Finance Manager

Back to Back Theatre is on the hunt for a full-time Finance Manager (Operational) to join our passionate and enthusiastic team!

The Role

The Finance Manager (Operational) delivers accurate, compliant and timely financial operations, including internal payroll, ensuring strong controls, audit readiness, and Board-ready reporting. Reporting to the Executive Producer & Co-CEO and working closely with the Senior Finance Manager (Strategic) this role is the operational execution layer of the company’s finance function.

Accountable for: finance operations end-to-end, payroll processing and compliance, participant financial administration, statutory reporting, audit preparation, grant/funder acquittals, cashflow monitoring, and ensuring financial results are closed and reported accurately and on time. 

A full Position Description is available at https://backtobacktheatre.com/employment/ 

The salary range for this role is $90-$100k plus Superannuation, and as Back to Back Theatre Inc. is a Public Benevolent Institution we offer competitive salary packaging.

Our office is situated in Geelong and we welcome hybrid working arrangements by negotiation.

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

How to apply

To apply, please provide a cover letter and resume demonstrating your suitability to the role to: [email protected] 

Applications close 11:59 Monday 6 April 2026.

For any questions on the role on the company, please contact Tanya Bennett via email [email protected] 

About Back to Back Theatre

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 including the 2024 Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre, the 2022 International Ibsen Awarda 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.