Deputy Secretary

**Deputy Secretary **(2 roles available)** - NSW Treasury**

Deputy Secretary - Commercial

Deputy Secretary - Financial Frameworks and Operations
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Make a difference to the people of NSW**:

- **Be part of a collaborative and high-performing organisation**:

- **Leverage your strategic public policy skills**

**Opportunity to provide executive leadership and strategic direction to deliver NSW Treasury’s vision and goals, and the Government’s policy and fiscal management initiatives.**

**About the Opportunity**
- Join a highly collaborative, flexible, and inclusive team in a progressive organisation._
- These _**_two (2) Deputy Secretary roles_**_ provide executive leadership and strategic direction in NSW Treasury to deliver NSW Treasury’s vision and goals, and the Government’s policy and fiscal management initiatives on a whole of government basis, consistent with the highest level of probity, best practice, and statutory compliance._

The **Deputy Secretary - Commercial** plays a key leadership role with responsibility for complex commercial arrangements and policy, leading a diverse team of professionals. The Commercial and Procurement Group (C&P) is responsible for commercial policy development; infrastructure and structured finance; managing the State’s shareholding in its commercial businesses; managing major asset transactions; leading the development and oversight of the State’s banking and financial services arrangements and managing whole-of-government procurement policies and activities. Read more about this role in the **role description**.

The **Deputy Secretary - Financial Frameworks and Operations** provides executive leadership and strategic direction for the State sector financial reporting frameworks and governance, and also leads Treasury functional Groups, including People & Culture, Finance, Information Technology and Communications. Critical to this role is the capacity to lead strategic advice to support the delivery of the Government’s economic policy and fiscal management initiatives on a whole of government basis consistent with the highest level of probity, best practice, and statutory compliance. Read more about this role in the **role description**.

**About You**
- Ideally, you will embody these attributes:_
- ** You are an informed influencer** —contributing to the development of departmental strategic and business plans; representing NSW Treasury in diverse fora, working parties and committees, both within and external to the NSW public sector; and effectively articulating NSW Treasury’s and the Government’s position on key issues and policies.
- **You are a trusted expert advisor **— leading and directing advice to inform Government policy, with a strong understanding of public service principles and the context in which public policy is developed and public administration conducted.
- **You are a strategic thinker **— demonstrating and the capacity to provide authoritative, strategic, and well-balanced advice and recommendations to the Secretary and the Treasurer**.**:

- **You are an experienced leader **— making a difference by leading and directing resources to deliver key strategic initiatives and programs; and providing leadership to, and supporting the ongoing professional development of, reporting staff.
- **You can deliver **— bringing an established track record of achievement and delivery as a senior leader.
- **You** **are a collaborator **— partnering with colleagues, agencies, and diverse stakeholders to deliver Treasury’s programs and functions.
- **You have strong commercial and financial acumen — **drawing on extensive knowledge and understanding of financial and risk management frameworks.

**About NSW Treasury**
- NSW Treasury is the NSW Government’s principal whole-of-government financial and economic adviser._

Treasury provides advice to inform budget decision-making; manages the State’s principal financial assets and liabilities; monitors the performance of its commercial agencies; advises on performance and financial management policies; and supports the development of policy advice and implementation of programs focused on energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation, and the transformation to a new low-cost, clean-energy economy.

Our state is made up of diverse communities with different needs. Treasury assists the Government to serve these communities by supporting the design and delivery of policies and programs. It is essential that we understand and involve these communities in delivering our work.

Visit the NSW Treasury website for further information about our structure and functions: treasury.nsw.gov.au/about-treasury/about-nsw-treasury

**Talent Pool**

A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process. A talent pool represents a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role or similar Deputy Secretary level roles, and who may be considered fo