Complete work tasks as directed to be financially accountable for actions and minimise inappropriate business costs.

Complete work tasks with awareness of financial implications for the farm business and minimise inappropriate business costs.

Monitor the team’s work tasks for efficiencies in activities that minimise inappropriate business costs. Report opportunities for cost reductions.

Model financially responsible behaviours in all work task completion.

Accurately and independently completes all necessary activities for sound financial business management and compliance including invoicing and payment of external parties, accurate financial record keeping, reviewing of budgets, and reporting on financial data.

Monitoring of budgets to ensure alignment of expenditure with forecast.

Create, communicate and evaluate all financial planning for the business, accessing expert support as required, including budgets, accounts management, financial auditing, taxation requirements, financial risk management processes, and corporate governance.

Complete business financial analyses and use outputs for strategic decision making.

Follow direction with on-farm tasks to positively contribute to achieving farm plan goals.

Know of the farm plans and take initiative to positively contribute to achieving business goals.

Understand the farm vision, goals and targets, and enable others to positively contribute to achieving business goals.

Create communicate and evaluate plans for the specific area of dairy farming leading. Contribute ideas for overall farm plan.

Create, communicate and evaluate a strategic farm plan that documents the vision, long term business and personal goals, and actions required to achieve those goals.

Speak out when farm equipment is not supporting work tasks to be safe, effective, and efficient.

Assess own work tasks and the equipment available to support the work activities and make recommendations for improvements as needed.

Assess the team’s farm operations for safety and effectiveness and make recommendations for farm infrastructure improvements.

Collect information and/or data on productivity and safety of farm infrastructure and make recommendations for improvements in farm infrastructure. Promptly act upon an identified hazard with significant risk to maintain the safety of employees at all times.

Acquire emerging new farm infrastructure that strategically aligns with achieving farm business goals and supports safety, productivity and profitability.

Appreciate that a dairy farm is a system where different aspects of farm practice link.

Understand and describe the dairy system of the farm I work on and appreciate how the tasks involved in my daily work activities contribute to the productivity of the system.

Ensure team members are all contributing to efficient system function through accurate completion of tasks as instructed in the standard operating procedures and policies.

In creating, communicating and evaluating individual plans, all dairy business plans are considered. Provide recommendations for entire system based plans through appreciating the connectivity of individual farm component plans.

Set strategy – all operational, financial and strategic plans created, communicated and evaluated considering their interrelation, to bring the dairy system components together for safe, effective and efficient production and achievement of farm business goals.

Positively engage in discussions on estate planning as appropriate and invited.

Contribute ideas for estate planning and positively engage in discussions as appropriate and invited.

Create, communicate and evaluate estate plan.