The Finance team is committed to providing excellent client focused services to MoAD staff and is responsible for the financial management of MoAD, including:
- Financial operations such as accounts payable and receivable, treasury and cash management.
- Internal budgeting for both operational and capital budgets and providing financial advice to internal stakeholders.
- Asset management across a long-term lifecycle.
- Provision of high-quality financial reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
- Financial statement preparation and related month and year-end processes.
- Maintaining MoAD’s internal financial control environment and related administrative procedures.
- Financial Policy including financial delegations and Accountable Authority Instructions (AAI’s).
- External Budget management including maintaining MoAD’s entries into the Government’s Central Budget Management System (CBMS).
The Budget Officer is an integral part of the Finance Team and focuses primarily on internal budgeting and project accounting. The Budget Officer will work closely with the Finance Manager and the CFO 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 limited supervision, the Budget Officer will be required to:
- Assist with the development of the annual internal operating budget and perform the mid-year budget review, including staffing, supplier, revenue and operational projects.
- 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
Notes
This is an ongoing opportunity.
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.