Finance Manager

Grow your Accounting and Finance Career with a role at Athena, the FinTech Lender of the year and Home Loan Wrecker.

We’re looking for a technically strong and commercially aware Finance Manager to take ownership of financial control, compliance reporting and the integrity of our general ledger and trust accounting at Athena. 

You’ll be joining a community of like-minded individuals committed to excellence, growth, and integrity. This is a hands-on leadership role at the centre of our Finance function, working alongside broader business areas and directly contributing to the ongoing success of the company.

About the role:

Reporting to the Head of Finance & Corporate Development, you will carry design authority and operational responsibility for the financial control function. You will be expected to identify gaps, challenge existing frameworks, and implement improvements with minimal direction.

As a Finance Manager in our team, you will gain exposure across all aspects of accounting and finance, with a focus on financial control & operations, including:

• Financial Control & Reconciliation Framework
  • Own and continuously improve the control & reconciliation framework across all material financial events, including customer cash flows, trust allocations, redraw processing, GL updates, and inter-entity transfers.
  • Implement and operate per-trust cash allocation reconciliations, moving beyond total cash integrity to independent allocation checks across Athena’s funding vehicles.
  • Maintain the bottom-up event-based control framework, ensuring every material financial event has a documented control owner, frequency, and independent source of truth.
  • Partner with Treasury, Technology, and Operations to ensure the control framework keeps pace with business complexity from new products, new funding vehicles, and system changes.
• Management Accounting & Financial Operations:
  • Take ownership of various month-end processes, including manual journals, reconciliation of cash flows, processing of payments, Treasury & Trust accounting, write-offs, and refunds.
  • Ensure high levels of compliance to applicable accounting standards and tax laws are always maintained.
  • Take ownership of the year-end process, including preparation of statutory accounts and being the direct point of contact for Auditors, assisting with audit queries and requests, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Taxation:
  • Assist with tax research & planning and internal advisory, including GST, R&D, FBT, and income tax.
• Corporate Finance & FP&A:
  • Assist with budgeting, forecasting and financial planning, including ad hoc analysis as required.
• Process Improvement:
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of finance processes and procedures, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CA qualified preferred (Athena is a CA recognised training employer).
• 4-6 years post-qualification experience in Audit or Risk in a Professional Services Firm. 
• Be an Australian Citizen or Australian Permanent Resident when you apply.
• You are an intellectually curious, self-directed operator who takes accountability for outcomes.

Additional Benefits & Perks

• You will be supported by finance and business leaders who bring deep expertise from global accounting firms, investment banks, consulting firms and other diverse industries.
• Inclusive, flexible and casual working environment.
• Hybrid working with HQ anchor days in award winning office space.
• Wellbeing program to support your physical, mental, social and financial health.
• Perks program with access to discounts to everyday expenses.
• Fantastic team culture with monthly events.

Meet Athena, the Home Loan Wrecker

Athena Home Loans burst into the industry in 2019 to shake things up and change home loans for good.

We're reimagining home loans and showing Australia there's a lender on their side. Home loans are all we do. We continue to rewrite the rules of home lending, creating tools, products and policies that put the power back in our customers' hands. Athena has been recognised amongst multiple consumer lending and industry awards including Canstar Outstanding Value and Innovation Excellence awards, RateCity and Mozo awards, and Fintech Lender of the year and made AFR Boss best places to work list.

We place the power of independence in our customers’ hands and in yours. At Athena, you shape the pace and the place shapes you. Can-do and will-do, every person makes a big difference. Released from traditional hierarchy and norms, you’re free to be the person you know you are and want to be. Athena adds layers to your learning, not layers of bureaucracy, so you can do what you do best.

If you’re looking to shake things up and make a difference in a diverse, unified team with no sharp elbows, we’d love to hear from you.

At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. 

Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.