Finance Business Partner

**Job no**: 500019

**Work type**: Permanent

**Location**: South Brisbane, Newstead

**Categories**: Finance

**About the role**

Mater Group is seeking a **Finance Business Partner** to join the Business Advisory team. This is a permanent full-time position reporting to the Director of Business Advisory, based at South Brisbane with occasional days at our Newstead office.

This opportunity is for those looking to leverage their existing business partnering expertise, bringing knowledge and experience into a high functioning, multi skilled team and to join a market leader in healthcare.

**Salary: Commensurate with experience plus super plus access to generous salary packaging (up to $15,900)**

**What you’ll be doing**

Reporting to the Director of Business Advisory, this role will help create value through information, insights, and influence on a particular portfolio of the organisation. 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
- Identify and communicate trends and opportunities for improvement and identify financial risk to the business
- Liaise with senior business leaders and executives to review and analyse financial performance and provide financial input to development of interventions related to business performance and budgets
- Coordinate, participate and perform end of month tasks, alongside with Financial Accounting and Enterprise Performance Management team
- 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 (Power BI, TM1, D365 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 have relevant tertiary and/or postgraduate qualifications including professional standing for current membership of a recognised Australian accounting body (CA/CPA).
- Health Specific or complex sector background required
- Experience in business partnering in a large organisation
- Proven ability to contribute to strategic decision making and identifying 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 term
- 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
- Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisation skills
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships with key stakeholders through understanding of their needs and objectives, whilst demonstrating/displaying the corporate values.
- 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**
- Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
- Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
- Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
- Flexible working arrangements,