• Work location: Melbourne, with hybrid (WFH/office) arrangements available.
• Employment status: Permanent part-time. Three days week, hours and days negotiable, with some out-of-hours work required to cater for work with teams in other time zones. Carbon Growth Partners offers mutually beneficial flexible working arrangements. We recognise that employees need to balance work and personal lives.
• Total Remuneration Package: 3 days/week: AUD $72,000 to $81,000 plus super (FTE AUD $120,000 to $135,000)

What’s on offer:

Carbon Growth Partners (CGP) is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to lead our finance function. This role encompasses two primary areas of responsibility: managing the group’s financial and accounting activities and overseeing the financial operations of our investment entities.

As the Finance Manager, you will supervise an outsourced accounting team, manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, and provide strategic financial advice to senior management. Additionally, you will work closely with our fund administrator to ensure accurate accounting, tax compliance, and timely audit processes for our investment funds.

Your role will also involve maintaining accounts for special purpose vehicles, monitoring cash flow, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. You will play a key part in shaping our financial policies, supporting business operations, and overseeing international taxation compliance. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to an organisation dedicated to driving environmental impact through investment.

Who we are:

CGP is a leading investment manager in global carbon markets.  We’re a small and dedicated team of passionate industry professionals located across a range of time zones in Australia, Hong Kong and North America.  CGP focusses on delivering three key objectives for investors and for the planet:

1. Generating financial returns by building a diversified portfolio of highest integrity carbon credits and related climate finance instruments.
2. Protecting & restoring nature by investing in projects that deliver co-benefits to forests, grasslands and wetlands, and the people who rely on them.
3. Accelerating climate action by supporting energy transitions in Developing Countries and bringing trusted carbon offset solutions to businesses

Your qualifications and experience:

• CA or CPA qualification.
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of financial regulations and standards.
• Experience working across different cultures, languages, and time zones.

• Experience in fund accounting, particularly with managed investment schemes or similar financial structures.

Your personal qualities:

• A genuine passion for sustainability, climate finance, and impact investing, with a commitment to CGP’s mission and values.
• Self-driven and able to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.
• An inquisitive mindset and egalitarian spirit, willing to do what’s needed to thrive (and to help team members thrive) in a lean, hands-on environment.
• High level of comfort with ambiguity and a demonstrated ability to take ownership of and solve complex problems.

We’d love to meet you:

If you have the skills, experience, and motivation to succeed in this role, please take the next step and submit your application. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability.

A position description is attached.