Finance Officers

APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT
- $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**
There are multiple APS6 positions available across the Financial Reporting and Treasury Team including:

- Departmental Financial Reporting
- Administered Financial Reporting
- Treasury
- Financial Operations.

Each position reports to the relevant Assistant Director and contributes to the branch’s objectives by undertaking the day to day operations of the relevant team which includes daily/ fortnightly/monthly accounting processes, preparing and/or contributing financial statements, reporting monthly results to Department of Finance, developing budgets/forecasts and working with internal/ external stakeholders.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the APS Level 6 may include:
**Departmental Financial Reporting**:

- Month end accounting processes, including journals and reconciliations, across complex accounting matters such as leave provisions.
- Preparing financial statements and notes, with supporting work papers for audit.
- Monitoring the inbox and responding to queries/ providing advice, including ANAO requests.
- Interrogating the Financial Management Information System (i.e. SAP) to answer financial questions (on request) from internal stakeholders.
- Promoting and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Other duties as directed.

**Administered Financial Reporting**:

- Month end accounting processes, including journals and reconciliations.
- Preparing financial statements and notes, with supporting work papers for audit.
- Updating financial results in the Central Budget Management System as required.
- Monitoring the inbox and responding to queries/ providing advice, including ANAO requests.
- Interrogating the Financial Management Information System (i.e. SAP) to answer financial questions (on request) from internal stakeholders.
- Promoting and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Other duties as directed.

**Treasury**:

- Daily Treasury tasks such as receipting, drawdowns, bank reconciliations, funds management.
- Month end accounting processes, including journals and reconciliations.
- Completion of GST returns.
- Monitoring the inbox and responding to queries/ providing advice, including ANAO requests.
- Interrogating the Financial Management Information System (i.e. SAP) to answer financial questions (on request) from internal stakeholders.
- Promoting and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Other duties as directed.

**Financial Operations**:

- Month end accounting processes, including journals and reconciliations.
- Accounts Receivable and Debt Management activities.
- Accounts Payable support and relevant activities.
- Monitoring the inbox and responding to queries/ providing advice, including ANAO requests.
- Interrogating the Financial Management Information System (i.e. SAP) to answer financial questions (on request) from internal and external stakeholders.
- Promoting and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Other duties as directed.

**Qualifications and Education**
- **Essential**: Relevant accounting/ Finance experience.
- ** Highly regarded**: Relevant accounting/ Finance qualifications or working towards.

**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 al