Financial Accountant

Location: Parramatta

Your role

What You’ll Do

• Review, maintain and manage accounting and financial information to support financial management, reporting and compliance
• Support end-to-end procure-to-pay processes, including finance issue resolution across purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, payments, vendor data, and related transactional controls.
• Monitor and follow up payment processing, approval workflows, aged items, and transactional exceptions to support timely payment outcomes and service delivery.
• Support compliance with financial delegations, procurement requirements, the Building and Construction Industry Security fo Payment Act 1999 (NSW), and other relevant government financial policies and obligations.
• Work with stakeholders and shared service teams to resolve payment backlogs, approval issues, accrual-related matters, and other operational finance risks. Undertake financial analysis and provide advice on critical issues and risks impacting financial reporting, operational accounting, and related business processes.
• Support month-end and financial reporting activities, including analysis, reconciliations, review of balances, and reporting insights.
• Support the review, development and continuous improvements of finance systems, controls, and reporting processes
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships to support timely, accurate, and compliant financial outcomes. ensure compliance with government policy, accounting standards, delegations, internal controls and statutory requirements

What We’re Looking For

• Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Business, Commerce or related discipline, or demonstrated equivalent experience;
• Current membership of an Accounting body - CPA, CA or equivalent;
• Experience in financial accounting and operational finance within a complex organisation, including reporting, reconciliations, controls , and transactional issue resolution;
• Experience working across procure-to-pay activities, such as purchase requisitions, purchase orders, payments, accruals or related compliance and governance processes;
• Experience in SAP or other ERP systems, with strong Excel capability and confidence working with financial data, KPI reporting, reconciliations, and exception analysis;
• Experience identifying and resolving finance issues relating to payment processing, workflow backlogs, controls, compliance, or transactional data;
• Excellent communication (both written & verbal), with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders and shared service teams.;
• Sound knowledge of Australian Accounting Standards, financial controls and governance requirements;
• Experience in shared service, transactional governance, capital/property-related finance, or Security of Payment environments will be well regarded.
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What We Offer

• We offer a variety of benefits, including:
• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
• Want more information?
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• We do work that really matters
• Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference.
• We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities.
• We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage.
• It’s work that really matters.
• Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!
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Requirements

• Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the below targeted question (maximum 1 page) below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:
• Targeted Question: In 500 words or less, describe your experience in managing Accounts Payable compliance and governance. How have you ensured adherence to financial policies, procurement requirements, delegations limits, and internal controls while maintaining efficient payment processing? Include an example of how you identified and addressed a non-compliance issue.
• Applications close
• Friday 10th July 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.
• Got a question?
• For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Jim Li on 02 8753 8060 or at Jim.Li@homes.nsw.gov.au
• If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Jodie McGlinn on 02 8688 7254 or via jodie.mcglinn@dcj.nsw.gov.au
• Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.
• Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
• We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds.
• This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
• To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

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