Finance Business Partner - Manuka, Australia - Catholic Education Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn
1 month ago
Description
Employment Type:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary Range:
Grade 6 $121,552 to $133,703 plus Superannuation (based on skills and experience)
Start Date:
Feb/March 2024
Closing Date: 11.55 pm, Sunday
Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn (CECG) plays an integral role in education in the ACT and NSW, operating 56 Catholic Systemic Schools and eight Early Learning Centres.
About the Role
As a Finance Partner for the Catholic Education Office (CEO), your role will be focused on being a strong support and partner to senior stakeholders and CEO executives within the organisation.
Working together with the Finance team, you will provide crucial financial analysis and reporting services, including meaningful financial insights and advice.
Your role will include providing detailed financial planning and analysis services to your Service Area partners, including budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, financial analyses, and other ad hoc requirements.
This role sees you building relationships with critical internal clients across the organisation and driving initiatives to continuously evolve FP&A services to support the performance and operations of CE.
Key Responsibilities
As a CEO Finance business partner, you will be accountable for:
- Monthly results preparation, analysis, and management reporting, including analysis of P&L results during and following period end close, and the preparation of monthly management packs
- Perform financial budgeting, forecasting, and planning to better enable the organisation to achieve its strategic goals.
- Perform financial analysis including scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, driverbased analysis, and other forms of financial modeling.
- Provide meaningful financial insights to clients through regular and ad hoc management reporting.
- Support continuous improvement through BAU activities and projects.
Benefits and Opportunities
- Positive and collaborative workplace culture
- Permanent contract
- Attractive remuneration package
- Access to salary packaging, including novated leasing
- 24 weeks of paid parental leave (maternity/adoption)
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave (paternity/noninitial primary carer leave)
- Support for professional development and study opportunities
Essential Criteria
- The successful applicant will hold tertiary qualifications in Accounting or Business and hold current membership of a relevant professional accounting body such as CA/CPA.
- Minimum of 5 years experience across similar Finance roles.
- Experience within Financial Planning & Analysis functions.
- Prior experience engaging with senior leadership and providing timely decision support.
- Proven ability to access, analyse, and interpret complex data, enabling robust evaluation of annual planning processes and supporting continuous improvement of services
- A strong understanding of financial systems and reporting tools will mean that you are wellplaced to recommend improvements and optimisation.
- Proven effective consultation, facilitation, and effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to develop manage & influence stakeholders, and build partnerships to support effective organisational change.
- Able to communicate complex financial information into understandable insights and advice.
- Financial modeling and business case development skills.
Application Process
Applicants must submit a current resume and cover letter addressing the essential criteria outlined above. The cover letter should be no more than three pages.
Further information about the role and Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn is available on the website.
Who are we?:
Catholic Education, Canberra and Goulburn (CECG) plays an integral role in education both in the ACT and NSW, covering 88,000 square kilometres covering the whole of the ACT and extending from Pambula on the south coast, to Crookwell in the North, through to the western point of Lake Cargelligo.
Operating 56 Schools and 8 Early Learning Centres Catholic Education Canberra & Goulburn is key to education of over 21,000 students within the Diocese and employing over 2,100 professionals.
As a diverse and inclusive workforce, Catholic Education offers career opportunities across the ACT and NSW regions including providing support and mentoring for graduate teachers as well as professional learning and career development programs tailored to individual needs.
Our vision:
Our strategic vision to deliver learning and experiences in Catholic Education that will shape a strong sense of spiritual self and wellbeing and equip students to be ethical, agile thinkers who strive to make a positive contribution in the world around them.
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