Executive Director, Health Service Financial

2 weeks ago


Melbourne City Centre, Australia Department of Health Full time

**About the role**:
The Executive Director, Health Service Financial Performance and Capability is responsible for ensuring that health services operate within their financial means, delivering strong financial performance and driving improvements in financial sector-wide capability. Reporting to the Deputy CEO, this role leads the monitoring and analysis of monthly financials, ensuring cost-saving targets are met and addressing any shortfalls with decisive action.
The Executive Director will work closely with CEOs, CFOs, and key health service leaders, providing high-quality financial advice and holding them accountable for their financial performance. The role work closely with senior leaders, ensuring transparency, and intervening where necessary to ensure health services budgets are optimised. With a deep understanding of the health sector, the Executive Director will ensure that all revenue opportunities are maximised and that financial risks are managed effectively.
The Executive Director is also responsible for the uplift in sector capability, developing strategies to improve financial management and advice across the health system. This role will oversee capability-building initiatives, ensuring the department and the sector has the tools, frameworks, and guidance needed to enhance financial performance and resilience in the sector.
**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.
We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.
**How you'll make a difference**:

- Provide high-quality financial advice to health service CEOs, CFOs, and other key stakeholders, holding them accountable for financial performance including challenging and influencing senior leaders to ensure fiscal responsibility and transparency.
- Identify, assess, and manage financial risks across the health services sector to ensure sustainability.
- Engage with the Department of Health, on developing future budget and policy proposals in relation to the operation and performance of Victoria's health system and support the relevant Cabinet Committee with submissions and information.
- Identify and leverage all available revenue opportunities to enhance financial sustainability across health services.
- Effectively represent the department's interests in high-level discussions and negotiations on department-wide project initiatives on behalf of the Secretary with state government departments, health services, other jurisdictions, service providers and within the department.
- Develop and implement strategies to uplift financial management and capability across the health sector.
- Establish accurate and timely reporting to government on the financial performance of health services, including year to date and forecasting, and utilise best practice performance monitoring methodology to ensure health services are accountable for operating within their budget allocations.
- Intervene decisively where necessary to enforce fiscal discipline and ensure health services remain financially viable.
- Provide strong leadership and effective oversight to ensure that activities are strategically coordinated to identify and evaluate new and emerging risks, opportunities, patterns, and trends in accordance with Ministerial and government directions.
- Make operational and strategic decisions, based on cumulative knowledge and extensive expertise, that impact across the department, ensuring integration toward the purpose of financial sustainability with a medium to long term impact horizon.
- Actively model the department's vision and values, demonstrating collaborative relationships, appropriate and effective governance, responsive leadership and accountability, community focus, and developing our workforce.

**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:

- An appropriate tertiary qualification in accounting.
- Demonstrated ability to drive the uplift in financial capability through utilising influence and coordination levels that require a cross-department and sector collaborative effort.
- A deep understanding of both the health sector and financial processes.
- Has led or made a significant contribution to major change initiatives and driving continuous improvement within a large and complex organisation.

To learn more please click ‘Apply' to view the Position Description on the Careers.vic website.
**What we offer**:

- The opportunity to perform meaningful work, making direct contributions toward enabling Victorians to be the healthiest people in the world.
- A wide range of growth and development opportunities within the department and wider Victorian Publ



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