Chief Financial Officer

As the CFO, you will be responsible for providing advice to the agency on a range of strategic initiatives, investments, and business needs, as well as legislative and regulatory compliance. You should have a keen aptitude for strategic thinking, political acumen, and be adept at building relationships both internally and externally to the agency.
You will be self-motivated, support collaboration, and co-design approaches to solve complex issues.

The key duties of the position include:

The CFO requires comprehensive knowledge of financial practices in government, including:

1. Financial and Budget Management: responsible for delivery of the agency's external budget, including input into the Australian Government Budget process, the Portfolio Budget statements, and the agency's internal budget, delivering robust and comprehensive costing of new policy proposals.
2. Financial Accounting: responsible for external and statutory reporting, including the agency's financial statements, asset control framework, tax management, and treasury functions.
3. Special Accounts: responsibility for the management and reporting of special accounts and administered funding for complex programs.
4. Financial Reporting: reporting to the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, TSRA elected Board, and Audit Committee on the agency's financial position.
5. Financial operations: lead the execution of month-end financial and required reporting processes (payroll, accruals, prepayments, depreciation, AP/AR, etc.)
6. Finance Business Partnering: responsible for the internal financial management and provision of financial services across business areas within the agency.
7. Procurement: responsible for procurement advisory services, internal and external reporting, maintenance of policies and procurement risk frameworks, ensuring procurements and resulting agreements are undertaken within mandated Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines and agency procedures.
8. Financial Systems: responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting the budget management system, developing finance system strategies, and ensuring accounting requirements are met in major payment system developments.
9. Financial Governance: responsible for the development and maintenance of financial policies, controls, and standard operating procedures, and maintaining currency with all external rules, standards, and frameworks.
10. Intra and Interagency relationships: work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, such as the National Indigenous Australians Agency, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water, Department of Finance, the Australian National Audit Office, internal and external audit providers, and other agencies on financial management and audit matters.
11. Foster a collaborative team environment: share lessons learned to ensure a continuous improvement approach to project management and service delivery.
12. Leverage your senior-level financial management expertise: demonstrate experience in an accrual accounting environment.