Senior Strategy & Finance Manager

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About Linkly

Linkly   is a PE-backed, Australian fintech focusing on payment integration solutions. We are a leading provider in ecommerce recurring billing, and our middleware powers over 200,000 terminals and processes over two billion transactions annually. Our applications support over 800 integrations into POS solutions. We have built our reputation through seamless integration of payment terminals and POS systems and are continuing to innovate in creating a terminal and acquirer independent payment solicitor for in-store. Our clients include major banks and retailers such as Woolworths, David Jones, JB Hi-Fi, and Bunnings.

Our goal is to continuously lead the payments industry with   new technology   delivering value to clients, which who include merchants, banks,   acquirers   and POS vendors, expanding our presence into other regions.

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About the Role

The Senior Strategy & Finance Manager owns Linkly's financial modelling, FP&A, accounting operations and strategic finance projects. You will build and own the financial models that drive forecasting, pricing and planning, and turn them into clear insight for executives and the Board. You will lead the accounting function, manage an Accountant and own month-end and year-end audit processes. Alongside this, the role brings a corporate finance lens to pricing, M&A and market assessment, drives finance process transformation, and champions the use of AI to make the finance team faster and sharper.

Based in Sydney, the role works closely with the CFO, the Head of Strategy and the accountant on the finance team, and with the Commercial team on pricing and revenue forecasting.

Key Responsibilities

Financial modelling & analysis

- Own Linkly's financial models for forecasting, pricing and planning, ensuring they are structured, documented, version-controlled and review-ready.
- Analyse performance by segment, explaining trends, drivers and variances.
- Proactively flag risks, cost-out opportunities and performance gaps.

Accounting operations & team leadership

- Manage and develop the Accountant.
- Oversee accounting processes, ensuring accuracy and strong controls.
- Own month-end, including the close, P&L, segment cuts, KPIs and commentary.
- Manage the year-end audit with external auditors.

Budget, forecast & planning

- Run the monthly rolling reforecast end-to-end.
- Own the annual budget and 3-year plan.
- Target forecast variance of ≤3% on revenue and EBITDA.
- Consolidate business inputs into a single, defensible view of performance and outlook.

Board reporting

- Prepare Board and executive reporting to a PE-backed board standard.
- Build PowerPoint packs that turn complex analysis into a clear, actionable story.

Commercial partnering, pricing, M&A & market assessment

- Act as the Commercial team's finance partner on pricing and revenue forecasting.
- Run pricing analysis and deal costings, and support deal review and contract approval.
- Support M&A with modelling, valuation, market sizing, synergy assessment and due diligence.
- Size new markets and growth opportunities, and pressure-test the assumptions.

AI, process improvement & transformation

- Help lead finance process transformation to improve efficiency, control and scalability.
- Embed AI into the finance team's ways of working.
- Deliver process improvements, particularly reducing month-end close time, and share reusable tools across the team.

What You'll Need

- 6 + years' experience in FP&A, or in corporate finance / valuations (e.g. investment banking, transaction services, strategy consulting with a finance focus).
- Strong financial modelling: builds models others can audit, trust and reuse. This is essential.
- Strong PowerPoint and storylining: can turn analysis into a clear executive or Board narrative. This is essential.
- Advanced Excel and sound understanding of what drives a P&L.
- Comfortable presenting numbers and trends to CFO / executive audiences.
- Genuine interest in using AI to work smarter; curious about new tools and willing to embed them.
- Exposure to B2B software, payments or technology businesses preferred.

Nice to have

- People management experience, ideally leading or developing finance or accounting staff.
- Experience managing or coordinating end-of-year audits with external auditors.

Our Values

- Act Like an Owner: Take full accountability for outcomes and make decisions with the long-term success of Linkly in mind.
- Innovate: Challenge assumptions, champion new ideas and drive meaningful change for customers and the business.
- Deepen Trust: Build confidence through integrity, transparency and consistent delivery with your team, partners and clients.
- Care and Respect: Foster an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to do their best work.