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How we recruiter a Financial Controller

About the client

Our client is an integrated manganese and silicon metals company. They are engaged in the business of mining and trading ores, as well as the smelting and marketing of processed ferroalloys.

  • Location - West Perth, WA
  • Industry - mining and metals
  • Size - 350 employees

We applied our three-phase service delivery model for this recruitment drive.

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About the client

Video job advertisement

Social media algorithms favour videos over still content, so we create video advertisements for all vacancies to help source our candidates.

We take full advantage of this unique and highly effective form of candidate sourcing in order to reach the right candidate at the right time. 

We post our videos on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. They are posted on these platforms 10-20 times, based on relevance. Our videos typically receive over 1,000 views within the first 24 hours.

Job advertisement

We constantly refresh, rewrite and reformat our job advertisements to optimise the quality of applications received. Our approach is aggressive - we post around 20 advertisements for every permanent job. Advertisements are posted on:

  • Job boards - Seek, Adzuna, Glassdoor, Indeed and Jora
  • Social media - LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
  • 11 Recruitment's website

On average, our advertisements receive over 100 applications and perform well above the market benchmark for Seek, shown in this graph.

Financial Controller

  • Permanent full-time role offering attractive salary
  • Key role supporting the CFO
  • Strong team-based culture

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is an integrated manganese mining business and has an established history of over 20 years in the industry. They are also listed on the ASX and capture value across the entire process chain through operations in Australia and other countries.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our client is looking to strengthen their senior leadership team with the addition of a passionate and inspirational Financial Controller. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will lead an established finance team who are passionate and motivated to drive the business forward.

The duties for this role will include:

  • Leading / managing the transactional finance team
  • Preparing statutory reporting
  • Coordinating, preparing and executing internal and external audits and reviews
  • Supporting and managing month-end and year-end processes
  • Conducting monthly operational and financial reporting
  • Conducting half and full-year reconciliations - impairment assessments, revenue adjustments
  • Conducting financial data analysis and reporting on KPIs
  • Managing day-to-day financial transactions, including quality control and data integrity
  • Maintaining and reviewing cash flow
  • Internal control - enforcing, implementing and improving
  • Providing operational financial support to the various department heads
  • Assessing and implementing new accounting standards
  • Assisting the CFO with preparation and management of tax, budgeting, forecasting, and royalty-related matters

ABOUT YOU

This role will suit an experienced Financial Controller who has a sound understanding of financial management, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, and reporting.

The successful candidate will have:

  • CA / CPA qualification
  • Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
  • Demonstrated experience in ownership of statutory reporting
  • Leadership / management experience

Assessment Matrix design

Our in-house designed, custom made software generates an Assessment Matrix, which is our blueprint for the recruitment process. Our process consists of screening, interviews, document verification, skills testing, personality profiling and reference checks.

Ticks indicate the point at which each criteria is addressed. More importance criteria are checked multiple times throughout the recruitment process.

Selection criteria

Screen

Interview

Docs.

Profiling

Refs.

Education






CA / CPA qualification

✓

✓

✓



Experience






Ownership of statutory reporting

✓

✓



✓

Transactional finance team management

✓

✓



✓

Audit / review coordination, preparation and execution

✓

✓



✓

Month / year-end process management

✓

✓



✓

Monthly operational and financial reporting

✓

✓



✓

Half / full-year reconciliations

✓

✓



✓

Quality control / data integrity

✓

✓



✓

Cash flow maintenance and review

✓

✓



✓

Implementation and assessment of new accounting standards

✓

✓



✓

Stable work history

✓

✓



✓

Other






Microsoft Excel - intermediate

✓





Work from home

✓





Verify LinkedIn vs CV

✓

✓



✓

Accept expected salary range ($150k)

✓

✓



✓

Previous warning of termination?

✓

✓



✓

Behaviour






Dominance - 60%


✓


✓


Influence - 45%


✓


✓


Steadiness - 39%


✓


✓


Compliance - 47%


✓


✓


Forms signed






Health / police check



✓



Signed document - tell the truth



✓



Docs verified






Driver’s licence

✓


✓



Citizen AU / NZ or PR

✓


✓



DISC profiling

Similar to people, jobs have their own behavioural profile that is based on duties, environment and communication. We create a profile for every job vacancy, enabling us to match an applicant's behaviour against that of a specific role.

We use DISC, which examines the following attributes:

  • Dominance - accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence
  • Influence - persuading others, openness, dependability
  • Steadiness - cooperation, sincerity, dependability
  • Compliance - quality, accuracy, expertise

DISC profile - Financial Controller

Financial Controller

Shortlisted candidates

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Behavioural adaptation by candidates to match the job profile:

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Results

Our aim is to produce a strong shortlist by sourcing widely. We measure every stage in our recruitment process to ensure we meet this key objective.

Our service comes with an extended 18-month replacement guarantee. This guarantee means our interests are mutually aligned - to recruit high achievers who will excel and stay.

Video views

1,008

Applications received

82

Interviewed by 11 Recruitment

6

Shortlisted

4

Interviewed by client

4

Hired

1

Christian Madsen | Managing Director

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