Finance Support Officer

**TAFE SA**
**Job reference**: 648496
**Location**: 5010 - REGENCY PARK
**Job status**: Ongoing
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Full time ongoing role**

**- Based at TAFE SA Regency Campus**
- **ASO4 salary range, $76,561 - $80,256 p.a. + Super**

**About TAFE SA**
Awarded the Training Provider of the Year at the 2021,2022 and 2024 SA Training Awards, TAFE SA ensures all South Australian students have access to quality education and skills training across a number of regional and metropolitan locations.

By working with TAFE SA, you’ll have the opportunity to advance your career in a diverse and inclusive organisation, while helping to deliver job-ready skills and meaningful outcomes for students across our state.

**About the Role**
**TAFE SA** is looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented **Finance Support Officer** to join our Finance and Performance Division. In this key role, you will collaborate with Finance Business Partners to deliver comprehensive management accounting support. Your contributions will help ensure robust financial processes, accurate reporting, and sound financial advice across TAFE SA business units.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Compile technical inputs for regular financial reporting, including management reports and budget processes.
- Provide financial advice and support to business units on reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.
- Maintain financial systems and documentation to ensure accuracy and quality.
- Conduct financial research, basic modelling, and analysis of income, expenditure, and staffing profiles.
- Coordinate accruals and provisioning activities to meet business requirements.
- Monitor financial performance against key budget indicators and support strategy development.
- Develop and maintain financial reporting templates, processes, and timetables.
- Contribute to financial projects, initiatives, and investigations for continuous improvement.

**To Be Successful in This Role, You Must Have**:

- Experience in a complex corporate or public sector management accounting environment.
- Proficiency in executive financial management reporting, including budget variance analysis and compiling financial reports.
- Ability to work independently or in a team under limited direction, analysing problems and delivering solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for multidisciplinary environments.
- Knowledge of regulated financial practices and systems, including financial management tools.
- Understanding of Aboriginal culture and community.
- A degree or post-secondary qualification in Accounting, Finance, or Commerce is highly desirable.

For more information, please refer to the Role Description.

**Special Conditions**
- Out of hours work will be required
- Intra/interstate travel may be required.
- Incumbent will be required to participate in the department's Performance Development Program.
- Eligibility to work in Australia.

Please refer to the Role Description for all Special Conditions.

**Application Instructions**:
**Inclusion and Flexibility Statement**

TAFE SA offers a range of work options to attract and retain great staff, including part-time. We support employees to manage their work-life balance at all stages of their lives. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Enquiries**
Chelsea Dissanayake
Finance Business Partner, Finance & Performance
Ph: +61872103818

**Applications close**: 30/01/2025 11:45 PM

**Flexibility Statement**
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.