Role Overview
The Executive Level 1 ICT Project Finance & Commercial Officer is accountable for complex contracting work within an integrated workforce.
This role involves working with legislative frameworks, government decision-making, and Defence's mission and policy requirements. You will be responsible for planning, leading, and managing human and physical resources, exercising people and financial responsibilities to achieve business outcomes.
You will actively manage key stakeholder relationships, identifying stakeholders' expectations and concerns to develop methodologies and practices to achieve outcomes.
About Our Team
We deliver key upgrades, enhancements, and new capability in ICT Security, Cyber Operations, Interoperability, and Military Platform Integration.
We support capability delivery teams with standardisation of business controls, policies, and processes in areas of procurement, finance, and reporting.
Our team is responsible for end-to-end delivery of all new procurement, contract change proposals, financial tracking, end-of-month reports, assistance with purchase orders, budgets, and additional estimates. We also process invoices, verifying deliverables against vendor invoices and maintaining travel register budgets and actual cost reconciliation.
* Managing procurement processes and practices to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory frameworks;
* Ensuring compliance with Government probity related principles;
* Identifying and mitigating procurement, probity, and contract management related risks;
* Preparing procurement, probity, and contracting related deliverables for all phases of procurement activities, including ongoing contract management and approving payments;
* Participating in evaluation, negotiation, and debriefing processes.
Commercial awareness, highly developed interpersonal skills, the ability to work in a team, and knowledge of Commonwealth procurement policies are highly valued.