Director Management Accounting Group

Queensland Government; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government seeks a Director to lead the Management Accounting Group, overseeing budget management, budget systems and delivery of strategic financial advice to ensure the department's financial sustainability.

You will develop governance frameworks, lead budget reporting improvements, and provide analytics to support evidence-based decisions while aligning operations with government priorities.

Qualifications

• Extensive budget management and financial governance experience.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to provide strategic financial advice to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Management Accounting Group and oversee budget management and budget systems.
• Provide timely, independent strategic and operational financial advice and analysis to ensure financial sustainability.
• Develop governance and policy frameworks for budgetary reporting and financial governance.
• Monitor budget and reporting systems to ensure expenditure stays within constraints and deliver regular reports to executives and Finance Committee.
• Lead the delivery of financial data analytics and insights to drive performance and evidence-based decisions.

Job description

In this role you will be responsible for leading the Management Accounting Group. It will oversee budget management and budget systems for the department. It will provide timely, independent and informed strategic and operational financial advice and analysis to ensure the current and long term financial sustainability of QCS. The role will ensure that QCS budgetary policies, procedures, and operations are aligned to contemporary best practice, QCS strategic objectives, legislative requirements, and accounting principles and standards. A key focus of the role is to further enhance the service delivery approach of the Management Accounting Group to be contemporary, client focused, and centre led.The primary accountabilities of the Director Management Account Group include:- Develop the strategic direction for the Group and ensures alignment with Command, departmental and government priorities- Lead the development of financial information for the state budget and other government budgetary processes- Lead the development of QCS' operating budget- Monitor QCS's budget to ensure that expenditure is managed within budget constraints, and provide regular financial management reports to the department's Executive and to Finance Committee on QCS's budget and financial status.- Manage and enhance the department's budgetary reporting systems and tools.- Develop, implement and maintain budgetary and reporting systems relevant to the organisational requirements of QCS.- Analyse trends and develop business strategies to deliver outcomes and address issues- Encourage input from staff and communicates required actions and expected outcomes- Lead the development of governance and policy frameworks that ensure effective delivery of key business services functions within required guidelines- Appraise the effectiveness of business plans through ongoing monitoring of key performance indicators- Considers emerging trends, identifies long-term opportunities and aligns organisational operations in business support functions with strategic priorities. Lead the delivery of financial and business data analytics and interpretations of insights to drive business performance and support evidenced base decision making- Develop and deliver effective budgetary reporting systems to support departmental financial reporting requirements at the divisional, functional and project level including ad hoc reporting requirements.- Lead the provision of financial analysis services to support business case development and monitoring of service delivery performance.- Lead the development of financial governance and control practices and staff training programs in relation to financial analysis, systems and budgetary reporting services to ensure consistent, high quality practices across the department. Conducts risk assessments to minimise risk for the Group- Adopt contemporary human resource management practices to ensure development of a highly skilled, flexible and engaged team- Identifies and develops talent to create an engaged and committed workforceThe role description provides the minimum requirements for the role. The incumbent may be required to undertake other duties as required outside of these primary accountabilities.Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.