Finance Coordinator

Back to Back Theatre is on the hunt for a part-time Finance Coordinator to join our passionate and enthusiastic team!

Back to Back Theatre is on the hunt for a part-time Finance Coordinator to join our passionate and enthusiastic team!

The Role

The Finance Coordinator supports the Head of Finance in all aspects of the day-to-day financial operations of Back to Back and periodic reporting to both the Board and external stakeholders. This is a part-time role at 20 hours per week spread across 3 or 4 days, and requires a high level of interaction with staff, strong problem-solving skills and an agile, flexible approach to tasks.

Key responsibilities include payroll, general ledger and banking reconciliation, accounts payable, and NDIS related accounts receivable. 

Back to Back is a social enterprise and has relationships with a number of disability providers (plan support) and the role involves managing the related financial transactions in collaboration with the General Manager.

The successful applicant will need to have at least 3 years’ experience in a bookkeeping and/or finance coordinator role with a focus on payroll. Salary range $72-$78k pro-rata and as Back to Back Theatre Inc is a Public Benevolent Institution, we can offer competitive salary packaging. Our office is situated in Geelong with Management open to hybrid working arrangements.

The role’s job description is available to view on the employment page of our website.

We strongly encourage applications with lived experience of disability, people from diverse cultural; and linguistic backgrounds and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter outlining your experience to: recruitment@backtobacktheatre.com   Applications close 11:59 Sunday 20 July 2025.

Organisational Purpose & Overview.

With a long history of award-winning productions, Back to Back Theatre is a socially conscious organisation which highly values diversity, and provides a range of benefits including flexible working hours and a generous Private Benevolent Institution (PBI) salary sacrifice program.

Based in the Victorian regional centre of Geelong, Back to Back Theatre is widely recognised as an Australian theatre company of national and international significance. The company is driven by an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities and is considered one of Australia’s most important cultural exporters. 

We contend our operation as a theatre company is beyond expectation of possibility: an affirmation for human potential. The company’s existence contributes to the richness and diversity of Australian life and palpably projects Geelong, Victoria and Australia to the world as innovative, sophisticated and dynamic.

Back to Back Theatre has received 22 national and international awards including the International Ibsen award, a Helpmann Award for Best Australian Work, an Edinburgh International Festival Herald Angel Critics’ Award, two Age Critics’ Awards, a New York Bessie and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group Award for our long-standing contribution to the development of Australian theatre. In 2015, Bruce Gladwin received the Australia Council for the Arts’ Inaugural Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre. The ensemble was awarded the ‘Best Ensemble’ in the 2019 Green Room Awards.

Back to Back Theatre acknowledge we live and work on the lands of the Wadawurrung people. We pay respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge there is no treaty and that this is stolen land. We acknowledge the lands of First Nations people everywhere, in Australia and in the world. We are friends of LGBTQIA+ and Indigenous peoples. We recognise the discrimination people from these groups have suffered. We advocate for the inclusion and advancement of all identities in our company and in society.