Overview
Financial Controller Jobs in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at Regal Innovations
Title: Financial Controller
Company: Regal Innovations
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Company Description
Innovative Thinking. Extraordinary Outcomes.
Experience the excitement of building a career in an evolving commercial landscaping business where people make amazing things happen. Together, let's enhance every environment for generations to come.
This is Regal Innovations.
Regal is a trusted partner in the commercial landscaping industry. For 50 years, we have been creating iconic public spaces by transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. We work closely with all levels of government, developers, builders, and urban planners across Australia.
Our landscape and civil expertise cover all aspects of design and construction, including green and blue infrastructure, heritage and cultural works, as well as ongoing project maintenance. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, as we believe it leads to truly exceptional outcomes for our clients and the community.
The Role
The Financial Controller will lead the day-to-day finance function and provide accurate, timely, and commercially relevant financial information to support Regal Innovations’ continued growth and project delivery performance.
This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone who understands project-based businesses and can effectively partner with operational teams across construction, maintenance, and civil works.
Your impact
You will play a key role in strengthening financial control, improving project profitability, and supporting better commercial decision-making across the business.
Your every day
- Own the month-end and year-end close process, including journals, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and management reporting.
- Prepare monthly financial reports, board/management packs, and commentary on performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
- Assist with annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes.
- Ensure statutory compliance and support external financial reporting requirements.
- Liaise with external auditors and support audit processes.
- Oversee project accounting, including job costing, WIP, claims, variations, retentions, cost-to-complete, and margin analysis.
- Partner with project managers and operational leaders to improve project profitability, cash flow, and forecasting accuracy.
- Provide financial input into tendering and estimating, including pricing reviews, overhead recovery, and margin analysis.
- Identify and escalate early financial risks such as margin erosion, under-recovery, billing delays, and working capital pressures.
- Maintain strong financial controls across revenue recognition, WIP, cost allocation, project margins, payroll, AP, AR, and fixed assets.
- Oversee leave accrual reporting (annual leave, sick leave, long service leave).
- Monitor aged debtors and proactively flag issues.
- Review supplier terms and credit applications.
- Improve and standardise finance systems, reporting tools, workflows, and internal controls across states and business units.
- Ensure financial policies and procedures are clearly documented, practical, and consistently followed.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial reporting efficiency and accuracy.
- Work collaboratively with operations, estimating, procurement, payroll, HR, and senior leadership to provide clear, commercially focused financial insights.
Who are you?
- CA or CPA qualified.
- Experienced in a Financial Controller, Finance Manager, or senior finance leadership role.
- Strong background in project accounting, including WIP, job costing, margin analysis, and cash flow management.
- Experience in construction, civil works, infrastructure, landscaping, contracting, maintenance services, or similar project-based industries.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge with experience in month-end close, audit, tax, and statutory reporting.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong financial systems capability.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central and Procore.
- Strong commercial judgement with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful business insight.
- Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail.
Personal Attributes
- Hands-on, practical, and commercially minded.
- Strong communicator who can simplify complex financial information.
- High integrity with excellent attention to detail.
- Proactive, organised, and able to manage competing deadlines.
- Improvement-focused with the confidence to challenge and refine existing processes constructively.
Success Measures
- Accurate and timely month-end close.
- Improved visibility of project margins, WIP, and cash flow.
- Stronger forecasting accuracy and budget discipline.
- Reduced manual reporting and improved process consistency.
- Enhanced financial support to project managers and senior leaders.
A career with us
Regal is an equal opportunity employer. Our teams are comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. With aligned ways of working, we overcome challenges, advance our careers, and outperform competitors.
- Staff perks and benefits offered to build an engaged and talented workforce include:
- Tailored professional development opportunities for career advancement.
- Opportunities to work on a wide variety of exciting and complex projects.
- An annual social calendar of fun activities and events.
- A full kit of uniforms.
- A great work culture that will make you feel like part of the team.
We’re committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, inclusive, free from bias, and accessible to all candidates.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
