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About the Role
The Chief Financial Officer will lead financial decision-making for a complex and diverse NSW Government portfolio, acting as a strategic partner to divisional and agency heads to achieve budget discipline and sustainable performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial decision making.
- Set the financial direction for a large and diverse organisation.
- Build credibility to be a genuine partner to divisional and agency heads.
- Achieve budget discipline and sustainable performance.
- Provide cover and direction to the procurement function.
- Grow into a broader corporate leadership remit as the organisation evolves.
- Manage the pressures of today.
- Build for the future.
Requirements
- Proven senior finance leadership, ideally within government or with substantial exposure to it.
- Understand what good budget management looks like.
- Acumen to apply budget management discipline in a public sector context.
- Led substantial multidisciplinary teams.
- Comfortable in a minister's office.
- Comfortable with own team in Parramatta.
- Gravitas to engage at Band 3 Deputy Secretary, CEO and ministerial level.
- Collaborative and approachable.
- Highest standards of integrity.
- Sufficient strategic literacy to provide cover and direction to the procurement function.
- Experienced CFO or equivalent senior finance leader.
- Strong executive leadership with a deep track record of financial management, reporting, budgeting and forecasting at scale.
- Led the hard conversations that come with budget repair.
- Ability to hold ground without losing the room.
- Know how to build relationships across a matrix structure.
- Ability to earn respect and make people want to work with finance as partners.
- Calm, strategic presence.
Skills
- Financial management
- Reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Procurement strategy
- Relationship building
- Executive leadership
Location
- Parramatta
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior finance leadership
- CFO or equivalent senior finance leader
- Executive leadership
Education Level
- CA or CPA qualified
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive and negotiable remuneration package within Band 2 range
Benefits
- Opportunity to help improve government services
- Opportunity to be part of reform that benefits people across NSW
- Focus on delivering excellent customer service
- Focus on digital transformation
- Focus on regulatory reform
- Influence the future of the state
- Diverse and inclusive workplace
- Adjustments to the recruitment process for candidates with disability
About the Company
- The NSW Department of Customer Service is at the heart of how government works for the people of New South Wales.
- It is one of government's most complex and far-reaching portfolios.
- It encompasses digital government, AI and cyber policy, Service NSW, and a constellation of independent agencies.
- This portfolio drives policy affecting every corner of the state.
- A career at the Department of Customer Service (DCS) gives you the opportunity to help improve government services and be part of reform that benefits people across NSW.
- We are focused on delivering excellent customer service, digital transformation, and regulatory reform.
- Come join us and influence the future of our great state.
Equal Opportunity
- Belong in our diverse and inclusive workplace.
- The strength of our workforce lies in its diversity and embracing difference, while the key to our success is leveraging the contributions of employees with different backgrounds and perspectives.
- We provide adjustments to the recruitment process for candidates, including individuals with disability.