Financial Operations Team Leader

The Role

The Financial Operations team is a part of the Finance Section within the Australian War Memorial, led by the Chief Finance Officer. The Finance Section encompasses Budgets, Financial Operations, Financial Reporting and Analysis and Procurement. This role will report directly to the Manager, Financial Reporting and Analysis (MFRA) and will supervise three Finance Officers. Under limited direction, the main focus of this role is the delivery of the day-to-day Financial Operations activities for the Memorial to ensure accurate, high quality and responsive financial services that meet internal and external deadlines.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide supervision of three staff and coordination of the day-to-day activities relating to the Financial Operations team (accounts payable and receivable, travel and treasury services including credit card administration).
• Specific tasks include, but are not limited to:
  • running of daily and end of month system processes, including payment runs;
  • administration of travel process; 
  • administer the Financial Operations systems (QBT interface and SharePoint lists);
  • monitoring and reporting on the commercial catering contract; and
  • provision of quality assurance for transactional level data in the financial system (including vendor and customer master data) in accordance with current policies and procedures.
• Coordinate team resourcing to ensure workloads are effectively managed and financial processing and services are delivered accurately and to required timeframes.
• Under guidance from the MFRA, develop and maintain strong internal and external business relationships to proactively identify, mitigate and resolve queries in a professional and timely manner.
• Coordination and delivery of training assistance to internal stakeholders on financial operational procedures, including purchasing, credit cards, travel and revenue generation.
• Contribute to the identification and implementation of continuous business process improvements within Financial Operations to ensure compliance with legislation, policies and procedures.

Ongoing

This vacancy is a permanent position

To Apply 

• Applications will NOT be accepted via the “Apply for this Job” button below
• Applications must be complete and submitted as indicted on the Memorial Website
• Applications Close at 11:30pm on Thursday, 18 January 2024

The Memorial is committed to workplace diversity and maintains an environment that values the contribution of people from different backgrounds and experiences. The Memorial welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, veterans, mature age people, people from diverse backgrounds, and people with a disability.