Highlight points

• Global business with strong growth and market leadership
• High-impact role working directly with CEOs and Board
• Management Incentive Scheme and the opportunity to invest alongside the leadership team
• Collaborative, values-driven culture built on leadership, innovation, and accountability

Group Financial Controller

Want to build your career in a growth industry, centred on people, health, lifestyle, innovation?

Golf is a sport people are passionate about, with participation continuing to grow across key markets. It is an industry where customers are highly engaged, innovation is constant, and the future is full of opportunity.

At MGI Golf, we are redefining the way golfers experience the game. Proudly Australian-founded, MGI is the number one electric golf buggy brand in Australia, the USA, Canada, Sweden and New Zealand, with a reputation for innovation, performance and quality. As a global leader in electric golf buggies, we continue to push boundaries, grow our international footprint and create products that golfers genuinely love.

We are now seeking a commercially astute, hands-on Group Financial Controller to lead our global finance function and play a critical role in supporting executive decision-making across the business. Reporting directly to the CEOs, this is a high-impact leadership role with exposure to the Board and the opportunity to help guide financial strategy across multiple entities and jurisdictions.

About the role

As Group Financial Controller, you will be responsible for the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting across the MGI Golf Group, which has PE investment alongside the founding family. You will oversee global financial control, consolidations, statutory compliance, month-end close, cash flow, audit, tax coordination, board reporting and company secretarial responsibilities, while leading a small international finance team.

This role is about more than reporting numbers. It is about working collaboratively with the leadership team by having open, honest conversations around performance, challenges, risk, opportunity and strategy.  We are looking for someone who will bring perspective, sound judgement and the confidence to share insights drawn from experience, to help shape decisions and support the broader leadership team.

The ideal person will be genuinely excited by what they can bring to this next chapter of the MGI story.  Someone who will thrive in an environment where they can contribute strategically while remaining close to the detail. This is a senior executive role based out of our global head office, in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. We are looking for a leader who is willing to roll up their sleeves, partner with the business and help continue building a strong, capable finance function as we scale. An attractive remuneration package including Management Incentive Scheme and the opportunity to invest alongside the leadership team

Key responsibilities

You will:

• Lead the global month-end and year-end close process across all entities
• Prepare consolidated monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting
• Oversee financial control, reconciliations, group accounting and multi-entity consolidations
• Coordinate monthly Board reporting and present financial results, insights and recommendations
• Provide clear and commercially relevant analysis on the overall health of the business, including business drivers, margin performance, working capital, cash flow, risks and opportunities
• Partner with the CEOs and business leaders on budgets, forecasts, reforecasts and strategic planning
• Contribute practical insight and informed recommendations to support executive decision-making
• Manage external audit, tax coordination and statutory compliance across Australia, the USA and Canada
• Support governance requirements, including company secretarial responsibilities and Board papers
• Oversee treasury, liquidity and working capital management
• Lead, mentor and develop a small global finance team
• Drive improvements in systems, reporting, automation and finance processes, including the use of AI and emerging technologies where appropriate.

About you

You are an experienced senior finance leader with the confidence and credibility to operate at Board and executive level. You combine strong financial capability with commercial insight and bring a practical, grounded approach to leadership. You are comfortable contributing to strategic conversations, but you do not sit above the detail.

You know how to build trust through consistency, openness and sound judgement. You are someone who enjoys supporting others, sharing your experience, mentoring teams and helping people grow. You are hands-on, approachable and invested in building both capability and culture.

To succeed in this role, you will ideally have:

• 10+ years’ accounting and analytical experience
• Significant experience in a Financial Controller, CFO or senior finance leadership role
• Experience in a private, multi-entity, international business
• Strong technical accounting capability, including consolidations and statutory compliance
• Experience with Board reporting, management reporting and executive-level financial leadership
• Exposure to company secretarial and governance responsibilities
• Strong analytical capability, including BI/reporting tools, financial modelling and advanced Excel
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and leadership skills
• A commercially minded, resilient and adaptable approach
• Confidence working with international banks, foreign currency and global transactions
• A genuine willingness to mentor, develop and lead a team through growth and change
• Comfort using AI tools and a drive to improve processes and reporting.

Qualifications

You will hold:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s qualification in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Commerce, Business Administration or Business Law
• A professional qualification such as CA, CPA or CFA.

Why join MGI Golf?

This is an opportunity to join a global growth business with a strong brand, market leadership and a reputation for product innovation. You’ll work closely with the CEOs, attend and report at monthly Board meetings, contribute to strategic outcomes, and help shape the next phase of MGI’s international expansion.

Just as importantly, you will step into a role where leadership matters. Our team is at an exciting stage of development and needs a leader who will provide mentoring, coaching and support, while helping lift capability across the finance function. This is an opportunity to make a genuine impact, not only on business performance, but on the people and culture that will help drive long-term success.

At MGI, we are proud of our values: Communication, Responsibility, Honesty, Respect, Leadership, Resilience and Innovation. We offer a collaborative and high-performing environment where great people can make a genuine impact.

A full job description is available upon request.