El1 - Assistant Director, Finance

**Contact Officer**:

- **Closing Date**:

- 11.59pm AEDT, Thursday 20 November 2025

**The opportunity we have available**:
The Finance, Budget and Governance Division is looking to fill one Assistant Director position in the Financial Accounting Team and create an order of merit for our Finance Business Partner teams.

The Finance Business Partners deliver customer focused, fit-for-purpose and professional financial management and budgeting services on behalf of the Chief Financial Officer, to Senior Executives and staff, particularly on complex matters such as financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, costing and reporting.
- We are currently looking to fill 1 financial accountant position and create merit pool for both these roles to fill in future vacancies._

**What will you do?**

The Assistant Director within the Financial Accounting Team will be focused on financial reporting.

The role is dynamic and includes the following responsibilities:

- Meet statutory financial reporting requirements such as for the soft close and end of financial year financial statements,
- Performing month-end and year-end close processes,
- Assist preparing the annual financial statements plan including papers and advice for the Financial Statements Subcommittee and the Audit and Risk Committee,
- Prepare high quality accounting position papers and file notes,
- Cultivate productive working relationships with key internal stakeholders and external stakeholders including the Australian National Audit Office and the Department of Finance; and
- Prepare guidance documents.

The role of Assistant Director, Finance Business Partner key responsibilities include:

- Develop and manage departmental budgets, including staffing.
- Prepare monthly financial reports for Senior Executive, including variance analysis and commentary.
- Monitor and review monthly forecasts in partnership with our stakeholders.
- Provide advice on emerging and material financial impacts on the financial performance of our stakeholders.
- Foster and maintain effective working relationships to promote partnerships and seamless financial services.
- Track divisional staffing movements and recruitment activity.
- Support the development of internal funding proposals.
- Prepare monthly financial accruals.
- Co-ordinate input into the end of financial year process and ANAO audit requests and compliance activities

**Who are we looking for?**

- **Excellent relationship management skills**- we are looking for natural collaborators, comfortable and effectively working with people with different perspectives to find common ground and achieve outcomes. With the ability to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- **Eye for detail**- the capability to see the big picture but also to get the details right in order to build trust and confidence with stakeholders.
- **Resilience and adaptability**- the capability to adapt to changing priorities,**deal with uncertainty, support colleagues and foster a high-performance culture.
- **Professional** - presents and operates in a professional manner, operating**as a role model for other staff. Operates with resilience, while demonstrating depth of experience.
- **Great communication skills**- strong communication skills (written and verbal) to provide insight. The capability to analyse information, distil key messages and adapt delivery to influence the audience.

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**

Minimum requirements for this role include:

- Develop and maintain professional working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Well-developed written and interpersonal communication skills (written and verbal), including strong attention to detail.

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.

Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for applicants | Australian Public Service Commission.

**What else can we offer?**:
**Your life**:

- Find your purpose.
- We provide the environment you need through excellent conditions and a supportive, values-driven culture, allowing you to keep being you.
- Our values are to be: respectful, informed, collaborative, adaptive, accountable. Through our commitment to these values, we maintain a fulfilling and supportive environment that promotes the wellbeing of our people.
- We offer job security, flexible work arrangements, regional and city work locations, generous leave and superannuation entitlements and access to higher tiered pay points in some classifications.
- Access to join our 6 staff-led diversity networks which promote a culture of