• Coordinate and support executives and leaders to manage finance risks, issues and compliance.
• Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team.
• VPS Grade 5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety, Office of the Associate Secretary, is seeking a Senior Analyst Financial Governance and Compliance to provide a critical role within Finance and Procurement.

About the Business Unit

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) delivers a justice and community safety system that works to build a safer, fairer, and stronger Victoria.

The Finance and Procurement business unit provides department-wide financial, procurement and workplace services through strategic leadership and setting the direction, policy, and processes, and partnering with the department to build capability.

The Finance Branch leads the department's efforts to comply with government and legislative financial management responsibilities while driving a culture of strategic financial management across the department. It is responsible for the department's financial and budgetary policies and processes, including statutory reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, taxation compliance, government reporting (including Standing Directions), and facilitation of the annual budget process.

About the Role

The Senior Analyst Financial Governance and Compliance supports the Finance Business Unit to manage risks, issues and compliance, in line with DJCS standards, to meet its obligations, including compliance monitoring and reporting for leadership awareness and action and audit actions management

The position plays a critical role by providing information management support for Finance, specifically via SharePoint, by developing policies, procedures and support to drive desired practice - utilising audit tools to ensure appropriate security and access controls are maintained.

Strong stakeholder engagement and the ability to navigate change and ambiguity is required as part of the strategic financial governance team, to drive change initiatives, improve processes and meaningfully impact people and operations within Finance.

Some of your duties will include:

• Coordinate and support executives and leaders to manage risks, issues and compliance in line with DJCS standards, to enable Finance to meet its obligations, including compliance monitoring and reporting for leadership awareness and action, and audit actions management
• Provide information management support, specifically via SharePoint, developing policies and procedures to drive desired practice, and utilise audit tools to ensure appropriate security and access controls are maintained.
• Provide coordination, quality assurance and advisory function required to execute the Department's annual compliance attestation process for the Standing Directions (under the Financial Management Act)

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience implementing robust information management policy, practice and protocols via Microsoft SharePoint and other information repositories and application (strong technical understanding of SharePoint)
• Extensive experience in brief writing and development of written collateral within a government context
• Experience developing well-written and well-designed policies that drive required practice

Qualifications/requirements

• A relevant tertiary degree/qualification is desirable.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.