Details: Established in 1990, the ACT Audit Office has served over three decades to provide an independent view of the ACT Public Sector, foster accountability in the public administration of the Territory and promote efficiency and effectiveness of ACT public services.
The role:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Director, Financial Audit with the highest level of personal integrity and excellent accounting, audit, information technology, investigatory, communication and interpersonal skills to join the financial audit team.
As the Senior Director, Financial Audit, you will play a significant and dynamic role to ensure the highest levels of financial management and accountability within the ACT Government. Your work will have a direct impact on community confidence in the delivery of a range of critical services, from Health to Education, from Capital Infrastructure to Social Services by the ACT Public Sector.
You will lead a diverse workforce to produce high quality, impartial, accurate and evidence-based audit reports on financial statements and statements of performance, with recommendations designed to improve the administration and performance of ACT Public Sector agencies.
Being a statutory appointed auditor, you will have the opportunity to focus on delivering quality audit outcomes without the added pressure that comes with working in a more sales-based environment.
The benefits:
The ACT government is seen as a public sector leader in its approach to flexible working, investing in infrastructure to facilitate hybrid working such as state-of-the-art office spaces designed to promote collaborative working.
In addition, the Audit Office seeks to engender a sense of community, embraces diversity, and actively promotes a healthy work/life balance, including the opportunity to work remotely up to 3 days per week. Work structures are negotiated at a team level, with an emphasis placed on finding space to accommodate family and personal commitments to ensure you can bring your best self to the role.
You will also be supported in exploring your own professional development Learning Journey through complex and interesting work and training opportunities. The Audit Office offers a generous studies assistance program to provide you with support to undertake your professional post-graduate qualifications, including reimbursement of course fees and time off to study and attend exams.
Based on your experience and skills, you will be offered a competitive remuneration between $149,351 to $172,246 plus superannuation per annum. Additional benefits include generous leave provisions and payment of up to two professional membership fees. Ideally you will be commencing your new role in May 2026.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
Eligibility/Other requirements:
The key to success in this role will be your combination of strong experience in leading financial audits, highly developed communication skills and excellent human resources management skills. You will also align strongly to, and actively role model to your team, our organisational values of:
* Independence
* Integrity
* Professionalism
* Respect
* Learning and Innovation
You will most likely have tertiary Professional Accounting, Audit, Data Analytics and/or Information Technology qualifications. It would also be ideal if you held post graduate qualifications from one or more of CPA Australia, CA ANZ and CISA.
Notes: All ACT Government employees are required to undergo employment screening. This position is a Position of Trust 1 and therefore, if you are selected, you will have Australian Government Security Vetting Agency Baseline security clearance. If you do not have Baseline security clearance, the Office will undertake an internal security assessment to assess against this criterion, while you await to apply for AGSVA Baseline Security Clearance. If your Baseline security clearance application is not successful, your employment in the role will be terminated.
A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months.
For further information, please visit www.jobs.act.gov.au