🖤 Join Kismet as a Senior Financial Controller 🖤

At Kismet, we’re not just building a company—we’re answering a call to solve one of the world’s most pressing problems: making healthcare more accessible, connected, and human.

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial management, including accounting, reporting, budgeting, and compliance. You will work closely with the CFO and Executive team to ensure accurate and timely financial information, drive improvements and automate financial processes, and ensure the company’s financial health.

We're looking for someone who brings more than just technical excellence. We are looking for an individual with a strength in leadership, high integrity and a deep commitment to service that is evident in how they show up. This is a role for a seasoned financial expert who thrives in fast-paced, high-accountability environments and is driven by a desire to make a meaningful impact.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Acquisition Integration: Manage the finance integration of acquired companies, ensuring seamless financial consolidation alignment with company operations. Collaborate with the acquisitions team, solicitors and other stakeholders to oversee and execute the financial aspects of acquisitions; ensuring smooth transitions, accurate consolidated financial reporting, driving cost out programsand adherence to contracts.
• Cash Flow Management: Manage cash flow planning, ensuring the company’s liquidity needs are met. Oversee accounts payable and receivable processes, ensuring efficient cash management practices. Maintain a cashflow forecast, gathering inputs from various stakeholders and oversee adherence of debt covenants
• Financial Reporting & Compliance: Oversee the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in compliance with relevant accounting standards. Experience with consolidated group reporting and building scalable reporting systems Coordinate the annual audit process and liaise with external auditors.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the budgeting process, collaborating with departmental heads to develop annual budgets and forecasts. Track and monitor actual vs. budget performance on the cost side, providing variance analysis and recommendations for corrective actions. Partner with senior team members to advise on plans and investments.
• Internal Controls & Risk Management: Develop, implement, and maintain internal controls to safeguard the company’s assets and ensure accurate financial reporting. Conduct regular reviews of financial processes and systems, recommending improvements where necessary. Identify and manage financial risks, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Create and adjust policies and procedures for the group.
• Payroll Management: Oversee the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely processing of employee salaries, bonuses, and benefits. Ensure compliance with all payroll-related regulations and manage any payroll-related queries or issues. We operate under the SCHADs award, build understanding of the award and the rules.
• Taxation: oversee the companies tax obligations, working closely with advisors and experts to ensure continued compliance.

We are looking for people who are:

• High performers with backgrounds in private equity, professional services (, technology, or other fast-paced environments—who thrive in the fluidity, autonomy, and energy of a start-up setting.
• Energised by a business model that leverages automation to eliminate repetitive tasks—freeing up the team to focus on high-impact work like strategic partnerships, analysis, and driving real-world outcomes.

Essential:

• Deep analytical capability with advanced Excel skills—you don’t just work with data; you interrogate it, find the story, and use it to shape strategic decisions.
• Leadership grounded in integrity, strength, and a strong sense of purpose—you lead by example and bring others along with you.
• Designed and built scalable finance systems. Experience implementing planning, reporting, workflow and analytical platforms that scale across entities, geographies and business verticals.
• Natural relationship-builder—able to earn trust, influence stakeholders, and collaborate across functions.
• Adaptable and curious—you embrace change and are always looking to grow, learn, and improve.

Desirable:

• Experience in M&A or post-merger integration, business systems or process improvement work, or building efficient and scalable operational functions from the ground up. ASX listed company reporting experience.

About Kismet

• Our focus: Healthcare globally is suffering from surging living costs, a rapidly increasing ageing population and growing incidence of chronic diseases. Solving these challenges is what we believe in. It's what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can care for each other better, in real time and without borders.
• Our solution: We connect the physical and digital worlds to help empower greater access to disability and healthcare services at the tap of a button. Healthcare's fractured system complicates managing health plans and services, increasing costs and limiting access. Our solution creates a connected ecosystem, empowering users to focus on their health.

Our values

For us, these are more than just words on a page — these principles guide each decision we make, serving as the path we'll follow to achieve our goals and mission. These values help us build trust with our users, carers, partners, and even amongst ourselves. Our values ensure that we are the same company that stands for the same things no matter our audience.

• Be Humble: we listen to others
• Embrace Change: we learn and adapt
• Be Better: we make each other better

What We Offer

• Impactful Work: Be part of a purpose-driven organisation committed to improving healthcare accessibility and making a lasting difference in the lives of individuals within the disability and aged care sectors. Your work will drive meaningful change and empower those who need it most.
• Exceptional Experiences: At Kismet, we’re on a mission to craft experiences that go beyond expectations, delighting our customers and building long-term relationships. Inspired by the principles of ‘Unreasonable Hospitality,’ we’re striving to deliver world-class customer service—going the extra mile to create unforgettable moments that others might think impossible. This commitment to exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we offer—both to our customers and to the incredible people who join our team.
• Our Culture: We use our strong values and beliefs to guide us in our strategies as well as our everyday decisions. We seek out the best and brightest people and will treat you like the adults that you are. With a truly flexible, supportive and fun work environment, we empower you to work in a way that best suits you.
• Dream Team: Join a vibrant group of bright, passionate individuals committed to our mission and our customers. Founded in 2022 with a small team of 36, you’ll have the opportunity to get in on the ‘ground floor’ of one of Australia’s fastest-growing technology start-ups, backed by local and international VCs. We aim to retain our flat structure and small team size, even as we continue our exponential growth journey. We aspire to operate like elite special forces teams like the navy seals or SAS—highly skilled, mission-driven, and relentlessly focused on excellence. Every team member’s contribution is vital and together, we execute with precision, determination and a shared commitment to achieving our ambitious goals.
• Personal Growth: We believe in redefining career progression by supporting our team members in achieving both their professional aspirations and personal dreams. We’re committed to empowering our people to thrive in both work and life, helping them reach their fullest potential.
• Remuneration: We offer a competitive salary, along with an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and a generous bonus and benefits package. We recognise and reward your contributions, ensuring that your efforts are valued and aligned with the company's growth and success.

Please submit your cover letter and resume by emailing us directly at info@kismet.healthcare only. You will not be considered for the position without a cover letter. Your cover letter should help us understand why you are applying for this position with us at Kismet and your relevant skills and experience. Please note, we are a remote first company, however we would like this candidate to be based in Melbourne.