- Partner directly with the CFO on high-profile business priorities.
- Build influential relationships across leadership teams and the organisation.
- Enjoy purpose and meaningful work supporting local communities.
About the role:
Are you an experienced Executive Assistant who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves being the trusted right-hand support to a senior leader? As the Executive Assistant to our Chief Financial Officer (CFO), you'll play a pivotal role in keeping one of the organisation's key business functions running smoothly. Working at the heart of strategic decision-making, you'll provide high-level executive support, manage competing priorities, coordinate critical communications and build strong relationships across the business. This is an opportunity to work closely with senior leaders, contribute to important initiatives and make a genuine impact through your organisation, professionalism and ability to anticipate what needs to happen next.
Flexibility to travel to our Corporate offices based in Mango Hill and Maroochydore will be required with flexibility to work from home.
In this role, you'll:
- Partner with the CFO and senior leaders to provide proactive, confidential and high-quality executive support in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Be the central point of coordination and communication, managing priorities, stakeholder relationships and the seamless flow of information across the business.
- Lead and coordinate key administrative activities, including board and executive meetings, travel, events, reporting, presentations and business documentation.
- Drive efficiency and support business outcomes by managing projects, improving processes and ensuring important actions, decisions and commitments are delivered on time.
About you:
Our One Unitywater behaviours -
Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:
Must have
- Proven experience providing high-level executive support in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage competing priorities, complex schedules and sensitive information.
- Exceptional organisational, time management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work autonomously and exercise sound judgement.
- Advanced written communication skills, including preparing, reviewing and formatting executive reports, board papers, presentations and business correspondence to a high standard.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and confidently engage with leaders, employees and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated professionalism, discretion and integrity when handling confidential and sensitive matters.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, together with experience using document and records management systems.
- Relevant qualifications or equivalent demonstrated experience in executive support, business administration or a related field, along with a current C Class Driver's Licence.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a C-suite or senior executive leader, ideally within a large or complex organisation.
- Experience coordinating board, committee or executive leadership meetings, including agenda preparation, board paper management, minutes and action tracking.
- Understanding of governance processes, executive reporting requirements and corporate protocols.
- Experience managing business projects, events or special initiatives from coordination through to delivery.
- Exposure to financial administration, budgeting processes or supporting finance leadership teams.
- Experience maintaining intranet content, records management systems or document control processes.
You'll be a trusted partner to the CFO, someone who can anticipate needs, exercise sound judgement and confidently navigate competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You enjoy being at the centre of key business activities, building strong relationships across all levels of the organisation and creating the structure that enables leaders to perform at their best. Highly organised, proactive and solutions-focused, you'll bring a strategic mindset to your work, taking ownership of outcomes, identifying opportunities to improve processes and acting as a trusted advisor on matters requiring discretion, professionalism and attention to detail. If you thrive on influence, collaboration and making a meaningful impact behind the scenes, this is a role where you'll truly add value.
Working at Unitywater:
- Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays. Tell us what this looks like for you!
- Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
- Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, and access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
- Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.
About us:
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
We think a pretty good job starts here.
How to apply:
Apply online following the links, and make sure to upload your up-to-date CV.
We strive to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role. Please feel free to share your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you’re successful we will need you to undergo a few checks…. We know they might not be the fun part, but you will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks, including verification of criminal history, drivers licence and driving history, alcohol and other drug screening.
Applications close:
COB Tuesday 18th August 2026
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at
[email protected]
If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist
[email protected]
Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people.