Step into a pivotal executive role at Carers ACT and help shape a financially resilient, well-governed organisation positioned for long-term impact.
Use your financial acumen, strategic leadership and judgement to strengthen financial sustainability, digital capability, and risk and compliance frameworks that enable high-quality services across Carers ACT.
- Lead Carers ACT’s financial strategy, digital enablement and risk and compliance functions within our values-driven organisation delivering positive outcomes for carers across the ACT.
- Use your experience and creativity to help drive the organisations significant growth agenda as a key member of our executive team.
The organisation
Carers ACT is the leading for purpose organisation supporting unpaid carers across the ACT.
Carers ACT delivers a variety of services across both aged care and disability services including respite, group programs, and post-hospital support. Significantly, as the Carer Gateway delivery partner for the ACT region, we connect carers to essential services, emergency support, and practical assistance.
With strong governance, a professional skills-based Board, and passionate and highly engaged staff, we are committed to building a Canberra that truly “cares for carers”.
The role
Carers ACT is seeking an experienced, purpose-driven leader to join our executive team as our first Chief Financial Officer. This new role oversees finance, digital, governance and risk functions during a period of significant organisational growth.
Reporting to the CEO, you will enable strong organisational decision making through financial integrity, clear reporting and modernised financial and risk frameworks.
You will uplift digital capability and ensure governance structures support high quality service delivery in a complex regulatory environment.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the strategic pathway of a purpose driven organisation and position Carers ACT for continued social impact and resilience.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership across finance, IT, governance and enterprise risk functions to support organisational objectives and sustainability. Together these teams comprise 11 staff.
- Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting to support evidence-based decisions across our Aged Care and NDIS services.
- Ensure strong financial governance, controls and compliance with statutory, funding and regulatory requirements including ACNC and government grant acquittals.
- Oversee and develop contemporary IT systems that support service delivery, data integrity and operational efficiency.
- Embed robust risk management and compliance frameworks, including internal controls, policy oversight and assurance processes.
- Provide high-quality strategic advice to the CEO and Board and lead engagement with the Board’s Finance and Risk Committee.
- Lead, develop and inspire high-performing teams, fostering accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Relevant finance qualifications and extensive financial leadership experience, ideally in the community services, aged-care health or disability sectors.
- Proven experience in financial governance, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting in government funded environments.
- Strong understanding of risk management, compliance and regulatory obligations relevant to not-for-profit and human services organisations.
- Experience overseeing IT or digital transformation programs.
- Demonstrated ability to provide financial assurance and trusted advice at the CEO and board level.
- Ability to translate complex financial and risk information into clear, actionable insights for executive and board audiences.
- Hold or able to obtain national police check, working with vulnerable people card (WWVP) and NDIS worker clearances.
Desirable Skills
- CPA or CA qualifications.
- Experience managing philanthropic funding, including reporting and donor compliance requirements.
- Experience working in government funded, aged-care, NDIS or grant-based services environments.
- Understanding of cyber security, data privacy and information governance risks.
Benefits
- For-purpose, passionate and engaged working environment based in Holt, ACT
- Non-profit Salary packaging arrangements
- Reasonable hours and a working environment that values work-life balance and wellbeing.
- Salary: $175,000 per annum commensurate with experience.
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- Please review Carers ACT’s annual reports and financial statements, website and ACNC profile.
- Once you have absorbed this information and completed your own research, if you have specific questions or would like a copy of this role’s Success Profile, please contact us by email, hr@carersact.org.au.
- Your application will include your CV (3 pages max), as well as a one-page cover letter outlining how your skills and experience align to this opportunity and why you are interested in joining Carers ACT. A considered cover letter will be a critical part of your application.
