Career Opportunities: Finance Officer (70590)

Finance Officer

• Location – Parramatta based office, with work from home/office hybrid model
• Employment type - Ongoing Fulltime role
• Salary - Clerk Grade 7/8, $106,025 - $117,363 per annum, plus employer’s contribution to superannuation
• Industry leading training with ongoing career development and support

Your role

A great opportunity is available within Teacher & Police Housing (HomesNSW). The Finance Officer will assist in delivering high-quality financial services and resources, providing essential financial advice and systems to support the business. This role ensures that all transactions, projects, and associated reporting are executed efficiently and accurately, keeping management informed of the financial position of our residential properties in rural and remote NSW.

What you’ll do

You’ll be part of a high performing small finance team.

In addition to the usual month-end and year-end financial general ledger activities with a finance officer role, you will oversee high-volume transactions relating to property maintenance and other property related transactions.

You will be the finance business partner to the internal Tenancy and Building Services teams. Working closely with both teams to resolve any transaction issues.

You will monitor, assess and implement continuous process improvements which require a high level of communication skills to resolve business queries between internal and external stakeholders. External stakeholders include Department of Education, NSW Police Force, real estate managing agents, utility companies and local councils.

Working experience with Salesforce and SAP WBS project modules would be highly regarded but not essential.

What we’re looking for

• Tertiary qualifications in, or studying towards a Commerce or Finance or a related discipline or extensive experience in leading, managing and delivering in a financial services environment.
• An experienced Finance Officer with the ability to utilise judgement and take initiative to provide high level of support and customer service.
• Ability to work in a demanding, busy and complex environment where there are competing priorities and staff are often working to strict deadlines, while maintaining professionalism and excellent customer relations with internal and external customers.
• Deliver appropriate support to the team to ensure that business needs are met and core functions are performed as effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Working independently to provide high level outcomes.

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment (currently 2 days in office)
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close Monday, 04 November 2024 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Selina Soon on 02 9852 3730 or at selena.soon@homes.nsw.gov.au.

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Syvonne Pereira on 0402 600 846 or via syvonne.pereira@dcj.nsw.gov.au.  

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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