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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 Chief Financial Officer (CFO) you will lead and lead the Group Financial Planning and Analysis team of circa 10 FTE that provides short, mid and long term financial planning, analysis, and insights that support effective decision-making across the business to ensure financial sustainability and resilience of a budget/revenue that exceeds $800M per annum.

You will be responsible for supporting the CFO and Executive Leadership Team by implementing and embedding group financial planning and analysis services to support the achievement of LWB’s Strategy. You will leverage technology and establish the data and reporting systems to drive transparency and ownership of financials, while providing business leaders with timely financial insight that supports data-driven decision-making.

Located in either Sydney or Newcastle, we are committed to our employees having access to an office environment while enabling flexible work options.

Qualifications, skills & experience

• Tertiary level qualifications in business, commerce, management or relevant field.
• Qualified and registered Chartered or Certified Practising Accountant.
• Extensive experience in managing the FP&A function in a large and complex organisation.
• Experience with best practice Enterprise Performance Management tools including requirements definition and implementation.
• Experience managing a dispersed team, fostering effective, high-performance focused on achieving team and organisational goals.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing and implementing budgeting and rolling and long-range forecast models across a large organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in managing competing priorities and to deliver high quality outcomes within agreed timeframes.
• Working knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory environment for areas of business responsibility.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to build a shared understanding of, and commitment to the organisation’s Purpose and Values.
• Ability to drive organisation-wide initiatives and strong organisational, planning and prioritising ability.
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including peers, employees, partners, and suppliers to achieve financially responsible outcomes
• Advanced and proven problem solving skills, and ability to think laterally and strategically.
• Excellent written communication skills for the creation of reports, board papers, correspondence and other material.

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

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations.
• Excellent tax benefits & access to monthly rostered days off.
• Work with skilled professionals to enhance the lives of the people we support.

How to Apply

Click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. Should you require a confidential conversation in relation to the position, please contact recruitment@lwb.org.au

Applications close at midnight AEDT  19^th Nov 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.