Finance Manager

Responsible for overseeing end-to-end fund accounting, financial reporting, compliance, tax, treasury, and commercial business partnering within a fast-paced asset management environment, ensuring strong governance, accurate reporting, and strategic financial support across investment and portfolio activities.

About MA Financial Group:

MA Financial Group is a global alternative asset manager specialising in private credit, real estate and hospitality. We lend to property, corporate and specialty finance sectors and provide corporate advice. We invest and manage $9.9 billion on behalf of our clients, have $128 billion in managed loans and have advised on over $120 billion in advisory and equity capital market transactions (as at September 2024).

We have a team of more than 800 working in Australia, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Philippines and the United States. MA Financial is a place of opportunity and unlimited potential. It’s a place that empowers you to think, collaborate, and help create something truly valuable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee end-to-end financial reporting across fund and asset structures
• Prepare consolidated management and statutory financial reports
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax, and regulatory requirements
• Manage fund accounting activities including unit pricing, distributions, and fee calculations
• Oversee cashflow, treasury, and capital management across portfolios
• Support tax compliance, reporting, and structuring activities
• Partner with investment and asset teams on transactions and performance analysis
• Provide financial insights to support commercial and strategic decisions
• Manage external stakeholders including auditors, administrators, and advisors
• Drive process improvement, systems enhancement, and financial controls
• Support capital raising, investor reporting, and stakeholder engagement
• Mentor and support development of junior team members

We are looking for applicants with the following experience and attributes:

• Fund accounting experience including a strong working knowledge of the operating architecture and requirements of major Australian asset management assets such as real estate property.
• Strong technical accounting background
• Strong understanding of the Australian tax system for both direct and indirect taxes for both Australian and International investors
• Experience managing audits, external providers and stakeholders
• CA or CPA qualified
• Strong technical accounting and analytical capability
• Commercial mindset with ability to influence decisions
• High attention to detail with ability to manage competing priorities
• Proactive, solutions-oriented and process driven