Head of Financial Services

Working for Water Corporation means you'll be part of an essential workforce on a very important mission - to secure Western Australia’s most precious resource in the face of climate change. Water Corporation is the principal supplier of water, wastewater, drainage and bulk irrigation to homes, businesses, and farms. We manage a large and diverse $48 billion asset base that extends across Western Australia. Our long-standing commitment to sustainable water services makes WA a great place to live and invest.

You'll get to work flexibly alongside innovators, creators, thinkers, and doers to make a meaningful difference to lives all over WA. 

A role at Water Corporation can unlock the door to ongoing long term career development opportunities; we also support training and development, flexible work arrangements, health and lifestyle programs and generous company benefits.

About the role:

Are you a visionary financial leader with a passion for sustainability and strategic impact? We are seeking a dynamic Head of Financial Services to lead our Financial Services team. Reporting to the CFO, this permanent position will be responsible for the development of budget and price submissions to Government, statutory financial reporting, corporate finance, ensuring the Corporation meets financial requirements through driving efficiency and improving productivity. 

Along with providing support to the Board, Executive, General Managers, this position is the key stakeholder manager for the Department of Treasury, Office of the Auditor General and Western Australian Treasury Corporation. You will champion a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and customer-focused financial services.

What the role will involve:

• Drive financial, operational, and organizational performance across Business Units by delivering insights, identifying opportunities, and enabling high-impact decision-making.
• Lead a team of decentralised Strategic Finance Managers embedded across the business, delivering budgeting, forecasting, reporting, treasury management, commercial analysis, and decision support to General Managers and their leadership teams.
• Ensure that financial systems are robust, compliant and support current activities and future growth.
• Ensure the annual financial accounts are completed in line with Accounting Standards, Government requirements, Ministerial expectations and within the timelines required by the Office of the Auditor General.
• Communicate, facilitate, and influence decision making in the areas of holistic strategic planning process, financial strategy formation including funding sources and pricing, and monitoring, business planning and performance reporting.
• As a member of the Corporation’s Senior Management Team, actively contribute to the development and execution of the sustainable financial strategy, setting of performance measures, design, and achievement of key business objectives. 

Key skills and experience:

Your background and wide-ranging grasp of financial management, modelling, pricing, and forecasting gives you the insights to continually improve ways of working and find better outcomes for customers.

You are a strategy and performance leader at heart, you’ll have a strong track record in delivering results and committed to developing talent and fostering a positive culture. Every fibre of you ensures your high–performing teams assess change, plan effective action, and deliver against their business objectives and plans.     

You’ll provide influential and strategic leadership, both internally and externally. You believe your extensive experience and proven achievement of leading, developing and implementing is second to none.

It’ll be your enthusiasm and commitment to a vision of cultural improvements towards value-based behaviours and continuous improvement that will pave your route to success in this role.

Ready to thrive as you shape WA’s water future? Apply today

If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role. 

 Applications close 25th May 2025.

As part of the recruitment process you will be required to complete Pre-Employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.  

We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date. 

Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace:

Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.

We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment.

Applicants with disability who require adjustments, or alternative methods of communication in the recruitment process, can contact a Recruitment Officer at recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 9420 2000.

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website