Financial Project Officer

**Role: Project Support Officer**

**Contract duration**: 12 months

**Extension Term**: 12 months

**Number of Extensions**: 2

**Location of work**: ACT

**Overview**

Our large Federal Government Client are seeking for Project Support Officer to work within there department to provide administrative support for a range of technically orientated projects and programs and diverse stakeholders.

Project Support Officer will engage with a number of stakeholders across the organisation and contribute to a variety of business, governance and reporting requirements for the Project Management Office (PMO) including but not limited to:

- Knowledge of Defence financial processes
- Experience/ability to lead a small finance team of 2 - 3 people
- Experience in the use of BORIS/ROMAN
- Motivation to autonomously investigate and resolve inconsistencies in data.
- Developing and maintaining program management dashboards, reporting processes and artefacts
- Managing Program reporting requirements by providing advice and direction to Program staff on the use of program reporting tools;
- Defining, establishing and maintaining access controls and quality processes for the Program;
- Maintaining program and project risk registers, including scheduling regular reviews and updates; and facilitating risk workshops.
- Providing support to program and project areas to assist with Commonwealth procurement activities;
- Maintaining configuration control of all program artefacts entered into the EDRMS;
- Investigating issues of medium complexity and producing related briefs for SES officer consumption; and
- Assisting with general administrative tasks to support the planning and conduct of program boards.

**Selection Criteria**

**Essential Criteria**:

- Knowledge of Defence financial processes
- Experience/ability to lead a small finance team of 2 - 3 people
- Experience in the use of BORIS/ROMAN
- Motivation to autonomously investigate and resolve inconsistencies in data.
- Demonstrated experience as a Project Support Officer including the following:

- Developing and maintaining program or project management dashboards and artefacts;
- Assisting with general administrative tasks to support the planning and conduct of program or project boards or similar;
- Maintaining program or project risk registers, including scheduling reviews and facilitating risk meetings;
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office suite of tools and
- Demonstrated experience in using an EDRMS tool

**Desirable Criteria**:

- Experience in supporting Programs & Projects with the financial management including resource and budget planning, review of monthly Program Financial expenditure and monthly accrual & variance reporting;
- Knowledge of Program and Project Management methodologies, including PRINCE2/Agile and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and experience in the use of a project scheduling tool;
- Understanding of Commonwealth procurement legislative requirements; and
- Produced briefs for senior management.

**_ Please note, due to the nature of the work Australian Citizenship and an active NV1 clearance is mandatory_**

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**Thao Dinh**
**Recruitment Consultant**
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