Finance Business Partner

**Ongoing, Full-Time**
- **Hybrid working - 4 days WFH/ 1 day in our Parramatta office**
- **Base Salary Range - $120,860 - $133,184 + super**

NSW Department of Education has an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced individual to join our thriving Finance team as a Finance Business Partner and service our new Early Childhood Division.

In this role you will:

- Support the operation of early childhood education funding programs, planning, and reporting activities consistent with Departmental, Treasury and Government requirements.
- Analyse information and data from a range of sources to develop and provide accurate advice and information to stakeholders and senior staff.
- Partner with divisions to support them with financial management, including supporting them with the annual budget process.
- Seek out and actively manage key stakeholder relationships across supported directorates.
- Analyse information and business data from a range of sources to support high quality correspondence, including reports and submissions for senior Departmental officers.
- Provide responsive, well researched and timely strategic and operational advice to senior managers and directors to support improved financial services, program delivery and administration.

**Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements, including - hybrid/work from home arrangements.
- 35-hour working week
- Competitive salary, salary sacrificing, and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Department to support your career growth

**We are seeking someone with**:

- Excellent finance customer service and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in a Finance Business Partner role (highly regarded)
- Tertiary qualifications in accounting or finance
- CA or CPA qualification highly regarded
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education and early childhood education and care

**Essential requirements of the role**
- Financial reporting and/or management accounting skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Advanced Excel skills
- Ability to deliver results within tight deadlines and conflicting priorities

**About the Department of Education**

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia, with nearly 100,000 employees across NSW in our schools and corporate offices. Our purpose is centred on the delivery of high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.

For more information about the Department of Education, please visit NSW Department of Education

**How to apply**

Attach a resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role as well as providing answers to the 2 pre-screening questions below:
**Targeted Question 1**

Describe your experience in analysing information and data from a range of sources to develop and provide accurate advice and information to stakeholders and senior staff (Max 400 words)

**Targeted Question 2**

Describe your experience in handling a challenging stakeholder and how you have built and improved on your relationship (Max 400 words)

**Closing date**: Thursday 24 August at 11:59pm.
- A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process. A talent pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months._