Finance Officer
Lyka Pet Food, Australia
Job Description
About Lyka
Our capes are on to reshape an industry built around a highly processed and unnatural diet. We're here to make Australian dogs healthy and happy from the inside out through real food so that they can live their best life. We are an investor-backed, high growth startup, looking for a highly motivated and ambitious Finance all-rounder to help support our Financial Accounting and Planning activity.
As a well-funded and ambitious start-up with incredibly high growth potential, you will have the chance to influence the foundations of Lyka's Finance team at a highly impactful and exciting stage of the business, as we embark on the next stage of growth.
About the role
In this role, you will be responsible for performing and signing off Lyka's financial and regulatory accounting requirements (including payroll and BAS) and performing critical budgeting, forecasting, and demand planning activity plus other relevant financial analysis to enable sustainable growth for the company.
You will also manage the upcoming ERP implementation, utilising your functional expertise to manage implementation requirements and liaising with external ERP consultants to ensure the successful implementation of the future ERP.
You will be a true business partner, working closely with other business stakeholders across operations to oversee both financial and operational issues.
Key responsibilities
- Manage and perform all bookkeeping functions for Lyka, including payroll, BAS, month-end close, and year-end close
- Perform periodic and relevant ad-hoc financial analysis to inform key business decision-making for stakeholders across the business
- Partnering with business stakeholders to complete financial and accounting expertise across the business
- Perform budgeting, forecasting and planning activity, including demand planning to inform daily production activity
- Manage Financial KPIs and support the Operations team to improve financial performance continuously
- Utilising Finance and ERP functional expertise to inform ERP design during the upcoming ERP implementation
Requirements
Benefits
- Work in a fast-growing start-up: this is the opportunity to lead what goes behind the scenes to sustain Lyka's high growth
- Growth and Development: this role will truly give you the opportunity to move beyond pure Finance or accounting, and stretch into the broader business
- Be part of a very diverse team, coming from widely different backgrounds and geographies
- Dog-friendly office: hang out with the original Lyka, and bring your own furry-loved ones
- Competitive salary and equity package