Contact: Gerard Wilson, Director, Digital Enablement About us The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government.
We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses.
We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.
About the role Reporting to the Program Enablement and Assurance Lead, the purpose of this role is to deliver the financial management and support activities for the division.
This includes the financial monitoring, producing descriptive analysis on trends and patterns of ongoing or emerging concern, and reporting and cost modelling for discrete projects and programs across the division.
This role will work closely with the Transformation Projects Directors to support the planning and monitoring of operational budgets, establishment of service costings, completion of finance journals and maintaining trust balances.
The finance analyst will also partner with project leads to support financial investment analysis to inform decision making.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills will be key to the role's success, to develop strong working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and produce high quality outputs in both written and verbal formats.
The role will suit someone who brings a good generalist knowledge across a broad range of financial management functions, while being able to work on multiple projects in parallel.
The candidate will be enthusiastic about financial data and will be intellectually curious, and able to think laterally and are open to new ideas.
About you To be considered for the role, you must be able to demonstrate: Use of conceptual and analytical skills, including demonstrated ability to prepare and present financial data which assists decision making and provides expert advice to Transformation Projects leadership on best practice performance reporting methods.
Demonstrate an advanced conceptual understanding and experience in managing operational budget processes.
Demonstrate expert knowledge and use innovative technologies to assemble and transform complex data into useful reports and presentations.
Apply expert knowledge to monitor and report financial performance to senior management and act as a key point of contact to influence key stakeholders in the development of financial management tools.
Develops and maintains strategic working relationships with a vast range of stakeholders from across and external to Transformation Projects to achieve successful outcomes.
Key Accountabilities Establish and maintain processes for the capture and management of financial data (actuals, budget, forecasts) to provide assurance and governance for the Transformation Projects Division's operational budget.
Apply well developed financial analytical skills to perform financial performance tracking, analysis and reporting for the Transformation Projects division, including the capture and reporting of financial risks.
Business partnering with the Transformation Projects Leadership team to assist in budget preparation and financial support including providing expert advice and direction.
Lead research and analysis activities for commercial and strategic investment including project level analysis of change initiatives, commercial and productivity cost modelling, and return on investment assessment to support strategic decision making.
Apply well developed financial specialist skills to conduct regular financial reviews and health checks on projects and programs and provide timely advice to senior management to ensure the successful outcome of the project or program.
Mandatory requirements Tertiary qualification in finance, economics, accounting, or related discipline.
Advanced skills in commonly used Microsoft Office suite.
Sound experience in using finance systems, tools and Oracle.
Experience in finance functions in a government department.
For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description.
This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.
How to apply Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on 28th October 2024.
All applications should include: a resume; and a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages) In accordance with the Jobs and Skills Exchange Policy, Victorian Public Service employees are required to apply via the JSE for primary consideration access.
Other relevant information The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.
Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form.
Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check.
DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace.
We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.
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