Finance Business Partner

**Job no**: 498632

**Work type**: Permanent

**Location**: Newstead

**Categories**: Accounting

**About the role**

Mater Group is currently seeking a **Finance Business Partner** to join the Business Advisory team to support the Mater Health business. This is a permanent full-time position based based at the South Brisbane campus (with occasional days at our Newstead office).

This is an excellent opportunity to bring your knowledge and experience into a high functioning, multi skilled team and to join a market leader in healthcare and a proudly values-based organisation.

**Salary: Commensurate with experience plus super plus access to generous salary packaging**

**What you’ll be doing**

Reporting to the Director Enterprise Performance Management and working under the direction and guidance of the Head of Finance and Operations at the relevant hospital/s, this role will help create value through information, insights and influence on a particular portfolio of the business. You will achieve this by:

- Understand key drivers of the business and how they relate to the financial performance of the business including revenue, volume, and cost drivers of the business (patient / product profitability)
- Identify and communicate trends and opportunities for improvement and identify financial risk to the business
- Liaise with senior business leaders to review and analyse financial performance and provide financial input to development of interventions related to business performance
- Coordinate, participate and perform end of month tasks, alongside with Financial Accounting and Enterprise Performance Management teams
- Attend Branch/Area Leadership Meetings to provide insight and analysis of the financial situation and identify key opportunities for improvement in collaboration with the business managers
- Use tools available (Clinical costing / Power BI etc.) to analyse trends and engage with business on associated financial impact / opportunity
- Work with the business to develop business cases, complete financial modelling and conduct planning activities
- Analyse financial and non-financial information to provide insight into the performance of facilities/departments to identify risk/constraints and enhance decision making
- Support business development activity including the development of new opportunities leading to new growth opportunities/business cases
- Support the development and implementation of finance best practices and work with the business to build financial literacy
- Manage the annual operating budget process for relevant hospitals in conjunction with Head of Finance and Operations and Enterprise Performance Management team
- Support management and development of Assistant Finance Business Partners

***About you**

To be successful in this role you will be passionate about partnering with stakeholders to help them make the best financial decisions. You will also posses:

- Relevant tertiary and/or postgraduate qualifications including professional standing for current membership or eligibility for membership of a recognised Australian accounting body, either the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants or Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, or similar membership
- Health specific or complex sector background required
- Extensive experience in business partnering in a large size complex business
- Proven ability to contribute to strategic decision making and identifying strategic and operational opportunities for improved financial outcomes
- Highly developed interpersonal skills including consultation, facilitation, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills with the proven ability to communicate with a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders and clearly explain complex issues in lay terms
- Leverages the principles of performance measurement including aligning key metrics and monthly reporting with goals and objectives to deliver insights into the value obtained from operational and strategic decision making
- Demonstrated presentation and report writing skills
- Proven ability to meet deadlines and commitments and the ability to anticipate problems and identify solutions
- High level of proficiency using the Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience leveraging ERP (preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365)
- Proven ability to use reporting tools such as TM1 and PowerBI to draw insights and drive decisions

**Why join us?**

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. **#MAKEYOURMATERMOVE**
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