Director, Financial Audits

ACT Audit Office; Canberra; Hybride; AUD 131 000 - 141 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working

Remote work up to 3 days per week

Generous leave provisions

Professional membership fee coverage

Résumé du poste

ACT Audit Office in Canberra seeks an experienced Director, Financial Audit to lead a high-performing team and ensure accountability within the ACT Public Sector. You will oversee audit work producing high-quality reports on financial statements and performance, with recommendations to improve administration and service delivery.

The role emphasizes integrity, professionalism, and collaboration, with development opportunities, flexible working, and a package reflecting senior public-sector

Qualifications

• A tertiary professional accounting/audit qualification or equivalent.
• Experience leading audit teams and delivering high-quality reports.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with integrity and professionalism.

Responsabilités

• Lead financial audit work and supervise small audit teams.
• Produce impartial, evidence-based audit reports on financial statements.
• Provide recommendations to improve administration and performance of ACT Public Sector agencies.

Connaissances

Accounting

Audit

Leadership

IT skills

Investigations

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Formation

Professional Accounting

Data Analytics

Information Technology

CPA Australia

CA ANZ

CISA

Outils

ERP systems

Description du poste

Established in 1990, the ACT Audit Office has served over three decades to provide an independent view of the ACT Public Sector, foster accountability in the public administration of the Territory and promote efficiency and effectiveness of ACT public services.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Director, Financial Audit with the highest level of personal integrity and excellent accounting, audit, information technology, investigatory, communication and interpersonal skills to join the financial audit team.

As the Director, Financial Audit, you will play a significant and dynamic role to ensure the highest levels of financial management and accountability within the ACT Government. Your work will have a direct impact on community confidence in the delivery of a range of critical services, from Health to Education, from Capital Infrastructure to Social Services by the ACT Public Sector.

You will assist and lead a diverse workforce in completing audit work to produce high quality, impartial, accurate and evidence-based audit reports on financial statements and statements of performance, with recommendations designed to improve the administration and performance of ACT Public Sector agencies.

The Benefits

The ACT Government is seen as a public sector leader in its approach to flexible working, investing in infrastructure to facilitate hybrid working such as state-of-the-art office spaces designed to promote collaborative working.

In addition, the Audit Office seeks to engender a sense of community, embraces diversity, and actively promotes a healthy work/life balance, including the opportunity to work remotely up to 3 days per week. Work structures are negotiated at a team level, with an emphasis placed on finding space to accommodate family and personal commitments to ensure you can bring your best self to the role.

You will also be supported in exploring your own professional development Learning Journey through complex and interesting work and training opportunities. The Audit Office offers a generous studies assistance program to provide you with support to undertake your professional post-graduate qualifications, including reimbursement of course fees and time off to study and attend exams.

Based on your experience and skills, you will be offered a competitive remuneration between $131 358 to $141 147 plus superannuation per annum. Additional benefits include generous leave provisions and payment of up to two professional membership fees.

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

The key to success in this role will be your combination of your prior experience in financial audits, leading small audit teams, well developed communication skills and good human resources management skills. You will also align strongly to, and actively role model to your team, our organisational values of:

• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Respect
• Learning and Innovation

You will most likely have tertiary Professional Accounting, Audit, Data Analytics and/or Information Technology qualifications. It would also be ideal if you held post graduate qualifications from one or more of CPA Australia, CA ANZ and CISA.

Notes:

This is a temporary position anticipated to commence on 1 February 2027 and will initially be offered for a period of three months, with the possibility of extension for up to a further six months and/or permanency.

All ACT Government employees are required to undergo employment screening. This position is a Position of Trust 1 and therefore, if you are selected, you will have Baseline security clearance. If you do not have Baseline security clearance, the Office will undertake an internal security assessment to assess against this criterion, while you await to apply for AGSVA Baseline Security Clearance. If your Baseline security clearance application is not successful, your employment in the role will be terminated.

A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.