Seeking a Program Financial Specialist who has excellent analytical and investigative skills and enjoy active engagement with staff to elicit information and provide budget spend and forecast advice.

Job details

The department is seeking a Program Financial Specialist to assist the Technology Group develop effective financial and reporting practices and to provide accurate and timely financial and resource information and advice across sets of projects and other procurement areas, to better inform investment decisions.

The role:

By leveraging your skill and proficiency as a planner, estimator, budget and funding manager alongside your demonstrable experience managing and reporting project expenses and billing, you will help the Agency achieve its outcomes by monitoring and reporting budget effectiveness over project lifecycles.

You will need to be able to proficiently juggle budget, resource stocktake and reporting and ensure Budget allocation, forecasting and tracking is accurate and timely across large numbers of projects.

You will need to be approachable with a calm demeaner and be available to guide teams understanding of your role and the need for information accuracy so you represent project budget against outcomes accurately to show return on investment and or cost overruns.

Further, you will understand and have experience demonstrating how managing program level budgets to schedule can provide insights into effective delivery management, and its effect on delivery capacity when project schedules overrun.

Key duties and responsibilities

Must have skills and experience with (mandatory):

• Analysing and interpreting project financial data to assist the executive with business decisions
• Developing and maintaining financial models for forecasting and budgeting.
• Monitoring spend trends and providing actionable insights to assist with managing budgets.
• Eliciting accurate and contemporary information from project managers and delivery leads to prepare reports.
• Collaborating with internal Groups to streamline operations and financial processes.
• Effectively communicating project financial information to non-financial staff, clients, or stakeholders.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of project procedures.
• Managing financial systems and databases, ensuring data integrity.
• Auditing and tracking resource capacity for programs and projects.

The following additional skills and experience would be of benefit:

• Experience undertaking financial and resource activities in organisation systems such as; TechOne, Aurion, SAP, Concur.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Bachelor in Finance or 5 years relevant experience.
• Working knowledge and experience using project tools such as; DevOps, Jira, GitHub, Confluence.

Contract: 12 Months Contract with 2 x 12 months contract extension.

Security Required: Must have a Baseline Security Clearance.

Location - Canberra - Hybrid Flexibility with working from home and in the office, and working hours. We request you are in the office at least 3 days per week.

How to Apply

Please upload your resume to apply. Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks

Closing date: Sunday 18 May 2025 by 9am Canberra time

Call Joanne Finchett on 0480 002454 or email [email protected] for any further information