Business Operations Manager - Canberra, Australia - Australian Government Department of Defence

Description

The Role
The Business Operations Manager is a dedicated specialist providing support and advice to the Director, Defence Mobility and the wider directorate with regards to its day to day financial, contract and business activities. The Business Operations Manager will be responsible for ensuring the directorate meets their financial responsibilities in line with relevant authorities and budget commitments.

Some of the other key responsibilities:

Managing the Directorate's budget, ensuring efficient allocation and utilisation of Commonwealth funds; and

Coordinating financial submissions to Service Management Branch – Business Management Office.

This includes:

Creation of financial submission forms, archiving of financial submissions and related documents to support submission.

If you have a passion for finance and delivering excellent customer service to internal stakeholders we want to hear from you.

About our Team
The Defence Mobility Team is responsible for providing Mobility capability to Defence. This includes mobile phones, tablets, laptops, mobile applications, remote access solutions and mobile communication services across the various security classifications whether that be standalone or network connected. It is our mission to deliver leading edge sovereign capability to support Defence's mission. Due to the nature of the work, our successful candidate will predominantly work on-site, but we can offer unique, challenging and rewarding work, access to training, development and mentoring program and work life balance. Collectively we rely on each other's knowledge and strengths to achieve the end result.

Our Ideal Candidate
To accomplish their goals of delivering efficient and accurate business management and financial support, our ideal candidate will have:

Experience with the financial tools required to manage directorate budget, process invoices and have an understanding of contract/procurement management;

A willingness to work independently and collaboratively as part of a high performing team to harness information to support strategic direction;

Able to influence positive outcomes in a fast-paced environment; and

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly.