At the NSW Department of Education, we educate and inspire lifelong learners – from early childhood, through schooling to vocational education and training.
- Ongoing Full-Time
- Located in Parramatta with flexible work arrangements available
- Salary: Clerk Grade 9/10 with salary ranging from $133,348 to $146,945 + super and annual leave loading
- Shape the future of financial management through innovation and insight
About the role
As a Senior Management Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in driving the department’s annual budget process and strengthening financial management practices across multiple divisions.
You’ll lead the development and execution of a consistent, top-down budgeting approach—ensuring alignment with the broader finance strategy while enabling divisions to deliver on their financial commitments.
Working closely with Finance and business partnering teams, you will provide strategic oversight, embed governance frameworks, and identify opportunities to uplift financial performance and capability.
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About you
You are a strategic and solutions-focused finance professional with strong management accounting expertise and the ability to navigate complexity with confidence.
You bring:
- Proven experience in budgeting, financial planning and management accounting
- Strong understanding of financial governance, controls and frameworks
- Ability to interpret complex financial information and provide clear, strategic advice
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working across diverse teams
- A proactive mindset, with the ability to identify issues and drive continuous improvement
- Resilience and adaptability to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure environment
- Strong analytical capability, with the ability to use data analysis to identify issues and provide meaningful insights that support informed decision-making
- Strong Excel and systems skills, who can confidently navigate financial models and systems to analyse and interpret information efficiently. Experience using SAP and Prime would be highly regarded, but is not essential.
Key knowledge and experience
- Substantial experience setting management accounting governance and controls, and working with stakeholders to operationalise and implement
- Substantial experience with management accounting and reporting risk identification and providing financial analysis and insights
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people.
Essential requirements of the role
- Degree in accounting or finance discipline and membership of a recognised Australian professional accounting association
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- 35 hour working week
- Competitive salary, salary sacrificing options, employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Department to support your career growth
How to apply
Attach a resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role.
Applicants are encouraged to prepare their application materials independently. The selection panel values authentic and personally written responses that reflect your own experience, insights and alignment with the Department’s values and priorities.
Please refer to the Applicant’s Guide to Applying to assist you with your application.
If you are an existing Education Support Staff (corporate staff) with the NSW Department of Education,
All other applicants please submit your application by clicking ‘Apply Now’.
Note: the selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role. Successful candidates will be required to undertake pre-employment screening for this role which includes a National Criminal History Check.
As a condition of employment, successful candidates not currently employed by the Department must provide a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) clearance number. Renewal is not required after the WWCC expires, as long as you remain in a non–child-related role. Employer obligations only apply while the WWCC is valid.
Candidates must have Australian work rights (citizens, permanent residents, New Zealand citizens or a valid work visa). Ongoing (permanent) roles are open to Australian citizens and permanent residents and New Zealand citizens, while temporary roles welcome applicants with a visa.
Closing date: Sunday, 13 September 2026 at 11:59pm.
We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the
Diversity and Inclusion Team ([email protected]) or visit
NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion.
A recruitment pool may be created through this recruitment process. A recruitment pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months.
