Finance Assurance Lead: Transformation & Systems Readiness

City of Boroondara; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 136,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Boroondara is undergoing a Transforming Boroondara Program and seeks a Finance Assurance Lead to ensure finance outcomes of a major systems and process change are right. The role reports to the Head of Transformation Program Delivery and has a matrix relationship with the CFO.

You will work hands-on to ensure finance processes, controls, data and reporting are well designed, tested and understood before go-live, and to optimise outcomes across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in governance, financial controls or assurance within a large organisation.
• Ability to design, test and coordinate financial impacts of major system implementations.
• Proven track record of translating finance needs into system controls and processes.

Responsibilities

• Work out finance implications of Transforming Boroondara projects and data flows.
• Collaborate with finance, project and technical teams to design controls and governance.
• Help design, build and test integrations between systems and plan data migrations.
• Investigate financial, data and reconciliation issues and drive root-cause analysis.
• Build finance capability and ownership of new processes post go-live.
• Advise the CFO on design decisions, readiness, and issue escalation.

Skills

Financial & management accounting

ERP implementation & system

Data reconciliation & testing

System integration concepts

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor/Master in accounting/finance or commerce

CPA/CA or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Fusion Financials

Job description

City of Boroondara is undergoing a Transforming Boroondara Program and seeks a Finance Assurance Lead to ensure finance outcomes of a major systems and process change are right. The role reports to the Head of Transformation Program Delivery and has a matrix relationship with the CFO.

You will work hands-on to ensure finance processes, controls, data and reporting are well designed, tested and understood before go-live, and to optimise outcomes across the organisation.