Chief Financial Officer

• Newly created executive role — partner a CEO and an ambitious Board at a respected community organisation
• Bring commercial discipline to purpose-driven work, including oversight of our social enterprise
• Be part of an organisation that makes a real difference to people’s lives

About the job

Role location:     Slacks Creek 

Role type:            Permanent, full-time  

Pay range:           Negotiable based on skills and experience, with salary packaging exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax available

This is a newly created role, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

YFS is at a point where finance needs to do more than report on what has already happened. Our Board is active and ambitious, our Strategic roadmap is genuine, and we need a Chief Financial Officer who can tell us what we can afford three years out and five years out, not simply this financial year.

You will be a valued partner to a CEO and leadership team working with an ambitious Board, a credible voice at the Risk & Audit Committee, and the person who maps our financial model against our strategy and keeps it honest.

What makes this unusual is our social enterprise. Few not-for-profit CFO roles come with a genuine commercial business to oversee — its model, its margin, its growth and its reinvestment, appreciating value, not just costs. If you have commercial instincts, there is real scope to use them here.

We are also looking for someone who will hold the line in good times as well as difficult ones. Running lean when funding is strong is what allows an organisation like ours to keep serving its community when funding is not. We think of that as custodianship, and it is central to how we want this role performed.

You will lead a finance team of six and have genuine scope to shape how the function works.

In this role you will:

• Provide financial strategy, and advice to the CEO, the Leadership Team and the Board
• Deliver multi-year financial modelling that tests our strategy against what we can actually afford
• Complete Board and Risk & Audit Committee reporting
• Provide financial and commercial oversight of our social enterprise
• Develop and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders including funding bodies, insurers, property & lease negotiations, commercial customers and partners of the social enterprise
• Oversee financial governance, internal controls, risk management and the external audit relationship
• Provide leadership and enhance development of a finance team of six, and the systems and improvement agenda that supports them

About you

Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related role description available from the link below, you’ll be a great fit if you are or have:

• CPA or Chartered Accountant, with a relevant degree
• Senior finance leadership experience and the confidence to hold your own with an engaged Board
• A track record of building multi-year financial models that connect strategy to financial capacity
• Strong commercial acumen and comfortable assessing business performance, margin and investment decisions
• Experience leading and developing finance teams, and a genuine willingness to delegate
• The ability to make financial information usable by people who do not work in finance
• A commitment to social justice and to work that changes outcomes for people facing adversity

https://www.yfs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HR13_RD_ChiefFinancialOfficer_v0_0826_103414.pdf (copy & paste pathway to your browser)

Interested?

Apply with your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job.

People from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people who identify as part of the LGBTIQA+ community, are encouraged to apply.

Contact Tamara Charlton on 07 3826 1500 if you want to talk about the role.

Closing date: Wednesday 2 September 2026 at 5pm

Initial interviews are scheduled for 7 September 2026 with follow up interviews on 22 September 2026.