Application process:
If this sounds like the kind of opportunity you've been looking for, select the 'Apply Now' button below to submit your cover letter and resume. Use your cover letter to introduce us to you; we want to know who you are, what you've worked on and why you think you'd be a great addition to the Constantinople team.
Inclusion
To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.
Constantinople Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2000
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