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Why work at AFSA?
AFSA offers many benefits to our people; find out more below.
Flexibility
- Our Flexible Working Arrangements policy has an 'if not, why not?' approach and remote working and geographically-dispersed teams are built into our culture.
- flexible and innovative work options to help our people balance their personal and work commitments including flexible working hours, part-time arrangements and job sharing flex time for APS Level 1 – 6 staff, or time off in lieu for Executive Level staff.
- no mandatory caps on the number of days our staff can request to work from home.
Innovative, challenging work environment
- a variety of challenging and interesting work
- a friendly and diverse work environment where staff are encouraged to have their say and contribute to decision making.
Conditions and benefits
We offer a broad range of employment conditions and benefits that provide choice, flexibility and help you maintain a balanced lifestyle. These are outlined in our Enterprise Agreement, and include:
- competitive rates of pay, with annual increases (locked in to 2026) and advancement through pay points at each classification level, and access to flexible salary packaging options.
- 4% employer contribution to superannuation
- flexible working arrangements, underpinned by an ‘if not, why not’ approach and commitment to make genuine attempts to establish mutually beneficial arrangements. Options include flexible working hours, work from home, compressed hours, job sharing, flex time for APS1-6 staff and time off in lieu for Executive Level staff.
- paid leave during the the Christmas and New year shutdown
- extensive, generous leave entitlements, including:
- annual leave (20 days per year) and personal or carer’s leave (18 days per year). New to the Australian Public Service? You may be credited with 18 days personal/carer’s leave on commencement with AFSA.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave if you’re a primary caregiver; 8 weeks if you’re a secondary caregiver, increasing to 18 weeks by 2026-27
- cultural leave – 6 days paid leave over 2 years for First Nations employees, one day per year for NAIDOC week activities, and 3 days paid leave for other employees for attending significant religious or cultural obligations
- opportunity to purchase extra leave per year, access sabbatical leave, leave for employees affected by
AFSA enterprise agreement
Career & professional development
AFSA, as part of the Australian Public Service (APS) offers opportunities to undertake a broad range of interesting and challenging work while contributing to the community.
Some of the support you can expect at AFSA:
- a range of supported learning and development opportunities
- continuing professional development for staff who are required to hold or maintain a qualification or registration
- payment of professional membership to CPA or ICA, or any other professional association that is essential for your job.
- access to financial assistance (up to $7,500 per year) and study leave for further study.
Health and wellbeing
Our people are our greatest investment so our wellbeing initiatives focus on supporting both physical and mental health. This includes:
- prioritising appropriate workplace behaviour, with a zero-tolerance approach to harassment, discrimination and workplace bullying
- a strategic approach to psychological safety and support, through our Mental Health Framework
- a focus on physical and psychological wellbeing, through holistic and evidence-based support
- access to Employee Assistance Program services for free confidential counselling and wellbeing support services, to help you and your family members with work or personal issues
- Free flu (influenza) vaccinations
- Supporting employees to donate blood during work hours, without taking leave.
Diversity and inclusion
AFSA is committed to being a workplace that reflects the community we serve.
We recognise that diversity brings a range of experiences, perspectives, and ideas to our workplace. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture that drives performance, innovation and productivity, where our people feel safe, supported and valued.
We encourage everyone to freely be themselves without fear of discrimination or judgement about their ethnicity, age, religion, sexuality or disability status.
We actively celebrate and support the diversity of our people though an annual program of events.
We also encourage active participation in our Diversity Networks to help continue to improve our workplace and to deliver on our strategies and action plans.
Ready to apply?
If this sounds like the place for you, find our current vacancies at AFSA.
Employee conduct
Code of conduct breaches
We are committed to the highest levels of integrity and professionalism. Under the Public Service Act 1999, we have specific procedures that help to determine breaches of the Australian Public Service (APS) Code of Conduct. They also set out possible sanctions that may apply to an APS employee at the Australian Financial Security Authority, or a former employee during the time of the suspected misconduct.
These procedures are publicly available on our website, as required by section 15(7) of the Act.
Read the Procedures for determining breaches of the Code of Conduct and for determining sanctions.