Finance Data Officer

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: Supporting work area priorities, managing workflows, contributing to strategies and evaluating business outcomes. Understanding finance data and information policy and strategies, drafting guidance documentation integral to good data management and financial reporting and accounting outcomes. Managing and supporting centralised data management practices and undertaking data management tasks as directed by supervisors within the finance domain. Assisting with planning, acquisition, storing, cataloguing, destroying and archiving of finance data across the data lifecycle. Working within the team and utilising processes to support consistent data quality and resolve data issues. Contributing to develop data management capability, including learning activities and participation at cross-domain data working groups and 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. 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 data management, analytical and conceptual skills able to operate independently and as part of a multi-disciplined team. You will be required to respond to stakeholders’ needs and expectations to achieve Defence outcomes. You will be accountable to work within a team, provide leadership, achieve against work priorities, communicate effectively, and manage your allocated work workflows and resources whilst working in a dynamic and busy environment. Core competencies we are targeting include: Operating within an integrated team with an inclusive style. Adherence to performance and behavioural standards, ownership of delegated responsibility and guiding and supporting people. Demonstrated ability to support sustainable change partnering collaboratively across an organisation and externally. Ability to influence with written/verbal communication. Collaborative approach with a client focus. Ability to translate technical information into business guidance, policy documentation and outcomes. Sustains stakeholder engagement, including the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively. Motivating team members and actively contribute to group activities. 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 Working in Defence as a public servant is more than a job, it is an opportunity to be part of a diverse, integrated team of Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Australian Public Service (APS) doing some of Australia’s most important work. #J-18808-Ljbffr