About the Role: The Department is seeking an experienced and skilled Finance Support Officer.

Primary Duties:

- Act as a front door for staff to provide accurate and timely advice across the division on financial matters.
- Ensuring boundaries of the Department versus specialist areas are known and understood.
- Provide training and capability uplift, this includes current staff training on best practices and expectations.
- CATS timelines, correct codes and accuracy, forecasting and actuals reporting, use of tooling (including using Power BI)
- Drive analysis and corrective actions to ensure financial accuracy and continuous improvement of divisional finances, including CATS.
- Identify and implement improvements (as appropriate) in current and future work practices to ensure financial sustainability.
- Ongoing reduction in CATS errors (journaling activities)
- outstanding timesheets and non-compliance




- Increase financial literacy of divisional staff that is aligned to departmental requirements.
- Identification of enhancements and improvement opportunities and ability to drive action to get desired outcomes.
- Responsible for ensuring financial correspondence via the centralised Departmentmailbox for the division is managed appropriately and in a timely manner.

Location and Contract Term:

This role can be based in ACT, SA or QLD. Contract 1 October 2026 - 30 September 2027 with 1x12 - month contract extension options pending budget and delegate approval.

Security Requirements

Applicants must be Australian Citizens and hold a baseline security clearance.

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📌 Finance Support Officer (Canberra)
🏢 Whizdom
📍 Canberra