Head of Finance and Planning

Posted: 28/07/2025
- Closing Date: 10/08/2025
- Salary: $137,956.00 - $153,017.00
- Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Location: Canberra
- Job Category: Accounting, Finance

**About the National Film and Sound Archive**

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, telling the national story by collecting, preserving and sharing audiovisual media, the cultural experience platforms of our time. The collection itself dates back to 1935, making it one of the world’s oldest audiovisual collections. It is also one of the country’s most used cultural collections, with around 125 million views of collection content each year. The NFSA is in a period of significant change. Following increased Government investment, the institution is in a process of digital transformation, establishing the NFSA as Australia’s most dynamic and valued cultural organisation. We are rebuilding our curatorial workforce and developing the NFSA’s capacity to digitise our collection at scale - to preserve it for the future, to make sure it can be discovered, and to share it with all Australians.

We continue to work on developing a stable, secure and future-proof workforce across our four physical sites based in Canberra and Mitchell in the ACT as well as in Sydney and Melbourne.

We are also undergoing a program of business improvement for many of our corporate systems to improve efficiency and reduce manual handling.

We are an ambitious organisation, and we aim to be an employer of choice within the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector, providing exciting and challenging work, as well as favourable employment conditions and unique development opportunities for our staff.

**Cultural Values**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At the NFSA we prioritise the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is committed to ensuring a child-safe and child-friendly environment. All employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to, and support for these principles in theory and practice.

**About the Team**

The Finance section sits within the Corporate Branch and manages the day-to-day financial operations of the NFSA, budgeting & financial reporting, taxation obligations and valuation of assets.

**The Opportunity**

The Head of Finance and Planning (HoFP) works closely with the CEO as part of the Senior Executive Team to lead business planning and financial strategy for the NFSA. The HoFP will help to position the NFSA to achieve our ambitious agenda to be one of Australia’s most loved cultural institutions, by ensuring that our business planning and financial systems are sustainable and support delivery of NFSA’s strategic goals. The position is responsible for ensuring that the NFSA is making informed and prudent decisions to maximise the impact of Government funding while championing an entrepreneurial mindset. In this context, the institution is actively pursuing new opportunities for non-Government revenues.

The position reports directly to the Deputy CEO, with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the Director of Procurement and Legal and their teams directly reporting to the role. The HoFP also acts as the NFSA’s Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and is responsible for ensuring that the NFSA’s risk appetite is appropriately calibrated and that risks are identified and mitigated.
- Please note: This recruitment process is intended to fill both current and future vacancies. While the position on offer is Ongoing, a merit pool of suitable applicants may be established to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing positions within the next 18-months._

Under broad direction, this position is responsible for delivering the following functions:

- Work with the CEO and Senior Executive to develop the strategic financial direction of the organisation, including through a long-term sustainability strategy that ensures the NFSA:

- maximises its resources,
- undertakes multi-year business planning; and
- explores commercial initiatives.
- Actively contribute to the NSFA’s strategic planning framework and drive overall performance across the NFSA to achieve strategic goals.
- Deliver high-level strategic financial advice to the CEO, Senior Executive and the NFSA Board on all matters pertaining to strategy and management.
- With the CFO, co-lead the development and delivery of financial reporting and forecasting including financial analysis, interpretation and commentary on financial performance, to the Fina