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 Finance Manager leads a small team responsible for MoAD’s BAU financial operations, financial accounting, and budget and financial reporting. The Finance Manager reports to the CFO, and supervises the Senior Finance Officer (who has two direct reports), and also the Budget Officer, to ensure outcomes are delivered to a high quality within required timeframes.
The key duties of the position include:
Under the direction of the CFO, the Finance Manager will:
- Support MoAD’s financial operations and financial accounting, including through endorsing monthly and annual reports and reconciliations.
- Deliver high quality and timely monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports for internal and external stakeholders. As part of this, lead annual financial statements preparations as key contact with the ANAO during audit planning, and interim and final audit phases.
- Authorise MoAD’s external reporting requirements in CBMS including monthly and annual actuals and estimates. Support the CFO in the external annual Budget reporting cycle performance and compliance.
- Supervise and lead the team, including reviewing and approving their work, providing clear instruction and guidance, and providing timely feedback through performance development, mentoring and professional development support.
- Coordinate and ensure compliance with financial law as reflected in financial policies, procedures and work instructions.
- Coordinate and assure regular reporting requirements such as senate estimates briefings, responses to Questions on Notice, and surveys from other Government agencies.
- Engage with, and provide high quality service and support, to internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead process and system improvements under the guidance of the CFO.
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
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.