"Finance Partner"

Finance Professional Services - Central

Finance Professional Services - Central

• 1 x full time, continuing position
• Base salary will be in the range $104,616 - $113,920 + 17% Superannuation (HEW Level 7)
• Based at our St Lucia location

About This Opportunity

We are seeking a motivated Finance Partner to join our finance advisory team at the University of Queensland. This role is supporting the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) portfolio responsible for upholding high quality teaching and learning, promoting a culture of excellence across the student experience, and leading initiatives aimed at student success and retention, integration of services for students and quality standards. Reporting to the Manager, Finance Partnering, you'll play a crucial role in delivering sound financial analysis, supporting commentary and advice to senior leaders and stakeholders to inform financial planning, budgeting and forecasting.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing financial advice to chief investigators and leaders. Helping them to make informed decisions regarding cost management and optimal utilisation of funding.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships and acting as a trusted financial advisor, managing the escalation of key client issues that require expertise, input and/or approval.
• Applying financial processes, governance frameworks, and policy controls to ensure ongoing compliance with university and external regulations.
• Facilitating seamless communication between the finance advisory and finance transaction services team. Offering expertise on financial policy matters and enhancing team performance.

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you will have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave/paid primary care leave
• 17% superannuation contributions + 17.5% annual leave loading
• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight
• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
• Career development opportunities –access to exclusive internal-only vacancies and our Study for Staff program
• On campus childcare options
• Affordable parking (from just $6.40 a day)
• Salary packaging options

About You

• Degree qualifications in accounting, business, commerce, or a related field with experience in accounting and/or equivalent combination of relevant extensive training and professional experience
• Strong financial accounting, analysis, and reporting skills, with experience managing and providing project-based accounting services.
• Experience working in professional financial advisory and/or service delivery functions in complex stakeholder and policy environments.
• Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with key stakeholders and clients and apply sound problem solving and communication skills to influence and achieve outcomes.
• Ability to provide strategically aligned operational financial advice and solutions, and partner with clients to achieve desired outcomes and results.
• Progress towards or membership of a professional institution (CPA / CA or equivalent).

Appointment to this role is subject to the successful completion of relevant pre-employment checks, which may include verification of the right to work in Australia, qualifications, criminal history checks. This may also include checks relating to gender-based violence matters or other integrity and conduct requirements.

You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.