This key leadership role leads WVA's enterprise-wide finance business partnering function. You will provide strategic financial and economic advice, challenge thinking, and support leaders to align budgets, forecasts and resources with organisational priorities.
You will provide department‐level business planning support, financial performance analysis and decision support.
Responsibilities:
Set and deliver a consistent enterprise-wide finance business partnering model that serves all departments and enables WVA's mission and approved priorities
Establish clear service expectations, decision rights, analytical standards and engagement rhythms without creating additional approval layers beyond agreed delegations
Provide trusted financial and commercial advice to the Chief of Enterprise Services and senior leaders, making assumptions, choices and implications transparent
Lead finance partnering support for annual budgets, rolling forecasts and in-year resource decisions across all departments
Set consistent assumptions, calendars, templates, quality standards and challenge processes in coordination with Financial Control
Provide timely financial and economic insight that helps department leaders monitor delivery, validate financial benefits, address risks and adjust plans
Supply authoritative financial actuals, forecasts, financial definitions, economic analysis and decision support to the enterprise planning, scorecard, Business Performance Review and integrated performance management system owned by Strategy & Enterprise Performance
Lead continuous improvement of partnering, budgeting, forecasting, modelling, financial and management reporting, perks validation and finance decision‐support processes
Simplify tools, reduce duplication and improve finance data integrity,



timeliness, automation and usability in partnership with Financial Control, Technology, Strategy & Enterprise
Performance and domain owners
Build financial and commercial capability among leaders and non-finance stakeholders through practical guidance, tools and learning
Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone with substantial finance leadership experience in a large, complex organisation, including enterprise business partnering and multidisciplinary team leadership.
Demonstrated success leading budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, supporter
economics, resource-allocation advice, financial benefits validation and management reporting
Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear choices for senior leaders
Broad knowledge of management accounting, financial control interfaces, financial and management reporting, economic analysis and organisational planning
Strong understanding of charity, donor and not-for-profit financial obligations, including
relevant ACNC, ACFID, DFAT, fundraising and taxation considerations
Demonstrated ability to lead process, system, reporting and analytical improvement
across organisational boundaries
Relevant tertiary qualification in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related
CA,



CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification is strongly preferred.
WorkingforWorld Vision means you aremaking the worldbetter
It'snot every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world.WorkingforWorld Vision means lookingforward to turning up at work because you knowyou'reabout to dosomethingmeaningful.It means working with35,000 staff and3.3 million supporters in 100 countries whowillstop at nothing tohelp children live better lives.Joina teamthat is bold and courageous,andwherejob satisfaction goes beyondfinancial reward.
The SelectionProcess
For your information, the interviews will startimmediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe forchildren.Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check.
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📌 Director - Finance Business Partnering (Melbourne)
🏢 World Vision
📍 Melbourne