About our team The External Budgets and Revenue Branch is responsible for managing the Home Affairs portfolio's input into the Commonwealth Budget process, supporting the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), strategic financial and economic advice, and contract related support for specified administered programs. The branch also is responsible for the management of revenue collected by the Department including the Australian Border Force.

The Revenue Management Section (RMS) is a large team responsible for budgeting and modelling more than $20 billion in Australian Government revenue collections including customs duties, import processing charge, passenger movement charge, visa and citizenship charges, GST collected on behalf of the Australia Taxation Office, and the management of any associated debts to the Commonwealth. The section also manages the Department's activity-based departmental funding arrangements which accounts for about 25 per cent of the department's operational budget.

The Administered Financials Management Section (AFM) responsibility is to provide operational financial and performance management responsibilities for the onshore detention network and regional processing centres (RPC) including *Verification and approval of invoices associated with service delivery to support contractual arrangements *Assessing the contract performance management of the onshore network service provider *Implementation and management of the RPC performance management framework.

The External Costings Section (EC) is responsible for costing new policy proposals across Home Affairs, providing expert technical advice and working closely with business areas and agencies across government to ensure key priorities are funded. There are 2 External Costings Teams: Immigration and National Security & ABF.

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Our ideal candidate To be a solid contender for the roles you will have:

- Demonstrated leadership experience with either people or projects and experience working under limited direction including excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
- A mindset of continuous improvement and initiative to drive change
- Strong technical finance/statistics skills together with a willingness to learn
- Experience coordinating input between diverse stakeholder groups to develop meaningful advice for the executive and Minister's Office
- Sound decision making and judgement to produce high level financial advice
- Demonstrated knowledge of budget and asset management principles and the ability to communicate requirements




- A thirst to use your positive can-do attitude to build and maintain rapport with stakeholders and senior management
- A sound understanding of the Commonwealth's financial management framework, various Financial Legislation and policies, including the PGPA Act, delegations, etc

As Assistant Director, External Budgets and Revenue Branch, you will be responsible for:

Revenue Management section: Lead a stream of work across the full spectrum of Administered Programs such as Visa Application Charge, Cargo, or activity-based departmental revenue collections.

Administered Financials Management Section: This role provides strategic financial advice and supports the management of significant administered funding programs, contributing to budget development, resource allocation, and government financial reporting.

External Costings: Take the lead in preparing costings for new policy proposals by liaising on requirements and potential costs with business areas, gathering costs from related agencies and testing assumptions. Maintain complex models and ensure the Budget Management Tool is accurately updated.

Your responsibilities will vary depending on the role, but will include a combination of the following:

- Being a central point of contact working alongside policy areas and operational teams across the broader department and the ABF to support the budget process and central agencies
- Analysing complex financial data on your stream of work to keep financial modelling coherent with observations while also ensuring forecasts account relevant emerging issues
- Modelling scenarios to inform policy development, general analysis and estimates updates to inform government budget process
- Supporting the executive and Minister's Office with high-quality briefing material that is succinct and evidence-based informed by trends and issues in Home Affairs administered programs
- Lead and manage end of month financial processes related to capital and operating infrastructure related expenditure including facilitation, verification and payment of supplier invoices associated with the detention and regional processing contracts
- The revision of and input of costs into New Policy Proposals that have been developed by responsible business areas
- Stakeholder engagement to ensure relevancy and accuracy of costing assumptions.



This includes liaison with central agencies, with other external agencies on NPPs and costings with cross-portfolio impacts, and the collation/reconciliation of funding profiles for these agencies and with internal business areas
- Maintenance of costing templates and funding models, development of evidence-based costings, submission of completed costings to DoF, and subsequent negotiations to agree costs.

Additional information The Branch has a broad range of work and values people with diverse experiences and skills. Depending on the role, a combination of the following are desirable but not necessarily essential:

- Relevant qualifications and/or experience in one or more of the following:
- Finance, accounting, economics, or a similar quantitative discipline
- Understanding of the Australian Government financial framework, financial reporting requirements, financial policies & procedures, or ability to quickly learn and apply these in a professional setting
- Knowledge of Home Affairs revenue or broader administered programs, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn
- General contract management application
- Experience with data analysis, visualisation and/or modelling using specialist software such as R, SQL, or PowerBI.
- Advanced experience with excel including complex formulae

To be eligible for the position you must be an Australian Citizen.

The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a Baseline Vetting (AGSVA) security clearance, and:

- ABF Workers will also be required to obtain and maintain an Employment Suitability Clearance (ESC).
- Home Affairs Workers will also be required to obtain and maintain an Onboarding Check.

In certain circumstances, an Employment Suitability Clearance (ESC) may be required in addition to, or in lieu of, an Onboarding Check, which will be determined by the delegate as necessary.

The Department of Home Affairs offers an attractive remuneration package, including salary, superannuation advantages and flexible working conditions appropriate to the level of the position.

The Department may provide relocation assistance to eligible APS employees required to relocate. The level of assistance will vary depending on the reason for relocating and your personal circumstances. For further information please enquire with the contact officer listed in the advertisement.

AI tools may be used to support parts of this recruitment process. The selection panel will disclose where and how AI is used.

Information about employment and advice on how to apply for vacancies can be obtained from the Department’s website at https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/careers.

📌 Assistant Director - External Budgets and Revenue (Australia)
🏢 Department of Home Affairs
📍 Australia