Careers

The position  

This key leadership role leads WVA’s enterprise-wide finance business partnering function. You will provide strategic financial and economic advice, challenge thinking, and support leaders to align budgets, forecasts and resources with organisational priorities.

You will provide department-level business planning support, financial performance analysis and decision support.

Responsibilities:

• Set and deliver a consistent enterprise-wide finance business partnering model that serves all departments and enables WVA’s mission and approved priorities
• Establish clear service expectations, decision rights, analytical standards and engagement rhythms without creating additional approval layers beyond agreed delegations
• Provide trusted financial and commercial advice to the Chief of Enterprise Services and senior leaders, making assumptions, choices and implications transparent
• Lead finance partnering support for annual budgets, rolling forecasts and in-year resource decisions across all departments
• Set consistent assumptions, calendars, templates, quality standards and challenge processes in coordination with Financial Control
• Provide timely financial and economic insight that helps department leaders monitor delivery, validate financial benefits, address risks and adjust plans
• Supply authoritative financial actuals, forecasts, financial definitions, economic analysis and decision support to the enterprise planning, scorecard, Business Performance Review and integrated performance management system owned by Strategy & Enterprise Performance
• Lead continuous improvement of partnering, budgeting, forecasting, modelling, financial and management reporting, benefits validation and finance decision-support processes
• Simplify tools, reduce duplication and improve finance data integrity, timeliness, automation and usability in partnership with Financial Control, Technology, Strategy & Enterprise
• Performance and domain owners
• Build financial and commercial capability among leaders and non-finance stakeholders through practical guidance, tools and learning

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for someone with substantial finance leadership experience in a large, complex organisation, including enterprise business partnering and multidisciplinary team leadership.

• Demonstrated success leading budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, supporter

economics, resource-allocation advice, financial benefits validation and management reporting

• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear choices for senior leaders
• Broad knowledge of management accounting, financial control interfaces, financial and management reporting, economic analysis and organisational planning
• Strong understanding of charity, donor and not-for-profit financial obligations, including

relevant ACNC, ACFID, DFAT, fundraising and taxation considerations

• Demonstrated ability to lead process, system, reporting and analytical improvement

across organisational boundaries

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related

discipline.

• CA, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification is strongly preferred.

Working for World Vision means you are making the world better   

It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.   

The Selection Process  

For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date. 

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check.

We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families.  World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector. 

Who we are 

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.  For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us