Assistant Director | Finance

Full job description
Salary: $114,128 - $126,462
Locations: Canberra,Robina, QLD
Job Number: EXT-EL-2024-145+
Classification: Executive Level 1
Salary Range: $114,128 - $126,462 +15.4% Superannuation
Job Type: Ongoing,Non-ongoing
Employment Type: Full-time
Group/Division/Branch: Corporate Enabling / Chief Financial Officer / Various
Locations: Canberra ACT, Robina QLD

Job Description

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Division is seeking experienced leaders with financial management and/or finance systems acumen to join the team.

Assistant Directors within the Division have demonstrated technical expertise to enable them to deliver quality outcomes regarding financial matters and an ability to deliver and communicate financial information. They play a critical role in driving innovation, contributing to and implementing the agency’s strategic direction. We are looking for people who are energetic critical thinkers who thrive on a challenge and have strong leadership and management skills.

The Financial Branches within the CFO Division have current vacancies for Assistant Directors within:

Group Financial Management, responsible for the internal financial management and provision of financial services across business areas within the agency.
Financial Systems, responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the budget management system, maintaining SAP Finance modules, developing finance system strategies and ensuring accounting requirements are met in major payment system developments.
Financial Accounting, responsible for providing advice and support in ensuring compliance to legislative obligations for Agency officials in executing their financial governance and compliance responsibilities

Experience, qualifications and examples of the knowledge and skills will be highly regarded.

A merit pool will be established.

The CFO Division manages Services Australia’s budget of $5.+ billion and administered payments of over $200 billion on behalf of partner agencies to ensure all Australians, no matter where they live, can quickly and easily access streamlined government services and support. The CFO Division continues to implement an ambitious reform agenda to modernise and automate the finance function.

The CFO Division provides financial advice, contestability, financial controls and assurance to the agency based on the following principles:
Financial information that is accurate, transparent, consistent, relevant and timely.
Simple, helpful, respectful, quality, contestable and informed financial and procurement advice to assist the Agency in decision making.
Standardise and streamline financial structures, processes, reporting and services, in order to remove duplication and reduce inefficiencies.
The automation of financial processes where it is efficient and viable to do so.