Location: Yass, NSW
Job Type: Permanent Full Time
Job Category: Corporate & Community
Closing Date: 8.02.2026
Coordinate Financial Excellence: Join Yass Valley Council as Coordinator, Finance Services
Are you a highly skilled and competent finance professional looking for a role that offers more than just processing transactions? Yass Valley Council is inviting top talent to step into the pivotal role of Coordinator, Finance Services, where your precision, expertise, and leadership will directly impact our community’s financial sustainability and future growth. Join us at a time of significant change, where expert financial management together with pragmatic and strategic thinking is critical to aligning resources with community aspirations and navigating complex fiscal realities.
About Us
Yass Valley Council is a local government organisation with an annual budget of more than $50 million and over 150 staff. We are committed to building and maintaining sustainable communities while retaining the region’s natural beauty, guided by our core values of collaboration, service, sustainability, integrity, and accountability.
The Opportunity: Precision and Leadership
This position is designed for a finance professional who thrives on complexity and demands high standards of accuracy and compliance. You are a brilliant leader and are eager to ensure the organisation achieves its goal of financial sustainability, which is a key focus area identified in our strategic plans.
Your core mandate:
- Strategic Insight: Provide crucial financial advice and analysis to the CFO and managers, enabling informed decision-making across the entire organisation.
- System Leadership: Drive process improvements and system enhancements within the enterprise financial system.
- Audit & Compliance Mastery: Play a central role in both internal and external audit processes, ensuring impeccable compliance with regulatory standards.
- Complex Case Management: Oversee difficult and sensitive inquiries related to debt recovery and rates, requiring high-level communication and negotiation skills.
About You: Experienced and Detail-Focused
We are looking for a professional with a strong working knowledge of financial operational requirements and a minimum of three years of demonstrated experience successfully leading a team.
Essential requirements for this high-impact role:
- Demonstrated Leadership: Minimum of three years' experience successfully leading and managing a team, with a focus on delivering quality financial services.
- Operational Expertise: Extensive working knowledge of all financial operational requirements, including general ledger reconciliation, payroll, accounts payable/receivable, compliance, and reporting.
- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated success leading and managing a team.
- Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of financial principles, accounting standards, budgeting processes, and experience with technology-based finance, rating, and billing systems.
- Problem Solving: A proven ability to use information and analysis to resolve complex issues and manage competing priorities.
Previous working knowledge of local government requirements is highly desirable, although not a dealbreaker!
Why Yass Valley Council?
We offer the opportunity to make a visible contribution to a growing regional area with a strong focus on professional development and career progression within local government finance. The Council has a clear roadmap for financial improvement, and you will be a key part of delivering that strategy.
Salary range starts at $1,672.95 - $1,806.78 per week + 12% superannuation
(Grade 17 in accordance with Council's Salary System and the Local Government State Award)”
Apply Now
If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding leadership role, apply now to drive financial excellence at Yass Valley Council.
Simply upload your resume and a cover letter outlining how you will achieve the key requirements of the role. Answer the pre-employment questions in the online Application Form and you’re done!
For help with your application, contact HR on (02) 6226 9251.
For specific role questions, contact Jason McGuire, Chief Financial Officer on (02) 6226 1477
