Finance Business Partner - Child Youth and Family (CYF). Permanent Full Time – Location Flexible

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of Finance - Child Youth and Family (CYF), you will partner with senior leaders in our Child, Youth and Family (CYF) services to ensure financial sustainability and robust governance. You will provide financial expertise, insight, analysis, and leadership to enable the CYF businesses to make timely, meaningful, and effective financial decisions and deliver key commercial outcomes.

We are committed to our employees having access to a COVID safe office environment while enabling flexible work options.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the Head of Finance - Child Youth and Family (CYF) together with CYF senior leadership to: develop and implement short and long-term strategic and operational business plans in alignment with LWB and CYF strategy and purpose; support a culture of service excellence and embedding standards, behaviours and strategies for challenging the status quo and lasting improvements and efficiencies.
• Partner with senior leaders in CYF to enable timely, meaningful, and effective financial decisions and delivery of key commercial outcomes.
• Financial lead in the creation of business cases for new business / tender opportunities or remediation of existing business lines.
• Provision of high-level financial information, analysis and insight that demonstrates a thorough understanding of, and contribution to, the achievement of the objectives of CYF services.
• Supporting the overall budget, forecast and medium-term financial planning processes and outcomes for CYF as driven by the Financial Planning and Analysis function.
• Delivery of timely and accurate financial and commercial reporting for CYF including designing solutions that leverage key technologies i.e. data visualisation.
• Financial data & process integrity and compliance enhancing the control environment.

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary level qualifications in business, commerce, management, or relevant field. CA, CPA or equivalent.
• Experience in a business partnering position at a senior level with the ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated application of strong commercial acumen.
• Experience in developing and implementing short and long-term business plans and strategies within a large organisation.
• Advanced and proven problem-solving skills, and ability to think laterally and strategically.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Join one of AustraliaÂ’s largest and leading social-purpose organisations.
• Competitive salary with excellent salary packaging benefits through Maxxia.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Debra Neil at recruitment@lwb.org.au.

Applications close at midnight Sunday 7 April 2024.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA