Support the administration of the department's funding governance model to schools, ensuring compliance with key policies and legislative requirements.
About the Department The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives.
It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st-century economy and society.
About the Division The Financial Services Division is responsible for designing and implementing financial management principles, processes, and systems to ensure that managers have the necessary support to execute their financial management responsibilities.
The Division is responsible for establishing the appropriate financial management and assurance environment within schools, groups, regions, and the statutory authorities.
The Division also administers programs supporting students to access education provision including student transport assistance programs and the Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund.
The Division operates on three levels to fulfil its responsibilities: strategic to support decision making control, assurance and governance to ensure compliance with legislation and standards operational to provide functional support and service delivery The Division has a key role in supporting the second line of defence through its oversight functions.
About the Finance & Compliance Branch The Finance & Compliance Branch is responsible for ensuring that the financial records of the department are maintained in an accurate manner that enables the timely extraction and reporting of financial data across the department.
In addition, the Branch is responsible for the compilation of the department's financial and taxation reporting requirements to its various stakeholders, ensuring the department's compliance with the Department of Treasury and Finance's (DTF) Financial Management requirements, Taxation Compliance Frameworks, financial policies and providing departmental accounting, tax, and insurance services for both corporate and schools.
The branch is also responsible for monitoring financial risks and controls, delivering a second line of defence function for the department through effective risk management and business monitoring for both corporate and schools.
About the role This role supports the department's compliance with the Financial Management Act 1994 (the Act), Standing Directions 2018 under the Act, DTF's Financial Reporting Directions, Australian and Victorian tax legislations, and Government Accounting and Australian Accounting Standards.
The role requires supporting the administration of the department's funding governance model to schools, ensuring compliance with key policies and legislative requirements, coordinating annual attestation processes (for both the department and schools), aiding systems implementation and management, as well as maintaining the department's financial and internal control frameworks.
The role will also assist the Manager, Financial Compliance with the team's management in meeting financial management and taxation compliance requirements.
The role will maintain key linkages with relevant central agencies, other departments, portfolio entities, and within the department and schools to achieve a high level of support in the oversight, monitoring, and compliance with the Government's financial management policies and funding governance model.
About You The ideal candidate will have strong analytical capability, experience, and expertise in managing compliance, governance, and assurance monitoring and reporting processes, and in ensuring financial policies, procedures, and activities reflect and comply with legislative and departmental requirements.
Technical expertise and experience in compliance reporting processes regarding the Financial Management Act 1994 and Standing Directions 2018 under the Financial Management Act 1994 would be highly advantageous.
They will also: have experience in providing specialist advice possess highly developed written and verbal communication skills across a wide range of mediums (e.g., reporting and brief writing, dealing with ad hoc stakeholder queries) be highly organised and able to work within tight deadlines, adaptable to change, able to prioritise, multi-task, and display a high level of accuracy and attention to detail be a collaborative team player, who can support and motivate those around them possess excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills, to provide excellent customer and team support be able to assist with team management to support the delivery of outcomes Government experience or business knowledge of the department is desirable.
Qualifications Essential: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent, membership with CPA, CA or equivalent and relevant and transferrable experience, knowledge, and skills in financial compliance.
Bachelor's degree in an analytical field, Mathematics, IT, Engineering, or Science is desirable.
Further Information For more details regarding this position please see the attached position description.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability, and neurodiversity.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page.
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Melissa Male - Manager Financial Compliance via #J-18808-Ljbffr
