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About the Role

You'll make a tangible impact on the people of NSW, using your finance and accounting skills to help build a sustainable and thriving transport network for generations to come.

Responsibilities

Lead Sydney Metro’s external budgeting and forecasting activities, including forward estimates, State Budget submissions, Half-Year Review and year-end requirements, ensuring high-quality financial outcomes that support organisational priorities and external reporting obligations.
Coordinate complex budgeting and forecasting activities across the organisation, critically analyse actual and forecast financial performance, investigate material variances and budget movements, challenge assumptions and identify emerging financial risks and opportunities.
Apply strong financial and technical accounting knowledge to support robust forecasting, scenario analysis and informed decision-making.
Translate complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations, resolve complex budgeting and funding matters, maintain strong financial governance and contribute to continuous improvement in budgeting, forecasting and external reporting processes.

Requirements

Experienced finance professional with a strong background in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, management accounting or external financial reporting, developed within a large and complex organisation, government environment, infrastructure organisation or corporate finance function.
Strong analytical capability and financial judgement, with demonstrated experience critically reviewing budgets and forecasts, investigating financial trends and variances, challenging assumptions and developing comprehensive financial analysis to support senior management decision-making.
Trusted financial advisor who can take ownership of complex financial deliverables, manage competing priorities and deadlines and work collaboratively across multiple stakeholder groups.
Confident communicating complex financial matters, influencing stakeholders and providing clear, practical advice on financial issues, risks and opportunities.
Experience managing or contributing to complex external budget submissions, forward estimates, financial adjustments, government reporting or similar large-scale budgeting and forecasting processes will be highly regarded.

Skills

Financial planning and analysis
Budgeting
Forecasting
Management accounting
External financial reporting
Financial analysis
Financial judgement
Communication
Stakeholder management

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced

Education Level

Relevant tertiary qualifications or demonstrated equivalent professional experience
Professional membership with CPA Australia or Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

Benefits

Flexible work options may be available

About the Company

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.
Sydney Metro delivers Australia’s biggest public transport project and first driverless railway. We engage with our customers and community, and contribute to vibrant and attractive places through station design, interchanges and precincts.

Equal Opportunity

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply.