Senior Financial Analyst

Salary

- Clerk Grade 9/10 - $129,464 to $142,665 plus superannuation and leave loading

Your role

We are seeking a Senior Finance Analyst you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering its assigned accountability within Aboriginal Housing Office’s (AHO) overall management reporting, budgeting and financial reporting processes and enable the AHO to achieve budget performance and compliance with policies, statutory requirements and external regulators.

This role offers an exciting opportunity develop strategic ideas to develop our systems, processes and reporting to enable high standards of financial analysis and improve AHO financial analysis knowledge and usage.

What you’ll do

- Manage the provision of financial analysis, tracking, management reporting and forecasting for the AHO Strategic Plan, asset management plans and programs, operational budgets, cash flow and asset investment management to meet requirements for Treasury, the AHO Board and Executive

- Review budget performance and provide reporting and analysis specific to the team’s role in AHO’s end-to-end financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting functions, to understand and optimise the whole of AHO’s financial position

- Generate strategic insights and reports that support the business to optimise its financial position, protocols and internal processes

- Educate relevant business areas to develop financial capability and improve confidence and accountability in financial business decision making, which promotes a consistent financial management approach across the AHO

- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including senior managers and service delivery divisions to exchange information, obtain cooperation and support and provide financial advice

What we’re looking for

The essential requirements of this role are:

- CA/CPA or working towards completion

- Tertiary qualifications in Commerce or Finance or Economics and/or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience with demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development

In addition to the essential requirements, the successful candidate will have:

- A high level of autonomy in setting own priorities, and those of any staff/project staff supervised, in alignment with management

- Work experience involving GST and/or insurance

- Strong ability to manage quality control in the implementation of your own and any staff supervised, workload

- Detailed and current knowledge of the Australian Accounting Standards, Treasury Directions and the Public Finance and Audit Act

- Ability to consult on a suitable course of action in matters that are sensitive, high-risk or business-critical, or for those issues that have far reaching implications with respect to resources or quality advice provision

What We Offer

- A challenging and rewarding career

- Flexible, autonomous work environment

- Competitive pay and conditions

- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Applications close

Sunday 16 November 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Anthea Devarajan on 0416 969 583 or at anthea.devarajan@aho.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Stephanie Hughes on 02 8688 0027 via stephanie.hughes@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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Application Process

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

- In 500 words or less, please outline a project you developed and implemented to streamline and improve accuracy in financial reporting

- In 500 words or less, please tell us about a time when you were responsible for completing the month-end close process. What steps did you take to ensure accuracy and timeliness, and how did you handle any discrepancies that arose?

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