Senior Lead, Finance Optimisation Program

City of Greater Geelong Geelong, VIC Hybrid Posted 1 day ago About the role The Senior Lead, Finance Optimisation Program is responsible for designing, leading, and delivering a transformative program to enhance the City’s core Financial Services functions. Working collaboratively with stakeholders across the organisation, this pivotal role will uplift financial processes, maximise the benefits of Oracle Financials and related system integrations, and build future capability through continuous improvement and training. A key focus will be enabling real‑time financial reporting and data‑driven insights to support informed, strategic decision‑making across the City. Work type: 2 year fixed‑term contract. Classification: SPL $172,375 + pa + super Key responsibilities include: Act as a strategic advisor to the Chief Financial Officer, collaborating with senior leaders and the Digital Information & Technology team to ensure financial optimisation initiatives align with broader digital transformation goals. Provide strategic leadership in optimising the City’s long‑term digital and financial systems investment program, ensuring future readiness and delivering measurable efficiencies that improve community service outcomes. Serve as the key liaison between business units, technical teams, and stakeholders, ensuring the successful delivery of projects and realisation of value. Define and own the product vision and roadmap, collaborating with key stakeholders to prioritise features and initiatives, ensure alignment with strategic objectives, and monitor performance and feedback to drive continuous improvement. Identify and implement opportunities for automation and integration across the City’s finance systems, including Oracle Financials, to drive process efficiencies. Develop and deliver real‑time financial reporting tools and dashboards that support transparency, compliance, and performance monitoring, enabling data‑driven decision‑making across the organisation. Facilitate and lead business requirements workshops, collaborating with key stakeholders to understand the product vision and user needs, and translating these into clear, concise, and actionable business requirements and user stories. About you To be successful in this role, you will have a tertiary qualification in accounting/commerce or significant professional experience in a comparable organisation. Significant professional experience in financial systems administration. Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and practices related to financial management and services. Extensive functional experience with Oracle ERP, particularly financials, reporting, data management, and system integrations. Proven experience leading business change, driving process and technology optimisation initiatives. Skilled in managing relationships with third‑party software vendors, ensuring alignment and value delivery. Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders. Preferred candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check and a Working with Children’s check as part of the recruitment process (funded by the City). If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now Child Safety Responsibilities We are committed to being a child‑safe organisation and have zero‑tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy. Diversity and Inclusion At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience. We support accessibility and encourage discussions about any adjustments or support you may need during the recruitment process. Applications and Enquiries Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position. Enquiries: Jennifer Blunt | Chief Financial Officer Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch. #J-18808-Ljbffr