The Budget Officer is an integral part of the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) Finance Team and focuses primarily on internal budgeting and capital project accounting. The Budget Officer reports to the Finance Manager and will work closely with the Finance Officer to ensure MoAD’s budgets are appropriately prepared and monitored, and that the reporting to stakeholders is comprehensive and fit for purpose by contributing tailored variance commentary.
The key duties of the position include:
Under the direction of the Finance Manager, the Budget Officer will be required to:
- Develop the annual internal operating budget and perform the mid-year budget review, including
staffing, supplier, revenue and operational projects. - Develop and maintain the long-term capital project budgets.
- Meet with business areas and project managers to discuss their performance against budgets.
- Update MoAD’s financial forecast throughout the year to inform the CFO of expected results.
- Perform financial analysis to inform variance commentary for reporting to the executive, Audit,
Risk and Finance Committee and the Board. - Provide financial advice and ad-hoc financial analysis to business areas and project managers.
- Other finance functions as advised.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this position at MoAD, applicants must:
- be an Australian Citizen; and
- have a security clearance or be willing to undertake the process to obtain a baseline clearance (after commencement); and
- be willing to provide identity documents and undergo an identity pre-employment check through a Document Verification Service, if you are deemed to be the successful candidate.
Notes
Suitable candidates may be placed in a merit pool from this selection process and the pool may be used to fill similar ongoing or non-ongoing roles. Non-ongoing vacancies filled from a merit pool may be offered as a specified term.
