El 1 - Assistant Director Treasury

• $115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% superannuation
• Canberra - ACT

The Role
As an EL1 Assistant Director within the Treasury Directorate you will be accountable for the following:

• Managing and leading a team, including providing clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing expectations and performance, delegating, guiding and developing people.
• Manage all aspects of Defence's treasury and banking functions including appropriation management, bank recognition.
• Undertake complex to very complex treasury tasks including the provision of high level advice.
• Manage the implementation of continuous improvement activities for treasury.
• Build and sustain relationships and liaise with major external and internal stakeholders including ANAO.
• Evaluate treasury initiatives to understand critical factors for success and engage in activities to achieve continuous improvement.
• Analyse very complex treasury issues, applying expertise to identify, design and recommend solutions to achieve outcomes.
• Managing financial governance requirements and ensuring compliance with the financial management framework.
• Developing position papers and providing sound financial advice to stakeholders on technical financial issues.
• Assessing and evaluating financial strategy, initiatives, projects, policy and procedures, and engaging in activities to achieve local and Departmental improvement.

• $115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% superannuation
• Canberra - ACT

The Role
As an EL1 Assistant Director within the Treasury Directorate you will be accountable for the following:

• Managing and leading a team, including providing clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing expectations and performance, delegating, guiding and developing people.
• Manage all aspects of Defence's treasury and banking functions including appropriation management, bank recognition.
• Undertake complex to very complex treasury tasks including the provision of high level advice.
• Manage the implementation of continuous improvement activities for treasury.
• Build and sustain relationships and liaise with major external and internal stakeholders including ANAO.
• Evaluate treasury initiatives to understand critical factors for success and engage in activities to achieve continuous improvement.
• Analyse very complex treasury issues, applying expertise to identify, design and recommend solutions to achieve outcomes.
• Managing financial governance requirements and ensuring compliance with the financial management framework.
• Developing position papers and providing sound financial advice to stakeholders on technical financial issues.
• Assessing and evaluating financial strategy, initiatives, projects, policy and procedures, and engaging in activities to achieve local and Departmental improvement.

About our Team
Directorate of Treasury provides shared service Treasury functions to the Department of Defence, Australian Submarine Agency and the Australian Signals Directorate. Treasury team is of high strategic importance to the Defence portfolio through management of Defence's appropriations and bank accounts in accordance with legislation. Treasury also provides policy advice on the creation, management, reporting and reconciliation of external bank accounts.
Our Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Our ideal candidate is an emerging leader, with a shared sense of purpose, who is committed to partnering with stakeholders to deliver outcomes through strategic advice and the provision of high quality financial information.
• You have sound capability of leading and developing a team, an influential communication style and the ability to explain technical information in simple terms.
• With demonstrated skills to translate financial information and strategy into business outcomes, you are an accomplished planner and project manager who takes a strategic outlook when aligning team activities to organisational goals and stakeholders objectives.

Other competencies we are targeting include:

• Demonstrated ability to drive sustainable change partnering collaboratively across an organisation and externally.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with a network of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Improvement focus, strong results orientation, and seeks to add value through improving processes and systems.
• This important leadership role will be ideally suited to professionals who not only want to apply their expertise, but also want to proactively influence significant change.

It is an exciting time for Defence Finance Group - if you are a leader in the above expertise, who can inspire and influence -now is the right to come and be part of our team!

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