About this role
Your Role as Lead - Finance Business Partner This role leads financial performance management by providing high-quality insights, supporting informed decision-making, driving disciplined cost management, and ensuring alignment with organisational strategy. You will oversees asset-related financial management and manages a team of Accountants to ensure the delivery of accurate and timely financial information. In this role you play a critical role in driving financial performance, supporting service viability, and ensuring funding compliance across government and client-funded programs. As a key strategic advisor to operational leaders, the role enables evidence-based decisions and supports service innovation, sustainability, and growth
You’ll deliver this role by:
• Partner closely with Executive and senior leaders to provide financial strategy and support informed, evidence-based decision making. • Deliver high-quality scenario modelling, cost–benefit analysis and financial insights that clarify and support strategic choices. • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable recommendations. • Provide trusted financial advisory support during business planning, reviews and investment decisions. • Lead annual budgeting and iterative forecasting processes across all portfolios. • Collaborate with leaders to understand cost drivers, operational changes and funding implications. • Ensure all forecasts are accurate, risk-adjusted, evidence based and aligned with organisational strategy. • Produce monthly performance reporting, including variance analysis, KPIs, trend analysis and insights for executive and program governance. • Identify emerging financial risks, opportunities and cost pressures with recommended mitigations. • Support for business cases for service expansions, new programs and tenders. • Lead and develop a small team of accountants, fostering capability, accuracy and a collaborative culture. • Lead enhancements to budgeting, reporting, modelling and data quality; champion effective use of ERP and analytics platforms such as Tech One and Power BI. • Develop tools, dashboards, SOPs and templates that streamline financial processes and insights.
What We Offer
• Attractive Remuneration plus packaging benefits – Boost your take-home pay by up to $18,550 annually through not-for-profit tax concessions • Flexibility and Balance: We offer a range of flexible work options to help you achieve the balance that works for you, hybrid work arrangements, purchased leave and flexible working hours.
What We’re Looking For
• Tertiary Degree in Accounting or Finance, supported by CA/CPA (or equivalent) professional qualification. • Extensive Experience in financial planning and analysis, management accounting and financial performance roles within medium-large organisations. • Strong capability in financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and performance reporting. • Proven ability to partner effectively with senior leaders across multiple portfolio’s. • Experience leading, coaching or mentoring finance staff to support capability growth and accuracy. • Ability to present and translate complex financial information clearly for non-financial stakeholders. • Advanced skills in ERP systems and reporting tools, such as Powel BI, Excel, Tech One or similar platforms. • Strong understanding of capital expenditure, asset management principles, cost centre structures and financial controls. • Demonstrated ability to interpret financial and operational data to support decision making, manage priories, meet deadlines and support month-end processes. A Valuable Addition, Yet Not a Must-Have!
• Experience preparing financial components of business cases and long-term asset plans. • Familiarity with government-funded environments and compliance frameworks. • Experience with organisational transformation, service redesign, or process re-engineering. Essential Requirements
• Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status (or as required by legislation and WMQ policy) • Relevant probity checks required by legislation and WMQ Limited policy. • Current Driver’s Licence and willingness to travel for work
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