Financial Controller

Description:

About Us

At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

Your New Role

We are looking for a dynamic Financial Controller who will champion a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, guiding the development of robust financial structures, policies, and processes that enable our people to excel and stay ahead of regulatory requirements.

In this role, you will provide strategic leadership to a high-performing finance team, ensuring that accurate, timely, and compliant financial services underpin our delivery of impactful projects across the state.

Core Accountabilities:

• Manage the annual financial year-end close, including audits, statutory account preparation, and coordination of the Annual Report.
• Oversee Transactional Services and Payroll functions to ensure consistent, timely, and helpful service in payroll, payments, vendor creation, debtor management, and reporting.
• Establish and maintain best-practice accounting services, ensuring accuracy and compliance in General Ledger inputs/outputs and financial reporting.
• Oversee debt and treasury management, ensuring policy compliance, risk management, and timely information for optimal decision-making.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant statutory obligations (e.g., BAS, FBT, TPAR) and maintain up-to-date accounting policies and procedures.
• Design and uphold an effective internal control environment to mitigate financial and fraud risks.
• Prepare and contribute to Board and Audit and Risk Committee papers on financial, audit, and compliance matters.
• Act as a senior leader within the Enterprise Finance team to drive efficient financial processes, system functionality, and proactive risk mitigation.
• Lead ongoing improvements and strategies to enhance financial systems used by the Financial Operations and cross-functional teams.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce (or equivalent) with CA/CPA qualification
• Proven ability to drive financial performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide strategic financial insights
• Familiarity with Victorian Government financial compliance requirements (desirable)
• Strong proficiency in using financial systems and tools for reporting and management
• Advanced communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams
• Expert business acumen to steer financial and commercial outcomes
• Exceptional planning capabilities to meet organisational priorities and deadlines
• Results-driven, proactive leader able to motivate and mentor teams while driving accountability
• Proven success in building cross-functional partnerships and influencing positive change

Employee Benefits

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
• Professional development opportunities available including;
  • Study support
  • Mentoring programs
  • Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
• Novated leasing
• Purchase leave
• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonuses
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
• Modern onsite facilities

Application Process

• Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.
• At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.

Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 3rd April 2025. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

If you require further information about this role, please contact Recruitment Enquiries recruitment.enquiries@development.vic.gov.au

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.