Director, Financial Audits

ACT; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 131,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Remote up to 3 days/week

Study assistance program

Generous leave provisions

Professional membership fees

Job summary

ACT Audit Office is seeking an experienced Director, Financial Audit to lead the financial audit team with integrity and strong accounting skills. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality, evidence-based audit reports and recommendations to improve ACT Public Sector performance.

You will oversee audits across agencies, collaborate across IT and analytics, and support professional development through a generous study assistance program.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial audits and leading small audit teams.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Accounting, audit, data analytics and IT knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform high-quality financial audits and deliver impartial reports.
• Oversee audit teams and coordinate multi-disciplinary workstreams.
• Provide recommendations to improve administration and performance of ACT public sector agencies.
• Uphold independence, integrity and professionalism in all activities.

Skills

Financial audits

Leading audit teams

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Information technology

Education

Tertiary accounting/audit qualifications

Postgraduate qualifications (CPA Australia / CA ANZ / CISA)

Job description

Closes: 03 November 2026

Classification: Auditor Band 3

Salary: $131,358 - $141,147 plus superannuation

Position No: 45819

Directorate: ACT Audit Office

Advertised (Gazettal date): 20 October 2026

Contact Officer: Rosario San Miguel on [e-mail] or [phone]

The Office

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:

• Independence
• 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

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.

You are encouraged to visit our website (www.audit.act.gov.au) to get to know more about us.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.