Team Leader

About the Department
The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.
About the Victorian School Building Authority
The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand. We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.
About the Division
The Corporate Division provides corporate support to all VSBA teams and fulfills an important assurance and oversight role. They guide VSBA to achieve strategic objectives and ensure decision-making is transparent and accountable. The division also coordinates communication and consultation with local communities about their school building projects. They develop graphic design and video content, manage our social media channels, lead organisational customer service reform, distribute our e-newsletters and organise ministerial and other events for our projects.
About the Role
The Portfolio Partnering Unit is a team in the Partnering and Support Branch, in the Corporate Division of the VSBA. The team complements the finance and reporting functions of the VSBA and partners with the business to further enhance key inputs as part of reporting and accountability responsibilities, to be a trusted source of information and to drive insights across the organisation.
The Team Leader will manage and oversee the work of the business partner team in the Portfolio Partnering Unit. The Team Leader will:

- Lead a team to enhance the data inputs for the operational and delivery projects in the VSBA.
- Build positive working relationships with the project managers in the operational and delivery divisions and collaborate with internal corporate divisions to enhance data quality.
- Proactively identify areas in the business for analysis, develop recommendations and influence decision making.
- Communicate through verbal and written complex financial issues effectively.
- Motivate others to delivery against team objectives and builds team commitment.
- Interpret and transform the financial and non-financial data to enable effective reporting.
- Review and revise monthly forecasts and accruals for expenditure.
- Analyse data to articulate trends, provide rationale for variances and provide recommendations for embedding insights from analysis to drive action.
- Support the implementation of the VSBA Data Governance Framework through stakeholder engagement, communication, and process improvement activities.
- Act as data steward who ensures that the data policies and standards of the business are adhered to.
- Conduct performance appraisals.
- Clearly define staff roles and performance expectations.
- Provide support through timely resolution of professional issues and problems.
- Delegate responsibilities that will stretch staff to further their development.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.

**To be successful for this role you will need**:

- People management experience and ability to lead an effective team to deliver against goals.
- Well-developed interpersonal and engagement skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
- Reasonable finance and budgeting skills within a project environment.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and attention to detail.
- Problem solving mindset.
- Accounting Knowledge - A sound understanding of the accounting principles and standards as applied in the government sector.
- Ability to analyse detailed financial information into clear advice for management to drive outcomes.

All VSBA staff have a shared responsibility to meet the same service standards outlined in the VSBA Customer Service Charter. Our goal is to make every interaction with the VSBA a positive one for our customers, colleagues and key partners regardless of our individual role or team.
Attributes
- Motivates others to deliver against goals
- Builds team commitment by demonstrating personal conviction
- Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably
- Has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations
- Uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems
- Committed to delivering high quality outcomes for clients
- Seeks ways to improve services

Desirable Qualifications and Experience
- Desirable : Relevant tertiary qualification in Finance

Further Information
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Applications close 11:59pm on 22 September 2024.