About the role
In this role, you will be a key financial advisor, handling corporate program reporting, analysing financial performance, and helping to develop and track budgets and financial plans.

Work type: Permanent, full-time
Classification: Band 8 ($115,035 - $127,911 pa plus superannuation)

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering the Council Long Term Financial Plan and provide updated data to Executive Leadership Team and Councillors to enable informed strategic and financial decisions.
• Providing strategic financial advice and decision analysis support for Council and the Executive Leadership team.
• Assessing impacts and providing strategic guidance on the Councils Long Term Financial Plan on initiatives including business cases, structure and service reviews, process improvement, cost management initiatives etc.
• Overseeing organisational financial reporting by divisions to meet corporate timelines and standards.
• Delivering monthly and quarterly management reports for the Executive Leadership Team and Council, highlighting key variances to budget, risks, and opportunities.
• Delivering the preparation of the budgeted financial statements, long term financial plan and supporting notes/appendices in the annual budget publication.
• Delivering the organisational quarterly forecasting process.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have sound experience in financial performance management and analysis.

Essential Experience:

• Relevant Tertiary qualification in a commerce, accounting, or business.
• Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (essential).
• Sound experience in financial performance management and analysis.
• Highly developed analytical, investigative, interpretative and presentation skills.
• Ability to provide strategic advice to enable to decision making.
• Sound problem solving ability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively engage across all levels of an organisation, especially at the executive level.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively plan, organise and manage own time to achieve targets within a set timetable.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and contribute to a positive team environment with the drive to lead on delivering outcomes.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

Child Safety Responsibilities   
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Diversity and Inclusion  
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.  

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
Join the City of Greater Geelong, a community-focused workplace on Wadawurrung Country. We deliver over 130 services to our growing population, striving to make our city a great place to live, work, and study. Our central location for Central Geelong-based employees is the Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal, a modern, sustainable, and inclusive workplace, along with our outreach locations.

If you're passionate about inclusivity and community, apply now – we’d love to meet you!

A career with us
We support accessibility and encourage discussions about any adjustments or support you may need during the recruitment process.

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries

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Enquiries: Shaun Owens | Manager Financial Planning and Analysis | SOwens@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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