$115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
Canberra - ACT
The Role The Defence Financial System and Operations team is seeking a motivated and high performing leader to support financial systems sustainment and project capabilities.
This is an opportunity for finance or systems professionals with strong information technology capabilities to lead a high performing multi-disciplined team.
This team supports finance business stakeholders and systems during a period of major system and organisational transformation.
Your key responsibilities may include:
Managing staff and allocated resources ensuring alignment to priority areas.
Motivating and mentoring teams, aligning to complementary skills and allocate resources to deliver results in accordance with Defence's financial objectives.
Managing the implementation of financial systems projects or initiatives to improve business processes or related systems.
Developing and contributing to project reporting, organisational change activities, communication artefacts and executive briefs.
Developing financial systems policy and procedures to support the financial domain.
Building and sustaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as well as team members and provide constructive feedback.
Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders and subject matter experts to resolve financial systems incidents and issues.
Interpreting and complying with legislative policy and regulatory frameworks relating to financial systems.
Administering the maintenance of master data and security reviews for finance systems.
Leading teams and analysing complex systems accounting and reporting issues, applying expertise to design, and recommending and implementing solutions.
About our Team Defence Finance Group (DFG) are investing heavily in their financial systems including contributing to the largest ERP (SAP) implementation project in the Southern Hemisphere.
Cognos/TM1, SAP BW, data visualisation and a range of other BI tools are becoming a critical part of how we plan to put information in the hands of decision makers.
We are scratching the surface of what will be a significant BI and automation agenda for years to come.
By advancing our systems and processes, and investing in educating our people and our clients, we are improving the awareness and experience of finance across Defence.
This is an opportunity to be part of a dynamic team responsible for financial systems business support and the implementation of finance systems changes to enable DFG's reform agenda.
Working across a large, blended financial systems team of more than 35 staff, you will be exposed to:
Complex financial systems with extensive interfaces and dependencies.
Financial systems management and systems accounting experience.
ERP and web application implementations and upgrades.
BI reporting and development.
Data and statistical analytics; data modelling and visualisation.
Data warehousing and reporting.
Database and application development.
Business needs and UX/UI analysis and mapping.
Project management and project support and administration.
Robotic Process Automation, AI and machine learning.
E-Invoicing and FBT management tools.
Our Ideal Candidate Our ideal candidate will bring a positive attitude and energetic, customer-centric support to this role.
You are a capable, flexible leader and problem solver with strong analytical and conceptual skills.
Core competencies we are targeting include the demonstrated ability to:
Clearly communicate methodologies and practices at various level in order to achieve outcomes.
Manage complex issues and coordinate detailed or sensitive projects that impact on strategic, political or operational outcomes.
Provide strong leadership skill, focusing on team development with an inclusive style.
Lead a project or administrative team to achieve outcomes with the appropriate use of resources.
Provide clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing performance, delegating responsibility and guiding and developing people.
Drive sustainable change partnering collaboratively across the organisation and externally.
Analyse and interpret project performance against agreed plans and develop and evaluate strategies to achieve project outcomes.