- EL 2 - $151,938 - $176,530 per annum plus superannuation
- Finance & Investment Division
- Adelaide, SA,Brisbane, QLD,Canberra, ACT,Melbourne, VIC,Sydney, NSW

Finance & Government Business Division is seeking to fill vacancies for EL2 Finance Business Partner Directors, who support the department's groups, divisions, teams and projects, meet their financial responsibilities and requirements.

Why YOU are important to us and what impact will you have on the Finance & Investment Division and the departments’ goal.

Our division ensures the department remains financially sustainable, compliant, and well-equipped to meet its goals. We provide expert financial advice, tools, and support to help teams manage budgets, make informed decisions, and use public resources responsibly. By partnering across the department, we help align financial processes with strategic priorities. We also support ministers and stakeholders with clear, accurate financial insights that drive effective policy and program delivery.

We provide expert financial support across accounting, budgeting, tax, loans, and compliance. Our team offers tailored advice, training, and hands-on assistance to help staff manage resources effectively and meet financial obligations. We ensure public funds are used responsibly and transparently, supporting the department’s financial sustainability. By partnering with teams across the department, we help align financial practices with strategic goals and enable informed decision-making at every level.

This is where you play an important role.

Directors of Finance Business Partner (FBP) Teams partner across the business and with senior executives to provide strategic financial advice and assistance on financial related issues. The individual FBP teams form a professional network that support the department in managing its budget through preparing monthly divisional financial management reports, monitoring budgets and forecasts that reflect the Group / Division’s business plan, and most importantly provide a conduit between the Group / Division and the Chief Finance Officer (CFO).

The duties of the role may include some or all of the following:

- Leading a team to deliver strategic, accurate and timely advice to senior stakeholders within the relevant area of responsibility and partner with these stakeholders in providing excellent customer service and delivering high quality outcomes.




- Work closely with the AS FMIB and other FBP teams on strategic issues facing your relevant areas of responsibility and associated projects, as well as provide timely and accurate financial advice to stakeholders in line areas.
- Partner with the business to provide strategic financial advice and assistance to relevant executives and operational line areas on a variety of financial and business matters.
- Prepare and advise on monthly financial management reports and other ad hoc management reports to your area of responsibility.
- Collaborate closely with other Finance Business Partner teams to ensure consistent approaches, messaging, and management of issues.
- Set the strategic priorities for your team, consistent with the direction provided by the CFO and AS FMIB.
- Support and take responsibility for ensuring the Finance Business Partner Model of the department is successful and suitable for stakeholders.
- Provide strong leadership to junior staff within the team, including managing deliverables, workloads, performance, conflicts, and setting the direction of the team to deliver on outcomes.
- Prepare and advise on monthly financial reports and other ad hoc reports.
- Analyse, interpret and advise on business area financial performance, including a robust focus on staffing levels, contracted staff, and emerging financial risks that can impact delivery.
- Leadership, guidance and quality assurance of the development of group internal budgets and forecasts.
- Support specific reporting and review processes related to ICT functions and projects, including those related to gateway reviews and the Digital Transformation Agency.
- Engaging with the Financial Accounting Team on issues related to technical accounting matters, predominantly capital related projects.
- Engaging with the Cost Recovery team on driver and cost base related issues.

This position may also include leading a team to deliver additional financial responsibilities agreed with relevant divisions, where resourcing is available to provide non-standard FBP services.
The responsibilities of those teams may include:





- Engagement with the Group Director FBP (where the position is a divisional FBP role) on an ongoing basis to assist in ensuring risks, pressures, and opportunities within your area of responsibility are being escalated to the appropriate level, including to the Group’s Deputy Secretary.
- Ensuring the strategic priorities for your team are consistent with the other FBP teams supporting the relevant Group.
- Invoice processing.
- Contractor timesheet review and matching to invoicing.
- Financial advice on key ICT projects being run through division.
- Financial administration and coordination activities on behalf of divisional stakeholders.

Please note that the merit pool established through this selection process, which is valid for a period of eighteen months from the date the vacancy was advertised in the Public Service Gazette, may also be used to fill future ongoing vacancies in the branch where the duties are of a similar nature.

Who we are looking for

Knowledge and experience

- Experience building & maintaining relationships with a network of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Managing, motivating & developing a high performing team of client focussed, solution driven staff who have clarity on their roles, responsibilities, expected values and behaviours.
- A strong understanding of accounting standards and methodology as they apply to your supported line area’s finances, including asset and project accounting. This should be complemented by a detailed knowledge of PGPA Act requirements as they relate to financial management.
- An understanding of cost recovery principles.
- Experience in leading and undertaking complex financial analysis and providing evidence-based advice & policy direction to stakeholders including executives.
- Experience in leading and motivating stakeholders/team through change working collaboratively across an organisation and externally.

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