Budget and Finance Analyst

**Contribute to effective and accurate budget coordination, reporting and provide support to senior management.**:

- **Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team.**:

- **VPS Grade 4: $97,955 - $111,142 plus superannuation.**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety, Office of the Associate Secretary, is seeking a **Budget and Finance Analyst** to provide a critical role within Finance and Procurement.

**About the Business Unit**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) delivers a justice and community safety system that works to build a safer, fairer, and stronger Victoria.

The Finance and Procurement business unit provides department-wide financial, procurement and workplace services through strategic leadership and setting the direction, policy, and processes, and partnering with the department to build capability.

The Finance Branch leads the department's efforts to comply with government and legislative financial management responsibilities while driving a culture of strategic financial management across the department. It is responsible for the department's financial and budgetary policies and processes, including statutory reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, taxation compliance, government reporting (including Standing Directions), and facilitation of the annual budget process.

**About the Role**

The primary responsibility of the Budget Analyst is to contribute to an effective and accurate budget coordination and monthly reporting process and to provide support and assistance to senior management within Corrections and Justice Services group (CJS) and other managers and staff to ensure high quality financial management outcomes for the organisation

Some of your duties will include:

- Responsibility for the preparation of regular financial and management reporting, including variance analysis, for a wide range of different audiences.
- Coordinate and respond to requests for financial information - for example, monthly accruals, audit requests, responses to Public Accounts and Estimates Committee.
- Engaging with CJS Managers to assist them with their budget management, through accurate and useful reporting and face to face meetings.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Sound understanding of budget development and reporting processes, particularly the annual budget cycle in the Victorian Public Sector.
- Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency in the use of a finance system such as Oracle Financials and Axiom Budget Management System (or similar) and Microsoft Excel and Power BI at an advanced level. Coordinate and respond to requests for financial information - for example, monthly accruals, audit requests, responses to Public Accounts and Estimates Committee.

**Qualifications/requirements**
- A relevant tertiary qualification, complemented by appropriate professional affiliation with either the
- CPA Australia or the Institute of Chartered Accountants is highly desirable.

**How to Apply**

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.