Finance Business Partner

Full time role located at Parkside
- Competitive remuneration and generous tax-free salary packaging options
- Join an established NFP with strong values, a community focus, and a great culture

A fantastic opportunity exists if you are looking for a challenging role within a growing organisation that provides crucial services to our community. This position presents you with the opportunity to use your collaborative nature to work in true partnership with various stakeholders.

**The role**

In this hands-on role, you will be met with exciting challenges and opportunities to deliver accurate insights to business leaders.

You will be responsible for building strong business relationships via high quality outputs and effective stakeholder management, along with the provision of insight to help the business make informed decisions and take appropriate/ timely actions.

**What it’s like at ECH**
- We’re proud of what we do, we’re proud of how we work together and we’re proud of the impact that ECH has on people’s lives.
- We’re future focused. We don’t stay still. We are always in search of new ways to improve the lives of older South Australians.
- Our people drive our success and how we work together is as important as what we deliver.
- Diversity is in our DNA. We seek out and celebrate diversity in all its forms and tap into the richness of ideas, experiences and perspectives that it brings.
- We grow our people. Everyone has the opportunity to grow, develop and build their career with ECH.
- At ECH we are integrating work and life. We are embracing technology and new ways of working which support a new level of flexibility for our people.
- Whether it be face-to-face, on-the-job or online, we love learning because we know it makes us better.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Establishing strong relationships with stakeholders across relevant business areas (primarily leadership), with a solid understanding of their strategic objectives, business operations and key drivers of performance.
- Planning, budgeting, and forecasting for various stakeholders throughout the business.
- Educate and guide your partnered Portfolio to develop improved financial literacy
- Work with other Finance team members to improve the quality of solutions and service provided to the business, with a focus on continuous process improvement
- Preparation of monthly reporting, financial analysis and developing recommendations for business to close any performance gap.
- The provision of complex financial and accounting policy advice to the business, including the analysis presentation of financial data and the preparation of briefing papers for Executive and Board.
- Preparing ad hoc analysis and modelling to support decision making.
- Project support and financial modelling of financial implications of transition to Support at Home.

**Click here for a copy of the Position Description**

**Who we’re looking for**

Someone who has:

- A minimum of 5 years of professional work experience in a Finance or Accounting function, with a CA or CPA qualification.
- Has exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Outstanding influencing and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to adopt a business partnering model, developing relationships at Executive and Senior Manager level.
- Strong analytical and financial modelling capability with high attention to detail
- The ability to work cross functionally and deliver projects as part of a team.
- A positive attitude and is keen to learn.
- Natural curiosity, lateral thinking, and ability to undertake complex problem solving.
- A proactive approach with the ability to work on conflicting priorities at the same time.

But also someone who:

- Is kind, even if they’re a bit stressed out
- Likes what we do - caring for people in the community
- Is dynamic and energetic
- Is flexible and adaptable
- Loves diversity
- Will contribute their ideas and hard work to make ECH better every day

**You will need**
- COVID-19 vaccination, including booster (if eligible)
- High level IT literacy, including excel
- Significant experience with accounting systems

**It’d also be helpful if you had**:

- A **current **Police Check or DCSI (If you don’t, that’s ok, we can help with this)
- Experience and/or knowledge of home care packages
- Significant experience in similar roles, preferably in the aged care sector
- Experience with Power BI
- Solid knowledge of ERP systems

**More about ECH**

ECH is a not-for-profit organisation in the Health Care Sector. This means that you can salary package up to $18,549 per annum to reduce your tax. We also offer a range of perks through our Employee Benefits Program (eg. discounted gym memberships).

You will be provided with full training and support including all equipment that is required to succeed in this role.

If you need more reasons to want to join ECH, have a look through our website to see the amazing ways in which we support