Assistant Manager

Department of Education Victoria; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Education Victoria is seeking a compliant and governance-focused professional to support the Financial Compliance team. You will assist with funding governance, taxation and financial policy adherence, coordinating attestations and strengthening internal controls across schools and the department.

Ideal candidates will have a finance or accounting background, CPA/CA membership, and strong stakeholder engagement skills to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with legislation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent.
• Membership with CPA, CA or equivalent and
• Relevant and transferrable experience, knowledge and skills in financial compliance.

Responsibilities

• Assist Manager, Financial Compliance with team management to meet financial management and taxation compliance requirements.
• Maintain linkages with central agencies, other departments and portfolio entities for oversight and compliance.
• Coordinate annual attestation processes for department and schools.
• Maintain the department's financial and internal control frameworks.

Skills

Compliance

Governance

Auditing

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

CPA/CA or equivalent

Job description

Department of Education Victoria – Melbourne VIC

The Department of Education (the department) provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

About the Division

The Financial Services Division (the Division) is responsible for designing and implementing financial management principles, processes and systems to ensure that managers have the necessary support to execute their financial management responsibilities. The Division is responsible for establishing the appropriate financial management and assurance environment within schools, groups, regions and the statutory authorities.

The Division also administers programs supporting students to access education provision including student transport assistance programs and the Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund.

The Division operates on three levels to fulfil its responsibilities:

• strategic to support decision making
• control, assurance and governance to ensure compliance with legislation and standards; and
• operational to provide functional support and service delivery.

The Division has a key role in supporting the second line of defence through its oversight functions.

The Finance and Compliance Branch (the branch) within the division is responsible for ensuring that the financial records of the department are maintained in an accurate manner that enables the timely extraction and reporting of financial data across the department.

In addition, the branch is responsible for the compilation of the department's financial and taxation reporting requirements to its various stakeholders, ensuring the department's compliance with the Department of Treasury and Finance's (DTF) Financial Management requirements, Taxation Compliance Frameworks, financial policies and providing of departmental accounting, tax and insurance services for both corporate and schools.

The branch is also responsible for monitoring financial risks and controls, delivering a second line of defence function for the department through effective risk management and business monitoring for both corporate and schools.

About the Role

This role supports the department's compliance with the Financial Management Act 1994 (the Act), Standing Directions 2018 under the Act, DTF's Financial Reporting Directions, Australian and Victorian tax legislations and Government Accounting and Australian Accounting Standards.

The role requires supporting the administration of the department's funding governance model to schools, ensuring compliance with key policies and legislative requirements, coordinating annual attestation processes (for both the department and schools), aiding systems implementation and management, as well as maintaining the department's financial and internal control frameworks. The role will also assist the Manager, Financial Compliance with the team's management in meeting financial management and taxation compliance requirements.

The role will maintain key linkages with relevant central agencies, other departments, portfolio entities and also within the department and schools to achieve a high level of support in the oversight, monitoring and compliance with the Government's financial management policies and funding governance model.

Attributes

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical capability, experience and expertise in managing compliance, governance and assurance monitoring and reporting processes, and in ensuring financial policies and procedures and activities reflect and comply with legislative and departmental requirements. Technical expertise and experience in compliance reporting processes regarding the Act and Standing Directions 2018 under the Act would be highly advantageous.

They will also:

• have experience in providing specialist advice
• possess highly developed written and verbal communication skills across a wide range of mediums (e.g., reporting and brief writing, dealing with ad hoc stakeholder queries)
• be highly organised and able to work within tight deadlines, adaptable to change, able to prioritise, multi-task and display a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• be a collaborative team player, who can support and motivate those around them
• possess excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills, to provide excellent customer and team support
• be able to assist with team management to support the delivery of outcomes.

Government experience or business knowledge of the department is desirable.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent,
• membership with CPA, CA or equivalent and
• relevant and transferrable experience, knowledge and skills in financial compliance

Further Information

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.

The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact David Youren, Acting Manager, Financial Compliance via (03) 9084 8*** or ************@education.vic.gov.au.

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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Applications close

11:59pm on Wednesday 7 October 2026