Financial Advisor

The Role

Defence Finance Group (DFG) leads financial operations, management and performance across Defence, delivering financial support to projects and capability, management and business partnering services. Your role is to undertake financial analysis in support of finance business partnering for Defence's Specialist Groups, which sits within the Financial Performance and Management (FP&M) Division in DFG.

As an APS 6 Financial Advisor in the FP&M Division, you will:

• Combine your professional expertise with your commitment to support shared purpose and directions.
• Have a strong ability to analyse and interpret financial information such as budgets and management reporting.
• Respond positively to changes and enjoy working with others to understand complex issues.
• Assist DFG's clients by undertaking a range of financial analysis tasks and activities.

About our Team

The role of DFG is to provide the full range of financial advice, services and systems to the Defence Portfolio. DFG consists of two Divisions, FP&M Division and Budgets and Financial Services (B&FS) Division.

FP&M Division provides client facing finance partners across the country working closely with Defence Groups and Services to deliver management accounting, advice and support.

B&FS Division delivers the full range of central financial functions including Commonwealth and internal budgeting, statutory financial requirements, financial systems, operations and policies.

With a growing team of over 700 people spread across Australia, with significant offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, DFG is the largest finance function in the Commonwealth. We can offer a significant depth of career opportunities for finance professionals, accountants, financial systems experts and financial policy specialists.

DFG manages over $50 Billion in funding, which equates to a budget of over $100 million per day, with a huge variety of large complex projects running in parallel. The breadth of technical challenges and opportunities to develop and grow your experience and leadership capabilities are second to none.

Career development and movement is actively encouraged with a huge variety of subject matter areas to choose from. DFG encourages you to "choose your own career adventure", progressively building your capabilities by moving through an enormously diverse organisation, under the stability of the one employer.

DFG has been undertaking an expansive reform journey to ensure we are a trusted and professional business partner, delivering financial insight to inform decision-making across Defence. DFG works as one cohesive unit with a structure now harmonised with most other Commonwealth agencies. We are a large team that is actively sharing ideas and collaborating across an enormously diverse business.

As we enter the next exciting phase of our reform including major investment in systems and automation, as well as process and policy reform, we are looking for new talent from the private and public sector with fresh ways of thinking to join our rejuvenated culture.

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate would have established a career in accounting/finance in the private or public sectors that will give you a range of transferable skills to Defence. You have strong communication skills and stakeholder engagement capabilities, and you can effectively explain financial information to a broad range of stakeholders to support strategic directions set by the senior leadership.

To be successful in these roles you will possess and be able to maintain a positive "can-do" attitude along with the ability to demonstrate accuracy and a high level of attention to detail. You will be well organised and have a willingness to learn, take initiative, have an excellent work ethic and strong financial data analysis skills.

You will have a proven ability to exercise sound judgment and apply financial policy, supported by demonstrated business and commercial acumen. You will have adapted your knowledge across a broad range of situations developing a robust approach to influencing people and situations to achieve results.

Other competencies we are looking for:

• Thinks strategically and takes responsibility for managing work projects to achieve results.
• Improvement focus, strong results orientation, and seeks to add value through improving processes and systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical approach with conceptual capabilities and a flexible approach to complex financial issues.
• Ability to influence with written and verbal communication across a broad variety of stakeholders.

Application Closing Date: Monday 14 July 2025

For further information please review the job information pack, reference DFG/04984/25 on