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 recent 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 Current 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.

📌 Gazact Assistant Director External Budgets And Revenue Australian Capital Territory (Australia)
🏢 Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
📍 Australia