Manager/financial Audit Learning and Development

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full Time - Fixed Term

Organisation: Victorian Auditor-General's Office

**Salary**: $134,593 - $157,355

Occupation: Accounting

Reference: 1056

**Who is VAGO?**:
The Victorian Auditor General’s Office (VAGO) is a critical part of Victoria’s integrity system. Independent to Parliament, VAGO ensures the accountability of the State Government through audits and assurance reviews of public sector agencies.

**Why VAGO?**:
VAGO and the Financial Audit (FA) division have begun a project to design and develop various learning initiatives to support the capability uplift of our employees. As a member of the highly collaborative project team, your focus will be to work with the Instructional Designer, Audit Quality team and Financial Audit Stakeholders leveraging your expertise to support the development of learning initiatives.

VAGO is dedicated to putting its people first and offers a working life that aligns your professional and personal values. VAGO and FA are committed to evolving the L&D landscape, embedding an inclusive culture of learning where UX and employee experience are always at the top of the priority list.
- **Work with Impact**: Take on interesting and rewarding work that makes a difference to our employees and the community.
- **Flextime**: Accrue time-in lieu to take at a mutually agreed time.
- **Home-Office**: Enjoy a dedicated, ergonomic home office set-up on commencement.
- **Accessible and inspiring leaders**: Learn and engage with diverse leaders from across VAGO and FA.

**What's the role?**:
This role is specific to our development and delivery of audit specific learning content of the financial audit curriculum.

You will be responsible for:
**_ Learning and Development: _**Create or source of adult learning materials, including preparation of scripts for development of e-learning content by our instructional designer. Ensure content is accurate, relevant and engaging.

**_ Professional Development:_**_ _Maintaining your knowledge of industry trends, developments, emerging technologies relevant to the audit learning and development.

**_ Relationships: _**Develop and maintain strong and constructive relationships with:

- the learning and development project team
- the project sponsor and project owner
- the financial audit division.

**_Management:_**_ _Proactive management of the delivery of assigned learning and development modules and associated tasks to achieve project priorities and milestones.

**_ Behaviour:_**_ _Promote and model the established VAGO values set, with emphasis on role modelling leadership behaviours and meeting our ethical requirements.

**_ Compliance:_**_ _Meet corporate governance requirements by ensuring work is delivered in accordance with legislative and policy requirements.

**_ Experience: _**Experience as a financial audit manager is required. Experience in developing and delivering effective training programs is desirable.

**Who we're looking for**:
This is a two-year fixed term opportunity that would suit an experienced Senior Audit Manager who has ideally, but not essential, worked with learning and project team in the past. Key to your success will be your ability to;
- Simplify technical information, communicating it to Instructional Designers, Project team and other stakeholders
- Take a learner-centric approach to deeply understand the diverse range of your target audiences and effectively communicate these to a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Exhibit strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to identify training gaps, tailor solutions and adjust as required.
- Be innovative and proactively drive change and demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate initiative and sound judgement in responding to/escalating issues.

**Previous Experience**:

- Proven working experience in Audit (preferably public sector)
- Excellent knowledge of Audit processes
- An understanding of development and curriculum planning.
- CAANZ/CPA Qualification
- Previous project management experience.

Don’t tick all the boxes? We’d still love to hear from you. You don't need to tick all the boxes to be amazing.

**What VAGO can offer you**:
We are a diverse bunch at VAGO so you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. We are committed to building a workplace that welcomes applicants of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians.

Within our collaborative and team-oriented environment, you will have the opportunity to take on a leadership role, providing guidance and creating growth opportunities for our junior staff. Your direct involvement with our AQ, FA and L&D teams will also afford you valuable exposure to the strategic aspects and project planning processes.

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