POSITION
DESCRIPTION
**Position Title **Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary
**Business Unit** Business Services
**Manager **Chief Executive Officer
**Direct Reports **Corporate Accountant, Global IT Manager and Administration Manager
**Location **Melbourne, Australia
**Role type **1.0 FTE_ _
**Significant relationships** Chairman, Board, CEO and General Managers
- Contribute as a member of the Leadership Team
- Manage external relationships with third party providers, including
Company lawyers, External Auditors, Insurance Broker and Tax
Advisors
Position purpose
This position is central to providing strategic leadership for the organisations corporate and financial
governance.
- Key responsibilities
- Contribute to corporate leadership as a member of the global Leadership Team, responsible for
- setting a positive workplace culture that drives the performance and success of the Institute.
- Manage the Institute's financial and accounting practices and procedures, including cashflow,
investments, payroll and related on-costs, foreign currency, financial delegations, financial analysis,
and audit functions.
- Manage global compliance (including tax, legal, audit, regulatory and insurances) in relation to all
statutory, governance and legislative requirements in the locations where the Institute has
operations.
- Manage and monitor the Institute's risk profile, including review of contracts, business practices and
renewal of corporate insurance policies.
- Lead the global annual business planning process, including setting annual budgets and alignment
of activities to the Institute's strategic plan, and responsible for monitoring and reporting results
against key performance indicators.
- Undertake the role of Company Secretary, responsible for assisting the Board in meeting its
governance obligations, ensuring compliance with the Company Constitution and ASIC corporate
reporting requirements and managing the Institute's Legal Member database.
- Responsible for IT performance, ensuring operational excellence, efficiency and security.
- Lead and develop a high performing Business Services team with a strong focus on quality outputs
- and client satisfaction.
- Other relevant duties.
Skills and experience
Essential
- Experience in a leadership role, ideally a global organisation with a matrix structure
- Demonstrated understanding of governance and company secretariat obligations
- Understanding of commercial contracts and risk management
- CA, CPA and/or relevant tertiary qualification
Desirable
- Experience in the not-for-profit sector
- Background in Member and/or commercial consulting organisation
POSITION
DESCRIPTION
Values
Our Values underpin the way we do things at the Institute and guide us internally in our day-to-day work. The
following Behavioural Competencies align with Our Values with the aim to amplify each aspect and are
essential to ensure the achievement of Our Mission.
**Collaboration** - We work cooperatively and
our teamwork goes beyond organisational
and geographic boundaries to achieve
exceptional results.
**Collective Strength** - You actively
develop and leverage the
Institute's collective strength by
- Honouring and
acknowledging your
colleagues' skills, strengths,
and contributions.
- Building meaningful
relationships on a foundation
of trust, mutual respect,
appreciation and empathy
with colleagues, Members,
clients, and partners.
- Facilitating people and ideas
coming together beyond
hierarchical and
organisational boundaries
through effective
communication, knowledge
sharing, and proactively
seeking input.
- Exhibiting dedication to our
purpose, your role, and what
we can achieve together.
**Accountability** - You hold yourself and
others accountable by
- Taking personal responsibility for
deliverables.
- Keeping a focus on delivering outputs
that are accurate, timely, and of a high
standard.
- Acknowledging ownership and
accountability to promote solutions.
- Identifying areas for improvement
across the Institute and appropriately
providing feedback to those
responsible.
**Quality**:
- We strive for
excellence in all that we
do. We are a trusted,
knowledgeable and
responsive organisation
known for exceptional
advice and service
delivery.
**Integrity** - We hold ourselves to
the highest standards in all we
do. Our actions and
communications are
responsive, ethical and
respectful of diversity.
**Growth Mindset** - You seek
ways to continuously learn and
improve by
- Fostering an environment
open to diverse ways of
thinking and operating.
- Seeking, providing, and
responding to feedback in
a productive and
respectful manner.
- Recognising the limits of
your own experience and
skills and taking proactive
steps to grow them.
- Embracing failures,
challenges, and setbacks
as opportunities for growth
and learning.
- Engaging in honest self
- reflection and actively