Finance Advisory Officer

**Enable strategic financial leadership with meaningful outcomes**
- **As a Finance Advisory Officer, you will help shape smarter decisions, support key reforms, and influence outcomes that matter.**:

- **Salary ranges from $113,574 to $125,720 + super & leave loading.**:

- **Temporary full-time opportunity up to 12 months based at our Sydney Olympic Park location - flexible work arrangements will be considered.**

**About the role**
The Finance Advisory Officer delivers financial insights, analysis, and tools that support operational decision-making and drive improvements in business outcomes. Responsibilities include supporting budgeting and forecasting processes, preparing strategic submissions, and ensuring financial compliance across the organisation.

The position supports system and process enhancements and contributes to the successful delivery of change initiatives aligned with financial objectives. Additional responsibilities include coordinating financial reporting, supporting shared services reforms, contributing to policy development, and delivering training on finance systems and procedures.

For more information read the full Role Description: Role Description - Finance Advisory Officer.pdf

**About you**

You bring a strong foundation in financial analysis and business partnering, with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights that support strategic decision-making. You are confident navigating change, managing competing priorities, and building collaborative relationships to deliver high-quality financial outcomes across diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning aligned with organisational objectives
- Experience contributing to system implementations and shared service reforms
- Strong understanding of financial compliance, Treasury guidelines, and relevant legislation
- Proven capability in analysing financial data to identify risks, trends, and opportunities

**Essential Requirements**
- Tertiary qualifications in Commerce or Finance or Economics and/or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience with demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.

**About us**

The Office of Sport is the lead NSW Government agency for sport and active recreation. We offer a career with purpose and work that makes a difference. Delivering on our purpose of ‘Everyone Plays Here’, we are a unique workplace, where no two days are the same

Our work is spread across NSW, with ten Sport and Recreation Centres, five Olympic Sport Venues and offices throughout the state. We provide leadership, policies, programs, funding and infrastructure to enable participation in sport and active recreation. Our work makes a difference - improving health outcomes, connecting communities and making a stronger NSW.

Our team members are collaborative, creative, hardworking and innovative, brought together by a common goal of ensuring sport and active recreation is accessible for all people in NSW.

**How to apply?**
- A cover letter outlining your interest and suitability for the role (maximum 2 pages)
- An up-to-date CV outlining experience, skills & achievements relevant to this role (maximum 4 pages)
- Describe your experience working with non-finance stakeholders to improve financial performance or understanding.
- Describe your experience in preparing and managing budgets in a complex organisation. What tools or methodologies do you use

It is recommended that you use the STAR approach to ensure your response to these questions is comprehensive.

**What’s in it for you?**

The Office of Sport offers you the opportunity to make a direct, shared contribution and difference to sport and recreation in NSW and have a positive impact on quality of life of our clients. We offer a family-friendly and flexible working environment, competitive salaries, and generous leave entitlements. Our benefits include salary packaging, access to the Fitness Passport, the Employee Assistance Program.

Inclusion is a huge focus for the Office, internally and externally. In addition to actively promoting employment for women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQA+ individuals, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, we are also committed to increasing opportunities for everyone to participate in sport and active recreation. We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging.
- A talent pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months._