Finance Officer
Job No:
TSC1795
Location:
Tweed Heads
Join our Water and Wastewater team and play a key role in driving financial performance across essential community services. As a Finance Officer, you'll provide valuable insights, monitor financial trends, and work closely with operational teams to support informed decision-making and effective cost control.
About the role:
- Partner with the Water and Wastewater Unit Business Accountant to support the financial management of essential community infrastructure and services.
- Analyse financial data, investigate anomalies, and identify opportunities to improve cost control and operational efficiency.
- Develop and maintain reports, processes, and monitoring tools that provide meaningful insights and support informed decision-making.
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders across Council to resolve financial exceptions, improve allocations, and implement corrective actions.
- Provide valuable financial support across operational, capital works, and asset management activities, including identifying and tracking Water and Sewer assets and assisting with routine accounting functions.
What's on offer:
- a permanent full‑time position with opportunities to expand your skills and expertise.
- a base salary ranging from $77,555 per annum with competency-based increments up to $91,053 per annum, plus 12% super
- 70 hour, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - click here for more).
We are seeking:
- A qualified accounting professional with a TAFE accounting qualification or equivalent demonstrated experience in a finance-related role.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interrogate complex financial data, identify trends, and investigate anomalies.
- Experience monitoring income and expenditure, preparing cost reports, and supporting effective financial management outcomes.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience using financial systems such as TechnologyOne Financials and reporting tools such as Crystal Reports (or similar).
- Excellent communication and report-writing skills, with the ability to document processes and procedures for training, compliance, and audit purposes.
- A proactive and collaborative team player who can build effective working relationships and translate broad objectives into practical, results-focused outcomes.
About us:
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Tweed Shire Council is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourages applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in both traditional and non-traditional roles. We provide workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 and 2025 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
Where it's located:
This position is based in Tweed Heads and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
Position closes:
Friday 06 November 2026 at 12 noon sharp (NSW time). Late applications will not be permitted.
Click here to view the Position Description
TIPS for Addressing the Selection Criteria
Click here for more information on the Recruitment Process
Pre-Employment Screening:
Tweed Shire Council conducts pre-employment assessments as part of its recruitment process.
Job offers are not made until screening has been completed. Tweed Shire Council uses third-party providers to undertake:
- Pre-employment medical – some roles require a functional (physical) assessment, and all positions are subject to drug and alcohol screening (a positive test result means the recruitment process ends and your application will not be considered).
- Background screening - verifies that the information you have provided throughout the recruitment process is true and correct. Click here for more information.
Reference Checks are undertaken by the panel. Your 2 referees should ideally be your current and most recent supervisors. Your referees are not contacted unless you’ve been interviewed and are a preferred candidate.
Thinking of relocating?
Eligible applicants can access the Welcome Experience, a free NSW Government service designed to support workers and their families as they move to regional NSW.
How To Apply:
You must use your own email address, and not one used previously by another person that has applied for a position with council.
Once you start your online application, you cannot save and return to it later.
- Have your Resume document ready to go.
- Fill out all questions below. Click 'Next'.
- You'll then be prompted to attach your resume and other documents (if applicable). Click 'Next'.
- Review your application to confirm everything is correct. Click 'Confirm' to submit your application.
If you'd like to COPY and PASTE question fields into a separate Word document to work on over time, please find them listed below:
Selection Criteria:
- Why are you interested in working at Tweed Shire Council, and what excites you most about this particular opportunity?
- Do you hold a relevant accounting qualification and/or experience? Please outline your background and how it has prepared you for this role.
- Describe your experience analysing financial data, monitoring income and expenditure, and preparing reports to support financial decision-making and cost control.
- Tell us about your experience using financial systems and reporting tools, such as TechnologyOne, Crystal Reports, and advanced Excel, to investigate, report on, or improve financial outcomes.
- Provide an example of how you have worked collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve a financial issue, improve a process, or achieve a business outcome. Include any experience documenting procedures or preparing reports.
Desirable:
- If applicable, describe any experience you have identifying or managing financial assets within Property, Plant and Equipment (PP&E).
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Please outline any experience you have communicating financial or costing information to colleagues, stakeholders, or management, including any recommendations you have made.
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