Associate Director Finance - Oxfam Australia

• Lead Oxfam Australia's finance function, providing strategic financial leadership that enables lasting global impact and organisational sustainability.
• Partner with the Executive Leadership Team, influencing major strategic decisions across one of Australia's leading international development organisations.
• Full-time opportunity based in Melbourne with hybrid working, flexible work arrangements and an exceptional values-driven culture.

The Impact of the Organisation
At Oxfam Australia, we believe all lives are equal and no-one should live in poverty. Oxfam Australia is part of Oxfam International, a global confederation working with partners and local communities in 76 countries to tackle the inequalities that keep people in poverty.

Oxfam Australia works across humanitarian response, long-term development, gender justice, First Peoples’ justice, climate justice and economic inequality, while advocating for systemic change at national and international levels.

This is an opportunity to join an organisation where financial leadership directly contributes to creating a more equal and sustainable world.

The Impact of the Role
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Associate Director Finance is a pivotal senior leadership role responsible for providing strategic financial leadership across Oxfam Australia.

As a trusted adviser to the Executive Leadership Team, you will lead the organisation's finance function while ensuring robust financial management, governance and compliance. You'll partner with leaders across the organisation to support strategic planning, strengthen financial capability and provide the insights that enable confident, informed decision making.

Leading a capable finance team, you'll oversee financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, reporting, risk management and financial systems, while supporting the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee and Board. This is a unique opportunity to influence the financial sustainability and future direction of one of Australia's leading international development organisations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic financial leadership across Oxfam Australia, partnering closely with the COO, CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary finance team, creating a culture of psychological safety, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Deliver robust financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and long term financial modelling that supports organisational strategy.
• Lead treasury management, cash flow forecasting, investments, foreign exchange oversight and working capital management.
• Ensure high quality financial reporting, strong internal controls, statutory compliance and audit readiness.
• Provide financial oversight across diverse funding streams including philanthropy, government grants, institutional funding and international programs.
• Lead finance support for the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee (FRAC) and contribute to Board reporting.
• Drive improvements across finance systems, procurement, reporting frameworks and organisational financial capability.
• Partner with leaders across the organisation to provide commercial advice that supports informed, sustainable decision making.

About You
You are an experienced senior finance leader who combines strong technical capability with exceptional leadership and relationship management skills.

You enjoy operating at both strategic and operational levels, comfortably moving between Board reporting, long term financial planning and partnering with your team through complex budgeting or financial management challenges. You lead with humility, empathy and emotional intelligence, building trust quickly while creating high performing, engaged teams.

You'll also bring:

• CA or CPA qualified with a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related discipline.
• Significant senior financial leadership experience within a complex organisation, ideally managing large scale annual budgets.
• Strong expertise across financial reporting, governance, treasury, risk management, budgeting and strategic financial planning.
• Experience presenting to committees or executive leadership teams and /or Boards.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Executive Leadership Teams and Boards, providing strategic financial advice to inform organisational decision-making.
• A collaborative leadership style with proven experience coaching, developing and leading multidisciplinary finance teams.
• The confidence to provide constructive challenge while building trusted relationships across a broad stakeholder group.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to translate complex financial information into practical organisational decisions.
• Alignment with Oxfam Australia's purpose, values and commitment to equity, inclusion and accountability. 

What Oxfam Australia can offer you

• The opportunity to use your expertise to help drive meaningful change and social impact globally.
• Superior leave benefits and access to generous not-for-profit salary packaging benefits.
• Flexible working arrangements that support wellbeing and work/life commitments.
• Superannuation matching.
• A values-driven culture grounded in Equality, Empowerment, Solidarity, Inclusiveness, Accountability and Courage.

Oxfam Australia is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. Oxfam Australia is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through its Codes of Conduct and safeguarding policies.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are core to who we are. We actively seek to create a workplace that reflects the communities we are a part of, where everyone feels safe, respected and able to thrive. 

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, and LGBTQIA+ communities. 

We’re committed to making our recruitment process inclusive - please let us know if you need adjustments at any stage.
  
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, with conversations progressing with suitable candidates throughout the recruitment process. Interviews may commence prior to the closing date, so we encourage early applications.
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If you are a strategic finance leader seeking an opportunity to combine commercial excellence with meaningful purpose, we would love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Chloe Barton at *****@impactadvising.com.au or 0426 161 ***.