About the organisation

Muscular Dystrophy Australia (MDA) was founded in 1984 and is the national peak body for people living with neuromuscular disease (NMD) across Australia.

Our Mission is to understand and be responsive to community needs to provide high-impact programs, services and support to both the muscular dystrophy and other related neuromuscular disease communities and to fund innovative research.

MDA represents the needs of more than 40,000 people living with one of 40 different types of NMD, which affect muscle strength. The support and services we provide use evidence-based and consumer-informed approaches to optimise the lived experience of NMD.

With lived experience at the core of everything we do, MDA is working to deliver a brighter today and a more empowered tomorrow to people living with NMD.

The way we work at MDA

We are rebuilding. We are a small national peak body that makes an impact. Our culture is high performance with capacity/resource ratios in balance. We lean-in and are agile, respectful, compassionate and productive and lead with MDA values embedded into ways of working.

This role includes assisting in the preparation of reports for the Board and relevant committees by collaborating with department heads to compile and report financial and operational performance. In addition, this role will support identifying headwinds and opportunities for performance and process improvement across MDA operations, objectives of this role include:

• Finance leadership through managing the accounting & finance operations to deliver accurate and meaningful reporting of financial results.
• Partnering with the Senior leadership team in all financial, data and commercial aspects by capturing, substantiating and analysing operational performance for management and financial reporting.
• Financial support to Senior Leadership team to develop plans that support organisational strategy
• Operational leadership across the organisation to ensure service delivery and fundraising activities
• Risk management and mitigation through maintaining adequate controls across Finance, operations and IT.
• Adherence to all appropriate quality and regulatory standards, including ATO, ACNC and ASIC
• Delivery of research funding grant reporting (incl. government) and acquittals.
• Ensure the organisation operates in an ethical, compliant, transparent and innovative manner.
• Actively engaged in Muscular Dystrophy Australia’s strategic plan
• Streamline and optimise Finance and Operational functions, including payroll and FBT
• Support the development of business growth strategies.

The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, extensive accounting experience including budget and forecast development, exceptional problem-solving skills, be highly organised, and have excellent collaboration skills with people from multiple disciplines.

For a full description, please view the Position Description as attached.