Associate Director, Financial Audit

**Associate Director, Financial Audit**

Are you ready for a career with impact? To work for an organisation that informs and challenges government to improve outcomes for citizens.

**Who are we**?**

The Audit Office of New South Wales is recognised as a centre of excellence within the professional services sector. For 200 years, the Auditor-General has assisted the parliament of New South Wales to hold government accountable for its use of public resources. We do this by conducting independent audits across a diverse client base in sectors including community services, health, education, justice, emergency services, transport, planning, environment and local government.

We have a people-focused culture, supported by corporate values that encourage pride in purpose, curiosity and open-mindedness, courage and integrity.

Today, the Audit Office has a culture that is centred around valuing people. Integrity, curiosity, courage and pride in purpose are our other deeply held shared values.

At the Audit Office, you won’t just fit in. You’ll belong.

**How will you contribute?**

We are seeking one Associate Director to lead a range of external audits within Financial Audit. Reporting to a Director, Financial Audit, the Associate Directors lead a dedicated professional audit team to deliver high quality audits, varying in size and complexity, for a diverse portfolio of government clients.

In particular, Associate Directors will be responsible for:

- achieving quality audits within defined times and budgets, meeting methodology, professional standards and legislative requirements
- maintaining optimum client satisfaction through relationship management while identifying audit outcomes which have impact and can be readily reported to parliament.
- planning and managing a challenging financial audit program, involving leadership of a mobile team across multiple locations
- developing the capabilities, knowledge and experience of the audit team through inspiring leadership and investment in people.

**What will you need to succeed?**
- sound experience in risk-based financial audits
- strong leadership skills with the ability to engage, motivate and develop staff
- sound judgement in financial, resource, and people management
- a thorough knowledge of accounting and auditing practices, processes and legislative and regulatory frameworks and requirements
- worked on a range of complex and diverse audits
- influenced stakeholders to adopt audit recommendations and provided relevant and informative audit reports.

Essential requirements:

- tertiary qualification in an appropriate business discipline
- full membership of CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand or the Institute of Public Accountants
- thorough understanding and knowledge of relevant legislation, professional standards, auditing concepts and techniques.
- Australian permanent resident or citizen or New Zealand citizen.

**What are the benefits?**

On offer is a total remuneration package (including superannuation) from **$161,832 to $204,399** per annum depending on experience, skills and capabilities. You will also have access to flexible work practices and arrangements.

The Audit Office is a rewarding, challenging and impactful place to work where we value diversity and take a collaborative approach to ‘getting things done’. Here you can have a career with purpose, and real work-life balance as well as unique opportunities for professional development and personal growth.

Our flexible work practices provide our employees with choice in the way they work, within the context of their roles, creating a diverse, skilled and motivated workforce capable of delivering quality products and efficient services. This means that some days you’ll be in the office, surrounded by peers, colleagues or clients and working collaboratively. Other days, you’ll be working where you choose, so you can have the focused environment you need to get the task at hand done best. Our flexible approach to work means you’ll enjoy the best of both worlds when you join the Audit Office.

Please note some regional travel within New South Wales may be required and more details on associated costs is available in our Travel Policy.

**How can you get started?**
- It is not always easy to achieve required work deadlines. Describe a situation where you had a challenging deadline you were able to achieve. What was the difficulty? How were you able to overcome this. (300 word limit)
- As managers we are concerned about people whose performance is less than satisfactory. Tell me about a time when you gained commitment to improve performance from a team member / direct report (300 word limit).

Applications close midnight **Monday 28 October 2024**.