Financial Controller

Stake is looking for a Financial Controller to join our wonderful Finance team, at our brand new CBD office, within a flexible hybrid working model! We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration. At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way. About this role Stake is looking for a commercially minded, technically strong and highly collaborative Financial Controller to uplift the maturity of financial control and risk management across the Finance team. As a senior member of the function, you’ll build scalable processes, drive efficiency and support customer-centric outcomes while also shaping and accelerating Stake’s treasury capability. You will be joining our high-performing Finance team who enables and supports our Australia, New Zealand, India and Brazil operations during an exciting hyper-growth phase. Opportunity to work in a truly customer-centric environment where innovative and seamless products and services are evolving the way Australians and Kiwis invest. Further responsibilities include: Risk & controls: Strengthen finance risk frameworks and implement robust, well-tested controls across key areas (P&L, balance sheet, tax) aligned with Stake’s risk appetite. Systems & processes: Ensure best-in-class tools, controls, and workflows across finance operations, including reconciliations, payments, integrations, and audit trails. Governance & policies: Maintain financial policies and support compliance, while contributing to broader cost management and governance initiatives. Business partnering: Act as a strategic finance partner to Product and Operations, embedding financial discipline into processes and product decisions. Reporting: Own end-to-end month-end close and deliver accurate, timely management and statutory reporting for leadership and the Board. Audit, tax & regulatory: Lead audits, manage external advisors, and ensure full compliance with tax and regulatory reporting requirements (e.g. AFSL). Data & insights: Build a reliable single source of truth for financial and operational data, enabling accurate reporting and decision-making. Continuous improvement: Drive process optimisation, automation, and scalable finance systems to improve efficiency and reduce manual work. Leadership: Lead, coach and develop a team of accountants; set objectives, manage performance and ensure high quality deliverables and succession planning. Strategic support: Support the Head of Finance and Senior Finance Business Partners on finance strategy, forecasting, budgeting and initiatives to scale the function and inform commercial decisions.

7+ years accounting experience with significant ownership of close, statutory reporting and audit. CA/CPA preferred. Demonstrated experience in fintech, payments or other complex ledger systems; comfortable with GL integrations and data pipelines. Strong regulatory and ideally some tax experience, including working with AFSL or comparable regimes. Proven track record uplifting controls and embedding risk frameworks. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with experience partnering with Product/Data/Engineering teams to drive commercial outcomes. A practical mindset for process improvement and automation, backed by a track record of implementing scalable processes.