
External Budgets, Costings and Finance Officer
5 days ago
APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC
- $98,105 - $107,880
**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.
We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.
With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.
It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.
**The Role**
Reporting to the Assistant Director, this position is responsible for:
- Supporting strategic advice on external budget matters and fiscal settings for internal stakeholders, including the Executive and portfolio Ministers.
- Supporting policy areas throughout the development of costings underpinning policy proposals, and
- Preparing initial advice on external funding priorities and pressures to inform the development of multi-year investment strategies across forward budget cycles.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
Working alongside the whole team, responsibilities of an APS6 External Budgets, Costings and Finance Officer may include:
- Supporting the development of costings and ASL bids alongside policy areas across the Group, also providing advice to Executives on costings as they are shepherded through the process.
- Providing advice to policy areas considering the broader fiscal narrative in budget processes, Budget Process Operational Rules, Commonwealth Resource Management Framework and other Whole-of-Australian-Government rules, alongside the External Budgets Branch.
- Supporting the development of a multi-year fiscal and investment strategy for the portfolio, informing budget phasing.
- Identifying opportunities to promote best practice and uplift capability in costings development across the Group, which could include arranging training or developing reference materials.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders on budget matters.
**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than **500** words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.
In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:
- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.
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**Eligibility**
**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**
**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.
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