Financial Controller

“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” they say - well, our protective eyewear business sure wasn’t either.

From humble beginnings, we began shipping protective eyewear from our bedroom. With support from our amazing community of customers, SafeStyle quickly outgrew our original worksite. Well, that and Dad wanted us out of the house.

Fast-forward a few years, and we’re now a fast-growing Australian lifestyle brand with national momentum, international expansion underway, and a business that needs the right financial leadership to support what comes next.

Our mission has been, and always will be, simple: to provide fashion-forward protective eyewear that anyone can wear from the worksite to the weekend.

With our roots firmly planted in home soil, we collaborate with some of the biggest names in Australia and are building our footprint globally. We’re ambitious about growth, serious about impact and committed to building a business with strong foundations; commercially, operationally and culturally.

If you’re all about high standards, strong numbers and practical commercial leadership, but don’t take yourself too seriously - read on.

👀 You’re a Strategic Financial Controller

This is a senior finance leadership role for someone who can help SafeStyle move from founder-led, fast-growth momentum into a more structured, scalable and commercially disciplined business.

You’ll lead the finance function, provide confidence in the numbers, and support the leadership team with clear, practical financial insight. This role is not just about reporting what happened - it’s about helping shape what happens next.

As SafeStyle continues to grow across Australia, New Zealand, the USA and emerging markets, you’ll play a key role in strengthening financial governance, building forecasting capability, supporting international expansion, and ensuring our finance foundations are ready for the next stage.

This role suits someone who is commercially minded, calm under pressure and comfortable building finance foundations in a growing business. You’ll be encouraged to look for practical ways to improve how things work through better systems, tools, processes and use of data.

🧩 What You’ll Be Doing

Financial Leadership & Reporting

• Own the quality, accuracy and integrity of financial reporting

• Prepare clear management and executive-level reporting

• Provide practical financial insight to support leadership decisions

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and scenario planning

• Highlight key risks, opportunities and performance trends early

Controls, Governance & Risk

• Strengthen financial controls, policies and governance frameworks

• Ensure balance sheet integrity and clean financial records

• Oversee statutory compliance and external advisor relationships

• Review key finance outputs, rather than owning all processing

• Ensure the finance function is audit-ready and scalable

Cashflow & Commercial Visibility

• Provide leadership with clear visibility over cashflow, margins and working capital for all SafeStyle entities

• Support commercial discussions around growth, cost, pricing and investment

• Identify financial pressure points early and recommend practical actions

• Support domestic and international planning with financial modelling and insight

• Manage banking requirements and relationships in collaboration with the GM, including supporting new banking arrangements as SafeStyle expands into new regions

Systems, Tools & Scalable Foundations

• Partner with the Finance Ops Manager to get more out of NetSuite and related tools

• Support better reporting, dashboards and finance visibility

• Encourage scalable solutions through systems, data and process improvement

• Ensure finance foundations can support growth without unnecessary complexity

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and develop a lean finance team, setting clear standards and accountability

• Review outputs and support the team to lift capability, rather than becoming the bottleneck

• Work closely with Sales, Operations, Customer Service, HR and external advisors

• Bring a calm, solutions-focused approach to cross-functional problem solving

• Help support a finance culture that is trusted, commercial and easy to work with

💡 Skills That Pay the Billz

We don’t expect perfection - but these will help you nail it:

• Senior finance experience in a growing, fast-paced business

• Strong financial control, reporting, forecasting and commercial analysis capability

• Experience leading budgeting, cashflow forecasting and management reporting

• Strong understanding of governance, compliance, tax and financial risk

• Commercial mindset with the ability to turn numbers into practical business recommendations

• Experience working with ERP systems - NetSuite experience is highly desirable

• Comfortable working with external advisors, accountants, auditors, banks and legal partners

• Ability to think commercially while staying close enough to the detail

• Calm, pragmatic and confident communicating with founders, executives and non-finance teams

• Experience with international expansion, multi-currency environments or multi-entity structures would be highly regarded

• As would a systems-first mindset, with the ability to improve visibility and control through better tools, reporting and process discipline.

⭐ Perks

Look, it can’t all be one-way, and we recognise this. So, we do our best to look after our fellow Legends with an attractive package and a few legendary perks:

• Becoming a certified “Legend”

• Competitive salary package

• Bonus opportunity aligned to business performance

• 5 Additional R&R days

• Flexible working that supports our worksite-to-weekend ethos

• Paid PPL program

• Annual training and development allocation

• Growth opportunities in a rapidly expanding lifestyle brand

• Fun, collaborative and brand new HQ in Leederville - no egos, just energy

• The opportunity to help shape the financial future of a business with serious growth ahead

If you’re ready to bring financial leadership, commercial discipline and a steady hand to a brand with big ambitions, we’d love to hear from you.

If you're keen to apply, we'll need: 

• Your resume;

• A cover letter that includes answers to the following: 

1. Why SafeStyle - what makes you want to jump in?

2. Tell us about a time you gave a growing business better visibility over the numbers. What changed?

3. Share an example of where you used systems, tools or smarter processes to make finance work better.

4. What does Worksite to Weekend mean to you?

5. If you could be doing anything, anywhere, in the world right now, what would it be?