Financial Controller (Part-time)

Who we are

Skin Confidence Group is a female-founded, family owned and operated business on the Northern Beaches. Fifteen years in skin care, we are on a mission to build a world where skin health no longer holds people back.

We run two e-commerce brands, Skinmart and GLO Skin Body, that thousands of Australians trust, alongside our own treatment centre. We are established and still ambitious, with a lot we are building next.

We are deliberately lean. Decisions are made by people who care about the outcome, and there is no bureaucracy between a good idea and putting it into practice.

Why this role exists

A business that wants to make good, fast decisions needs numbers it can trust. We are rebuilding our finance function from the ground up: clean data, rhythms that are written down rather than held in someone’s head, and systems that flag risk before anyone has to go looking for it.

We are hiring a Financial Controller to own that function. It is a part-time role, deliberately so, and built around the right person.

The role

You are the senior internal finance lead. You own financial control and management accounting, run the cash cycle and the month-end close, direct our bookkeeper, and coordinate with our external accounting firm. You make sure the business always knows, accurately and currently, where it stands.

This is a hands-on role. You are as comfortable setting direction as doing the work yourself, and you treat the function as your own.

Two things at once, and why that is the opportunity

In your first months you focus on the fundamentals and lead a system change. You will own the cash position and supplier payments, take ownership of the month-end close, and lead our move off our current systems and onto Xero. You will have some assistance from our external accounting team who predominantly look after our taxes. You join before the change and help shape the system you will then run on. For the right person, that is the draw.

From there, you build. Once the numbers are clean and the close is reliable, the role grows into something more interesting than most controller jobs ever offer: designing controls and reports that run themselves, keeping our data trustworthy as the business grows, and learning to build finance tooling alongside our own team. Your own routine work is the first thing you automate. We would rather you build a system than ask for another pair of hands, and part-time hours make that leverage matter more, not less.

AI Tools: You will not be doing this on your own, and you do not need to arrive an AI expert. We are learning to work this way as a team, and we would back the right person to learn it with us. If “use good tools to do more with less” is already how you think, you will fit here.

What your first months look like

• Lead the move onto Xero through to go-live: own the plan, build the new general ledger, and run the first close on the new system. That first close is the proof it works.
• Rebuild our processes properly in the new system rather than copying the old ones across, and document them as you go.
• Own the control environment: every transaction captured, categorised, and reconciled, with exceptions that surface on their own.
• Own the cash flow position as the single source of truth, and flag risks early, before they become someone else’s problem.
• Own and run the month-end close to a consistent timetable, with clean accounts and clear separation between the two brands.
• Manage the bookkeeper day to day: set priorities, define process, review the work.

What you grow into

• Monthly management accounts that give a clear, accurate picture, with commentary that explains what the numbers mean, not just what they are.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and real partnering with the rest of the team.
• A reporting rhythm across both brands that, over time, is largely automated and self-updating.

What we are looking for

• CA or CPA qualified.
• Solid experience in a financial control role, with real ownership rather than contribution. If you have stepped back from full-time work and are looking for the right flexible role to return to, we would love to hear from you.
• A track record of running a month-end close independently, including management accounts.
• Comfortable owning a finance system change, or confident you could.
• A genuine appetite for building with AI. You do not need to be an expert at it. You do need to be excited to learn, and happy to do that alongside our team rather than on your own. We would rather hire someone hungry to work in new ways than someone who believes finance should stay the way it has always been.
• Xero experience required. Familiarity with inventory or ERP systems is a bonus.
• Experience with e-commerce, retail, or multi-brand businesses preferred, along with experience managing a bookkeeper or finance support person.

This is not a senior bookkeeping role and it is not a processing role. We are looking for judgment and the instinct to build, not just someone to keep the lights on.

How you work

• You own things. When something is yours, it gets done, and you do not wait to be chased.
• You build processes, because you know knowledge held only in someone’s head is a risk.
• You are comfortable being the most senior finance person in the room and making the call.
• You hold the detail and the picture at the same time.

Why you will want this role

• Flexible and local. Based at Allambie Heights, part-time, school-hours friendly, shaped around your life. Flexibility is the heart of what this role offers, and it is real, not a line in an ad.
• Family owned and values led. You will work directly with the founders, for a business with a purpose it genuinely means.
• Genuinely yours. A lean function you get to build and run your own way, with your work visible and your decisions mattering.
• Part-time by design. Not a stepping stone, and not a full-time job in disguise. If it suits us both it can grow over time, but we are hiring for the role as it stands.

The practical detail

• Part-time, 20 to 30 hours a week, to suit you.
• Based at our Allambie Heights office, Northern Beaches, with flexibility.
• Reports to our Senior Finance Advisor (oversight and escalation), and works closely with the founders day to day.
• Manages our bookkeeper, and coordinates our external accounting firm.
• $120,000 to $150,000 full-time equivalent, pro rata, depending on experience.
• We will make the start timing work for the right person.

To apply or express interest, please get in touch.