Financial Controller

AirTree’s looking to add a full time Financial Controller to our team!

About AirTree 

Based in Sydney, we’re one of the largest and most active venture capital funds in Australia and New Zealand. If you join us, you get to work with many of the most exciting startups in our region - Canva, A Cloud Guru, Secure Code Warrior, Prospa, Brighte, Athena, Joyous - the list goes on and on!  We raised our latest fund late 2019 and now manage over $600m. 

We’re a down-to-earth team with a diverse set of backgrounds but the same passion: startups and technology. Our mission is to find and back the best Australian and Kiwi founders and help them achieve their vision. We are committed to building a world class VC platform in Australia. This is an opportunity to get involved early, help shape AirTree and make an impact on our region’s tech ecosystem.

We’ve written a lot about the work that we do at AirTree, check out our Medium page. Some key info to read: AirTree’s year in review 2019 and our team bios.

About the role

This is a full time position. 

The role is crucial to AirTrees success, you will be responsible for the accounting for our funds, working closely with our Partner, external accountants and external auditors.  

The core goal of the Financial Controller is to ensure that AirTree’s accounting functions run smoothly ensuring our  stakeholders receive an excellent experience.  These stakeholders include Investors, founders, regulatory agencies and internal stakeholders. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be a core part of the AirTree team.

What you’ll do

●      Fund accounting - preparation of the fund accounts including entering transactions, reconciliations, valuations, month end journals, preparing financial reports, fund audits and the financial component of our reporting to Investors.

●      Management Company accounting - working with our external accountants to ensure accurate and timely reporting including internal financial reporting, budgets and audits.

●      Calls and Distributions - implementing calls and distributions from the fund to the investors (seamless experience for our investors and founders)

●      Reporting - regular, timely, accurate and insightful reporting to our investors (including regulated superannuation funds)

●      Compliance - working closely with the team to ensure that AirTree is at all times compliant with policies and regulations, especially relating to AFSL, ESVCLP, AML/KYC and FATCA.

●      Portfolio reporting - regularly collecting information from our portfolio companies

What you won’t do

You will not be responsible for Investor relations; this is a separate role within the team.

About you

●      You are self-directed, flexible and detailed focused.  You’re comfortable working in a fast paced environment with changing priorities.

●      You are a systems thinker.  You relish organising chaos and implementing frameworks and systems.

●      You have strong accounting and finance modelling skills (CPA or CA or equivalent qualifications)

●      You have experience within a fund’s management environment, Private Equity or Venture Capital is preferred.

●      You are a strong communicator.

Location and flexibility

The role is based in Sydney. 

AirTree is a flexible, family-friendly workplace.

Diversity and inclusion

We celebrate and value diversity and we are committed to being inclusive in the way we hire and in the way our team works together.

The first step in our application process is fully anonymous. We won’t know any identifying information about you until your answers have been selected to go to the phone interview round.

We also strongly encourage you to apply even if you are not sure you fit all of the criteria we’ve mentioned. All our roles involve a range of skill sets and we recognise that everyone has different strengths and experiences that can add lots of value to our team.

How to apply?

Submit your application using the instructions at the top of this page.

From the initial submissions we’ll select a smaller group for phone/video interviews with someone from our team or an external recruiting partner, and then a set of finalists for in-person meetings. We hope to finish the process by March 2020 and have you working with us as soon as possible after that.

We can’t wait to meet you!