Nicole Levay is the Executive General Manager – Strategic Accommodation for ACT Policing (ACTP).
This Executive role is the conduit between ACTP and the ACT Government’s Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACS) to implement ACTP’s strategic accommodation framework and Master Accommodation Plan (MAP) which provides the analysis and consideration of ACT Policing’s infrastructure requirements over the next 20 years.
Nicole has had a distinguished career in the AFP for almost 17 years, having held the role of Director of Corporate Services ACTP, where she was responsible for the management of:
- Ministerial, Policy and Performance
- Media and Public Engagement
- Finance and Commercial
- Human Resources
Prior to this, Nicole was the Manager Forensics Capability Program within the AFP’s Specialist Operations portfolio. In this role, Nicole was responsible for delivering a significant program of transformational change within Forensics including leading the design and oversight of the construction of a new world-class AFP Forensics Facility. Under Nicole’s leadership the Program received a public commendation from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works as an exemplary model that other Government Agencies should follow and received commendations throughout the Commonwealth Government’s Gateway Review process.
Nicole joined the AFP in 2007 as a financial specialist within the International Deployment Group. In 2009 Nicole took on the role of the AFP’s Financial Controller where she provided leadership for accounting services and financial management systems across the AFP including the introduction of the new funding stream of Administered Funds and establishing the financial systems to support it.
Nicole has strong skills in financial and business analysis, change management, cultural reform, and a customer service delivery focus, built upon her qualification as a qualified CPA. Prior to joining the AFP Nicole held positions with a number of Chartered Accounting firms specialising in Taxation, Business Advisory services including mergers and acquisitions, and Business Recovery Services which specialised in company insolvencies, liquidations, voluntary administrations and bankruptcy.