KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide strategic financial advice and support to the Museum’s Director and Executive, Council and Audit, Finance and Risk Committee (AFRC).
• Deliver key financial processes and outcomes, including annual and long-term internal budgeting and forecasting, major project financial planning and monitoring, annual financial statements and audit, and Commonwealth budgeting and financial reporting requirements.
• Develop strong and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including the Museum’s Director and Executive, Council and AFRC, senior managers, portfolio agency and Department of Finance, external and internal audit providers, cultural and small agency sector peers, and valuers.
• Maintain and deepen a Museum-wide culture of sound financial management and compliance, business acumen, and integrity, transparency and accountability in decision making.
• Leading the Finance business unit is its successful delivery of financial operations and services across the Museum, including supporting the work and objectives of each business area.

ROLE PURPOSE

Following the historic investment in the National Cultural Institutions (NCIs) in the 2023-24 Federal Budget, and the development of our new 2024-2029 Strategic Plan, the Museum has a unique opportunity to deliver on an ambitious agenda, as one of the country’s foremost cultural institutions. The CFO role is critical in supporting the Museum’s Council, Director and Executive in realising those ambition in a financially dynamic, accountable, and ultimately sustainable, way.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced finance professional, with a proven track record of delivery, to lead and manage a small multidisciplinary team with responsibility for the full range of strategic and day-to-day finance functions. The Finance business unit plays a crucial role in supporting the Museum’s business areas manage and deliver on their objectives, while also maintaining and strengthening the Museum’s financial compliance and statutory reporting functions and frameworks.
The CFO will possess an excellent technical understanding of a finance function in a small agency government setting, with a dynamic and complex operating environment, that balances the competing priorities across both profit and cost centres. The role is accountable for the timely and accurate delivery of budgeting, financial management, treasury, major project financials, cost analysis, external audit and reporting functions.