Finance Business Partner

• Join our dynamic Finance team and play a pivotal role in shaping business strategy with your financial expertise and insight
• Exciting 12-month temporary opportunity in the heart of Sydney CBD
• Flexible start & finish working hours + annual leave 20 days + additional flex leave (up to 18 days per year)

Classification grade:
Clerk Grade 9/10

Salary:
$129,464- $ 142,665 p.a. (excluding employer's contribution to superannuation and annualised leave loading.)

Work type
:
Full-Time – 35 hours per week, Temporary role up to 12 months – Presence in the office is required 3-4 times per week.

• Our primary place of work is the CSO Office located at 60-70 Elizabeth Street, Sydney. Please note we will be relocating to a new premises located at Parkline Place, 252 Pitt Street, Sydney in July 2026.

About The Role
The Finance Business Partner plays a pivotal role in supporting the CSO's strategic and operational objectives by ensuring the effective delivery of budgeting and financial analysis responsibilities. This position enables the CSO to meet its budget targets while upholding compliance with internal policies, legislative obligations, and external regulatory requirements. As an active contributor to the team, the role drives continuous improvement in financial processes and practices. It provides high-quality business insights and management accounting expertise to inform and guide decision-making across the organisation. Although reporting through the Finance function, the role is fully dedicated to supporting the business. This allows the Finance Business Partner to closely collaborate with the Executive Leadership Team, building strong working relationships and delivering commercial value through analysis, financial acumen, and strategic support.

About You
To succeed in this role, you will have relevant commercial experience working within large, complex organisations and a strong customer focus. Demonstrated skills and experience in building strong, collaborative partnerships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders is essential to ensure you become a trusted advisor. You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a proven ability to analyse and interpret the financial results of a business. You will contribute to maintaining robust governance and fit-for-purpose policies and processes.

Essential Requirements

• CA/CPA qualified with current professional membership
• Tertiary qualifications in Commerce or Finance or Economics and/or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience with demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.
• 3+ years' experience in a commercial and/or professional services environment

For more information about this role, please click here

How To Apply
For your application to be considered, you must submit your application online and include:

• An updated resume and a cover letter outlining your interest and suitability for the role
• A response to the pre-screening question when prompted and limit your response to 500 words per response.

The selection process may include a range of assessment techniques to assist hiring managers in determining your suitability for the role.

You can request adjustments throughout each step of the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or alternative formats to participate in the process, please contact Margaret Ters, Talent Acquisition Partner on or email to further discuss.

A recruitment pool may be created from this recruitment action for ongoing and temporary roles for this role or similar roles that may become available over the next 18 months.

Closing date: Tuesday, 23 Septemeber 2025
(AEST 7:59PM)

Recruitment enquires:
Margaret Ters, Talent Acquisition Partner,

Why work for CSO?
The NSW Crown Solicitors Office (CSO) provides high-quality and cost-effective legal services to the NSW Government and its agencies. As a trusted legal advisor to the NSW Government, our principal role is to advise and represent agencies so that they can deliver policies, programs and projects in a lawful, effective and efficient manner.

We act with integrity and professional independence, guided by the government sector's core values. We are focussed on providing excellent client service and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. We also provide our people with opportunities to learn, develop and adapt within an inclusive and supportive environment.

For more information about the CSO, click here.

Our commitment to flexible working
The CSO has adopted a teams-based approach to flexible working. We recognise that everyone has different needs and preferences, and our flexible work culture allows you to adapt your work routine to suit you. We're all about flexibility, productivity and driving good client outcomes.

We have generous leave provisions available for our employees that acknowledge individual preferences and responsibilities including:

• Up to 20 days recreation leave and up to 18 days flex leave per annum
• 20 days purchased leave annually
• Inclusive paid parental leave provisions of up to 16 weeks (14 weeks + 2 bonus weeks) which can be taken flexibly within the first 24 months to support the birth, adoption, altruistic surrogacy or permanent out-of-home care placement of a child
• Study time up to 4 hours per week
• Extended Leave of up to 44 days after 10 years or up to 30.8 days after 7 years of service.

How We Support Health & Wellbeing

• We offer an employee assistance program to support the wellbeing of employees in the workplace and in their personal lives, which also extends to family members
• Coaching services are available for people leaders and executives to learn and implement best practices to manage their team's wellbeing
• We offer an annual Flu Vaccination program
• We provide access to the Fitness Passport program – a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to staff and their families

CSO's commitment to diversity
At CSO, we believe a diverse and inclusive workforce contributes to the success of our organisation and we are committed to ensuring that our workforce reflects our diverse community.

We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, including people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTQIA+ community, culturally and linguistically diverse people, veterans and other diverse communities.