Finance Data Manager

This is an opportunity for finance and data governance professionals with strong accounting and data management capabilities to work within a small multi-disciplined team of professionals, supporting finance business stakeholders during a period of major system and organisational change. Your key responsibilities will include: Managing and leading a team, including providing clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing performance, delegating responsibility and guiding and developing people. Setting work area priorities, managing workflows, developing strategies and evaluating business outcomes. Influencing and shaping finance data and information policy and strategies, implementing guidance documentation integral to good data management & financial reporting and accounting outcomes. Establishing centralized finance data governance and management practices across complex, large and sensitive data assets within the finance domain. Leading the planning, acquisition, storing, cataloguing, destroying and archiving of finance data across the data lifecycle. Optimising processes, encouraging consistency across business areas, championing data quality and resolving complex data issues. Establishing broad networks to drive informed, comprehensive and effective organizational / domain improvements in financial reporting and accounting outcomes reliant upon quality data. Collaborating with other data professionals, business stakeholders, and IT specialists to drive system and process changes that enable the organisation to realise strategic goals. Coaching and training other data managers, and contribute to developing data management capability including representation and co‑ordination on behalf of finance group at cross‑domain data working groups or forums. Supporting the data components of financial systems projects to improve business processes and overall outcomes. Suitable professional backgrounds for this opportunity includes: Strong experience leading teams undertaking financial systems management (major ERP’s like SAP, SAP HANA etc.) and/or report development e.g. Business intelligence (BI) tools like Cognos, TM1, Power BI etc. Strong experience as a data manager or data analyst governing complex and shared data assets within an enterprise data warehouse. Experience supporting teams in the BI and data analytics space in their undertaking of complex financial modelling leveraging data from core financial systems or finance data warehouses. About our Team The Defence Transformation Strategy identified the need to establish a continuous improvement culture a component of which includes becoming a more data‑informed Defence organisation. Foundational to this will be the ability to establish high quality data providing the right information on the right things at the right time to support decision‑makers. Strategic direction to the organisation on how data is to be managed in a more deliberate and disciplined manner including how information is collected, stored, analysed and applied in the decision making process is being provided through the implementation of a Defence Data Strategy. Key enablers of these strategies include the proposed One Data Defence (1DD) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities, both of which require Defence Groups and Services to begin to catalogue data sets, undertake data remediation and enrichment and implement improved data governance and management practices in support of the deployment of these improved capabilities. Defence has adopted a federated approach to enterprise data governance. A federated data governance model can be described as a ‘hub’ and ‘spoke’ model. For Defence, the central ‘hub’ represents the Data Division under the leadership of the Chief Data Integration Officer (CDIO) and the central ‘spoke’ for Finance Group being the Directorate of Financial Information Management (DFIM). This means that the execution of data governance and management practices are decentralised ensuring flexibility for the Groups and Services accommodating their respective needs. DFIM plays an active role as custodians of the finance data assets. This includes oversight, standardisation and coordination of data governance, establishing foundational data management practices and capabilities, articulating data requirements, facilitating data sharing, improving and maintaining data quality, establishing curated datasets and integrated data warehouses and supporting analytics and business intelligence teams across DFG.DFIM operates a small but evolving team out of Victoria Barracks Melbourne. Our Ideal Candidate You are a capable, flexible problem solver with strong data management, analytical and conceptual skills and are able to operate as part of a multi‑disciplined team. You will be required to identify, anticipate and respond to stakeholders’ needs and expectations to achieve Defence outcomes. You will be accountable to lead a team, set work priorities, communicate effectively, manage workflow and resources whilst working in a dynamic and busy environment. Core competencies we are targeting include: Strategic outlook, strong planner and organiser. Accountable for providing clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing performance, delegating responsibility and guiding and developing people. Demonstrated ability to drive sustainable change by partnering collaboratively across the Defence organisation and externally. Ability to influence with strong written/verbal communication. Collaborative approach with a strong client focus. Demonstrated skills to translate technical information into business guidance, policy documentation and outcomes. Build and sustain stakeholder engagement, including the ability to communicate with influence and negotiate effectively. Influence and motivate team members and actively lead group activities. Strong problem solving and analytical approach with conceptual capabilities and flexible approach. Improvement focus, strong results orientation, and seeks to add value through improving processes and systems. Application Closing Date: Thursday 18 December 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr