2026 Budget Service Level Catalogues

 SERVICE AREA – FINANCIAL SERVICES

 Summary

Objective: Provision of financial management, statutory financial compliance and reporting, budgeting and creditor
payment services.

Activities: The activities include provision of financial accounting, treasury and investment services, management
accounting, capital project financial management and asset accounting, and accounts payable services.

 Delivery Framework           Details
 Corporate Plan Theme         Excellence
 Responsibility               Financial Services
 (Branch Level)
 Legislative Responsibility   The Local Government Act 2009
                              Local Government Regulation 2012
                              National Competition Policy 1995
                              Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982
                              Australian Accounting Standards (AASBs)
 Service Delivery Model       Service provided internally through permanent staff resources.
                              Services of external consultants, auditors, software providers and banking
                              institutions engaged to support the delivery of activities.


 Service Inputs                    Details
 (Resources to Deliver Service)
 Physical Assets/Infrastructure    -
 Software and Systems              Financial core system is TechnologyOne ERP, supported by , supported by
                                   banking contracts, systems for automated invoice processing systems,
                                   financial reporting, fees, grant management, full cost pricing modelling
 Budget Cost Centres               Management Finance (1301)
                                   Financial Planning & Business Analysis (1302)
                                   Financial Accounting (1303)
                                   Management & Systems Accounting (1304)
                                   Account Payments (1305)
                                   Treasury (1306)
                                   Grants Funding (1307)
                                   Accounting & Other Clearing (1308)
 FTE                               12.6
 Other Key Metrics                   Number of Ledger Transactions
                                     Operating Expenditure ($M)
                                     Fair Value of Assets ($M)
                                     Capital Expenditure ($M)


 Service Outputs - Performance Measures
 Type                       Measure                         Target                Methodology / Calculation
 Efficiency                 Cost per rateable property      TBC
 Effectiveness              Community Satisfaction          Community             Optimum rating 5
                            Survey                          satisfaction mean     improvement from previous
                            Theme-Managing the Shire        performance rating.   rating
                            Financial Management            2019 3.77
                                                            2021 3.66




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