Director of People and Corporate Services

4 weeks ago


Council Of The City Of Sydney, Australia ClearCompany Full time
Job Title: Director of People and Corporate Services

This is a key leadership role where your financial acumen and experience in HR and culture will shape the future and drive impactful change.

About the Role

As Director of People and Corporate Services, you will take the lead in overseeing the financial management of the agency while integrating key people and culture (P&C) practices.

This role is heavily finance-focused, requiring strong accounting experience and a track record of navigating complex financial landscapes.

You will be responsible for managing financial governance, reporting, and planning, as well as driving HR and culture transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Lead the financial planning for Safe Work ensuring transparent, efficient use of public resources.
  2. Sign off on all financial statements, reports, and strategic analyses to support executive decision-making and compliance with external reporting requirements.
  3. Oversee the development of HR strategies that align with the agency's broader goals, collaborating with the senior executive team to shape the future workforce.
  4. Play a key role in driving culture transformation, ensuring an inclusive, high-performance culture across the organisation.
  5. Lead the implementation of corporate policies and procedures, ensuring governance, compliance, and accountability across financial, HR, procurement and business operations.
  6. Oversee contract management and service-level agreements with external providers, ensuring value-for-money outcomes in ICT, shared services, and other support areas.
Requirements

You are a finance expert, ideally with CPA or CA qualifications, and you have experience managing broader corporate functions such as HR and culture.

Your strategic leadership enables you to guide financial operations while contributing to organisational culture and transformation initiatives.

Ideally, you have experience working within a shared services model and understand how to balance the operational needs of Safe Work with broader people and business operations.

You are comfortable navigating complex corporate landscapes and are ready to take on a leadership role that combines financial oversight with HR strategy and corporate services.

About Us

Safe Work NSW is the state's workplace health and safety regulator.

We are focused on protecting NSW workers by preventing and reducing work-related fatalities, serious injuries, and illnesses by securing compliance with work health and safety and associated legislation.

We do this by undertaking a mix of responsive and proactive programs of work focused on high-risk harms across all industries, aligned to our strategic plan and regulatory priorities.

We are undergoing an exciting and important period of transformation as we establish the organisation as a modern, strong and standalone Work Health and Safety Regulator.

We're looking for diverse and dynamic people to join us in making a real difference to the safety and health of workers in NSW.

Interested in joining our team? If you're a dynamic leader ready to drive financial excellence and cultural transformation in a high-impact role, we want to hear from you.



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