Finance Business Partner

**Job no**: 500737

**Work type**: Permanent

**Location**: South Brisbane

**Categories**: Finance, Accounting

**About the role**

Mater’s Finance ministry is going through an exciting change period, and we are searching for a **Finance Business Partner **to join the team. Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner - MPHB & MHB and will see you supporting both MPHB and MHB as your portfolio. It is a permanent and full-time position based at our South Brisbane Campus.

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.

As our new Finance Business Partner (FBP) you will serve as a strategic liaison between the finance function and operational leadership groups, providing expert financial support and guidance to enhance organisational performance and long-term financial sustainability.

**Salary range: $111,403.69 - $119,335 (MCA 6) per hour plus superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900**

**What you’ll be doing**

Typical duties of the roles include:

- Collaborate with divisional and cost centre management to provide financial expertise and guidance on performance reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and funding assessments
- Engage proactively with stakeholders to identify financial management issues and opportunities for improvement
- Prepare accurate and insightful divisional performance reports on a monthly basis
- Participate actively in performance review meetings with divisional and cost centre management
- Support ledger integrity and month-end and year-end closing processes by preparing or reviewing journals, accruals and ledger reviews
- Coordinate divisional budget cycle tasks
- Prepare regular divisional full-year forecasts, identify potential differences compared to annual budget targets, and develop recommendations
- Maintain oversight of divisional funding arrangements, including activity-based funding and service contract obligations
- Ensure sustainable resource allocation planning at the divisional and cost centre levels, align with available funding sources and organisational priorities
- Support the review of contractual agreements and grant proposals to assess financial implications, risks, and compliance requirements
- Ensure that contracts and grant proposals align with organisational objectives, financial policies, and regulatory guidelines
- Support facility/corporate/Ministry capital investment planning and reporting,
- Identify and communicate potential financial risks, opportunities, and requirements associated with contracts and grants to relevant stakeholders
- Collaborate with procurement, project managers, and program coordinators to negotiate favourable terms and conditions
- Proactively identify system and process improvements to drive continuous improvement
- Lead change management initiatives to successfully implement improvements, enhance efficiency, and optimise financial processes

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will have relevant tertiary and/or postgraduate qualifications, we are also looking for someone who has:

- Effective coordination and leadership of management accounting services within a large public health organisation.
- Development, leadership, and mentorship of high-performing teams in line with contemporary human resource management practices.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, consultation, and change management skills.
- Provision of effective advice and recommendations on financial matters within a large health organisation.
- Strategic thinking, analytical skills, and innovation in complex service planning and clinical activity management
- Experience in business partnering in a large organisation
- Proven ability to contribute to strategic decision making and identifying opportunities for improved financial outcomes
- 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
- Current membership of a recognised Australian accounting body (CA/CPA) is desirable

**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