Chief Financial Officer

Triskele Labs is a leading provider of sovereign Australian cybersecurity services. The business is entering its next phase of growth and we are appointing our first full-time Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary. This is a transformational appointment. It replaces a fractional two-day-a-week CFO model with a full-time executive who will own finance and company secretarial end to end, oversee the legal function in partnership with external counsel, and rebuild these functions to support the next phase of the business.

This is a hands-on builder role. You will own the CFO function end to end, from monthly management accounts, lender reporting and cashflow through to pricing, cost-to-serve and working capital discipline. There is no large finance team behind you, and you won't need one. You will design the team, appoint your permanent Financial Controller, and lead an onshore and offshore operational finance team that you have shaped.

We're looking for a CFO who is AI and LLM native: someone who reaches for automation first, not last. At Triskele Labs that isn't an aspiration on a slide. The organisation is rapidly pivoting to agentic workflows, and finance is next. You will lead that build: scheduled AI briefs on live Xero data, automated AR and cash monitoring, and forecast-versus-actuals reporting delivered daily to Slack. There is no stack to inherit. You will design it, build it, and be measured in part on how much of the routine you eliminate.

You will report directly to the CEO, sit on the Executive Leadership Team, and partner closely with the executive on the commercial, operational and governance decisions that shape the business over the next three to five years.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Finance leadership: end-to-end ownership of financial strategy, planning, control, reporting, treasury, tax, audit and compliance.
• Company Secretary: board governance, statutory compliance, minutes, registers and ASIC obligations.
• Legal oversight: manage the legal function in partnership with external counsel across contracts, commercial agreements, employment and IP matters.
• Planning and forecasting: build the financial model from the ground up, move the business from billing-based to net revenue, and own gross margin forecasting, OPEX discipline and EBITDA protection.
• Executive reporting: design and build the reporting suite for the board, executive, lenders and Quarterly Business Reviews. None of it exists in its final form today. That is the point.
• AI-native operations: build AI into modelling, forecasting, reporting and workflow design as the default, not the add-on.
• Team leadership: design the finance team structure, appoint the permanent Financial Controller, and lead the onshore and offshore team.
• Commercial partnership: partner with the CEO and executive on pricing, deal structure, capital allocation and hiring decisions.

About You

• CA, CPA or equivalent qualification.
• Company Secretary credentials, or AICD or Governance Institute credentials with the intent to take on the role.
• Senior finance leadership experience in a scaling business, ideally professional services, technology or cybersecurity.
• You have built or rebuilt a finance function before, not just run one.
• Strong commercial instinct and a history of partnering with founders, CEOs and executive teams.
• Comfortable across strategy, FP&A, controllership, treasury, tax, audit and lender management.
• Comfortable providing oversight of a legal function in partnership with external counsel.
• AI and LLM native. You see AI as the way to design a better function, not a threat to manage, and you can show us what you have already automated.
• Direct, concise communicator who will respectfully challenge the CEO and the executive when warranted.
• Energised by transformation. You see a scaling, founder-led, sovereign cybersecurity business heading into FY27 as a canvas rather than a constraint.

Benefits

What We Offer

• A seat at the executive table from day one.
• A genuine transformation mandate, not a steady-state role.
• Direct partnership with the CEO and the executive team.
• The opportunity to build the finance, governance and legal infrastructure of a scaling Australian cybersecurity business, your way.
• Competitive remuneration package, commensurate with experience.

Application Requirements

Applications must include both a CV and a cover letter. Your cover letter should address two questions: why this role, and why now. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

Interview Process

• Initial conversation with the CEO.
• Meetings with members of the Executive Leadership Team.
• Presentation and mock case study with a brief provided in advance, including your 90 day plan.