Principal Finance

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / 24 Months

Organisation: Department of Health

**Salary**: $129,379 - $173,138

Occupation: Analyst

Reference: VG/DH/CS/1735622

**Role purpose**

The Principal Finance & Reporting Analyst position sits in the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) within the Strategy and Design Unit, reporting to the ICT Portfolio Manager. The Principal Finance & Reporting Analyst is responsible for translating the ICT operations into financial management and reporting for the ICT Project Portfolio, including funding, budget allocation, forecasting, actuals, and accruals. as well as undertaking ad hoc financial analysis and modelling.

This newly created position will play an integral role in ensuring the Strategy and Design Unit manages financial analysis and reporting for the ICT Project Portfolio as part of the Mid and End-of-Year review processes. The role will also be required to undertake ad hoc financial analysis and modelling.

In addition, the position will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining advanced financial systems that support delivery of the ICT portfolio of projects in collaboration with Program Managers and key stakeholders.

**Are you**:

- Skilled in financial accounting and reporting with attention to detail.
- A systems-thinker who can maintain an attention to detail, with the ability to problem solve and work collaboratively in a team environment.

**Technical Expertise**:

- Extensive experience and exposure to the IT industry and understanding all the phases of investment management and IT project delivery.
- Demonstrated experience working in a financial management role for medium to large government or commercial organisations, with reporting responsibilities to senior management.
- Good knowledge and understanding of the Victorian financial governance framework, corporate financial and reporting systems, chart of accounts structure and alignment with business needs.

**Knowledge and skills**:

- Financial Skills: significant experience with Government financial systems and a high level of skills in analysis and presentation of financial information.
- Stakeholder management: identifies issues in common for one or more stakeholders and uses to build mutually beneficial partnerships; identifies and responds to stakeholder's underlying needs; uses understanding of the stakeholder's organisational context to ensure outcomes are achieved; find innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues.
- Strategic planning: thinks at the big picture level; entertains wide-ranging possibilities in developing a vision for the future; works across a number of time frames; translates strategic direction into day-to-day activities.
- Leadership: builds team commitment by demonstrating personal conviction; translates organisational strategy into meaningful long-term plans and objectives for own area of responsibility; motivates others to deliver against goals.
- Systems thinking: diagnoses trends, obstacles and opportunities in the internal and external environment; understands the linkages between natural systems and communities to inform policy; conceptualises and defines the systems working within the organisation.

**Personal qualities**:

- Detail focus: observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.
- Conceptual and analytical ability: deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems, has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.
- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.

**Qualifications**:

- Appropriate tertiary qualifications in relevant areas such as Business Studies, Accounting, Finance, Economics or similar related disciplines.
- Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants or equivalent professional accounting body is desirable.

**Mandatory Vaccination Policy**

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