Finance and Business Services – Supporting Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Full -time, permanent position
The Full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $111,154 - $124,619 + 17% Superannuation (HEW Level 8)
Based at our vibrant St Lucia campus
About This Opportunity
Known locally as the Senior Management Accountant, the Manager, Finance Partnering, plays a pivotal role in providing expert financial analysis, advice, and support to senior stakeholders. This position helps shape key business decisions through financial planning, forecasting, and performance monitoring. By partnering closely with client leaders, the role ensures the effective management of annual budgets, financial controls, reporting disciplines, and risk management practices. This role is integral to maintaining financial governance and delivering strategic insights that align with client business and service delivery objectives.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Manage the development, alignment, and execution of financial strategies, client service plans, and annual budgets to meet the financial management and reporting needs of client business units.
Participate in financial planning and review sessions with the client executive leadership team to maintain a deep understanding of current issues, emerging trends, and future client requirements.
Lead budgetary control activities for client business units, including expenditure and variance analysis. Provide advice to clients on control mechanisms that promote fiscal accountability, transparency, and financial performance within the client portfolio.
Build and maintain strong working relationships as a trusted financial advisor, ensuring full compliance with University and external regulatory and compliance requirements.
About You
Postgraduate qualifications in accounting, business, commerce or a related field, or progress towards, with considerable experience in accounting, management and/or equivalent combination of relevant extensive professional experience.
Excellent financial management, accounting, and analysis skills, with experience applying financial policy, compliance, and risk frameworks.
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.
Experience working in professional financial advisory and/or service delivery functions in complex stakeholder and policy environments.
Membership of a professional institution (CPA / CA or equivalent).
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:
26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver 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
UQ Study for Staff
On campus childcare options
Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day)
Salary packaging options
In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:
Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.
Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.
Questions?
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Mrs Cherie McGuire (Finance Manager) via [email protected]. For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.
Want to Apply?
All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:
Cover letter summarising how your background aligns to the ‘About You' section
Resume
Please note that you will be asked to add all documents into the one upload box labelled ‘resume', which is step one of the application form.
Other Information
At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion. We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity, LGBTQIA+, cultural and/or linguistic, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with a disability, or age. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected].
If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.
Applications close Sunday 26 January 2025 at 11.00pm AEST (R - 47150).
Applications will be reviewed as received. Candidates may be interviewed prior to the job closing date. We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible. The University of Queensland reserves the right to close this application process early.