Manager Financial Services

Manager Financial Services - The Barossa Council

Position Description

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**Classification**:General Officer Level 8

**Department**:Financial Services - Corporate Services and Business Innovation

**Current Occupant**:Vacant

**This Position Reports To**:Director Corporate Services and Business Innovation

**Reporting To This Position**:Coordinator Financial Services, Senior Accountant

**Location**:Nuriootpa Office

**Date Last Reviewed**:May 2023

**Approved by**:Director Corporate Services and Business Innovation

**Corporate Objectives**
All Employees of Council contribute to Council’s strategic goals and objectives. The _Barossa Community Plan_

2020 - 2040 lays the foundation for all strategic decisions made by Council and is supported by a _Corporate _
- Plan_. The Community Plan provides a clear strategic direction across a range of areas, as well as serving as

an overarching guide to measure our decision making and successful delivery of service. The Community

Plan shows commitment to the values of **_Land and Place_**, **_Community,_** **_Leadership_** and **_Achievement_** with

targets that reflect six key themes:
Natural Environment and Built

Environment

Health and Wellbeing

Community and Culture

Business and Employment

Infrastructure

How we Work, Good Governance

**Customer Service**
Council values its customers and strives to provide the right people, efficient processes and systems to deliver a

quality customer experience. Every role within Council serves an internal or external customer and we are

committed to ensuring that customers are at the centre of everything we do.

**Constructive Culture**
The Barossa Council is committed to developing a constructive culture that supports employees, Council and

the Community to achieve our goals. The behaviours of a constructive organisational culture consist of four

main constructive styles**:
**1 Achievement **Pursue a standard of excellence, set challenging but realistic goals and work

towards them with enthusiasm.

**2 Self-Actualising**

Maintain personal integrity, enjoy work, self-develop and take an interest in growth

and improvement activities.

**3 Humanistic-**

**Encouraging**

Be supportive of others in and outside the workplace and constructive in their

dealings with one another.

**4 Affiliative**

Be friendly, sensitive, and cooperate with others.

**Staff Values**
Our values support our organisational culture and include **_Honesty and Integrity, Transparency, _**

**_Communication and Teamwork._**

**Position Overview**
The Manager Financial Services is accountable to lead the development and delivery of Council’s Financial

Services through the provision of visible, innovative and customer-centric leadership that ensures alignment of

operations with sound financial, governance and risk management principles, supports organisational

compliance with legislative requirements and establishes frameworks that support Council to remain efficient

and responsive to customer and community needs whilst making sound long term financial planning decisions.

**Key Responsibilities**
**Leadership & People Management**
- Demonstrate and provide leadership in Financial Services within The Barossa Council in accordance with

Council’s core organisational values, community and corporate plan and legislative standards.

improvement, best practice, and contemporary methodologies in order to generate efficiencies and reach

improved service outcomes.
- Translate strategic directions and continuous improvement initiatives into operational action plans and drive

the achievement of these through the utilisation of available resources in order to reach optimised outcomes,

achieve key activities and deliver projects on time and on budget.
- Act as a financial management advocate, influencing and managing stakeholder relationships whilst

providing expert advice and information on emerging issues that may impact continuous improvement and

compliance.
- Lead the team with transparency and clarity by setting clear expectations regarding work priorities and

Directorate and organisational goals.
- Ensure the effective and efficient day to day management and operation of the Financial Services team

and all associated functions using best practice and inspiring leadership skills to ensure engaged and

motivated staff, organisational values-aligned staff behaviour and the optimal delivery of key Corporate

Services projects and outcomes.
- Build team capability, accountability and responsiveness through the development and implementation of

streamlined and improved techniques, work practices and procedures across all facets of the work area in

order to achieve departmental and organisational objectives.

mentoring and leadership practices including the management of key processes associated with staff

performance enhancement and the review and identification direct report’s training needs.
- Support staff to deliver high qualit