Chief Financial Officer

Full-Time Position | Based in Castle Hill, Sydney

• Hybrid working environment with flexible hours
• Key Leadership role with global impact

Why Open Doors?

Our team at Open Doors is united in our love for Jesus Christ and His Commission. When working at Open Doors, you will get the chance to strengthen the faith of Christians all over the world. You will honour and uplift our suffering brothers and sisters by ensuring their stories are shared with Christians across Australia and New Zealand.

We asked our people their thoughts on working with Open Doors – here is what they had to say:

• “Working for Open Doors means being challenged and encouraged in your faith every day! It’s a privilege to be in a job that helps strengthen the global body of Christ.”
• “Seeing and hearing real stories of persecution has forced me to see my walk with Christ in a new way.”
• “Exclusive experiences to travel and meet with persecuted believers, learning invaluable lessons along the way.”

Working with us also provides the opportunity to be a part of regular team devotions, access to Christian counselling and mentoring as well as coming together for bi-annual team days for fellowship, prayer, and worship.

Our Impact

In 2020, our work at Open Doors helped almost 8 million persecuted Christians around the world through Bibles, training and practical support.

As a growing and respected ministry, supporting persecuted Christians in more than 70 countries, we’re excited to bring on someone who shares our vision and passion to help Australian and New Zealand Christians care for the body of Christ.

About the Role

With a vision to double our impact, the CFO role will help to equip and enable the ministry to achieve this vision. Working closely with the CEO and other executive team members, the CFO will be responsible for leading the financial management, project management and business services of Open Doors.

In the role you will:

• Closely partner with CEO and Executive team to plan and deliver our strategic plan to achieve our vision and goals.

• Lead team of professional staff delivering accounting and financial services across the organisation.

• Develop and oversee innovative financial systems, processes, and procedures to ensure appropriate levels of reporting, controls, and governance.

• Ensure potential and actual business risks are identified and that mitigation strategies to respond to and manage these are put in place.

• Provide financial modelling, reporting, analysing, and interpreting financial data both accurately and strategically.

• Develop strong relationships with strategic partners including banks, auditors and Open Doors International.

About you

If this is the right role for you, your skills and qualifications may include:

• Member of CPA Australia or ICANZ and at least 5 years of experience at a management level

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal with a wide cross-section of people

• Strategic and Operational leadership experience

• Working understanding of Xero accounting system

• Salesforce software experience preferred

• Strong financial analysis and budgeting skills

• Experience working in a customer service environment

• Proven track record of resource management

• Excellent written and oral communications skills

• Demonstrated experience as a proactive and team-focused leader

• Understanding of the Not-for-Profit sector and its governance requirements

Join Us

If you share our passion to make a difference for the most important issues in our world today, we would love to hear from you!

To apply, please submit your brief resume (max. 3 pages) and cover letter addressing your fit for this role to peopleandculture@od.org.au. 

Applications to be received by close of business on Wednesday 29th June 2022.