Health Service Business Partner

**About the role**:
The Finance Business Partner - Health Services role responsible for understanding the department's strategic financial investment in Victoria's health system, health service financial sustainability and being the interface between the Department of Health, Health Services and the Department of Treasury.
Against the context of increased financial sustainability challenges for Victoria's health services, this position is part of a specialist branch that coordinates the allocation of financial resources across Victoria's health system and actively monitors sector budget expenditure. The Business Partner role is responsible for analysing funding adequacy for investment decisions and understanding the key drivers across the Business Partners allocated portfolio of Health Services. This role will contribute to the development of advice on overall public health services financial sustainability to inform Health Funding, Finance, and Investment and Hospitals and Health Services Divisions.
The role reports directly to the Manager - Financial Performance and Oversight, Budget Strategy and Financial Sustainability and supports the performance leads for public health services and hospitals, community health programs and public aged care services. The role will require close working relationships with senior stakeholders across the department and Victorian health 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**:
Are you
- Able to lead, sustain and influence key relationships internally and externally?
- Able to lead, sustain and influence key relationships internally and externally?
- Recognised for your expertise in understanding complex environments and for your deep understanding of the Victorian health system?

**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
Knowledge and skills
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- Financial / Commercial Acumen: Demonstrated experience in the provision of financial support within complex organisations and ability to provision financial analysis and benchmarking that influences operational performance and outcomes.
- Analytical: Proven capacity to analyse data, prepare recommendations and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.
- Communication: Proven ability to relay complex situations, scenarios and financial concepts to non -financial stakeholders; ability to effectively communicate and understand key processes and messages.
- Stakeholder management: identifies and manages a range of complex and often competing needs; identifies issues in common for one or more stakeholders and uses them to build mutually beneficial partnerships; and finds innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues
- Political Acumen: Politically astute with a sophisticated understanding of government decision making processes and public policy outcomes and high level influencing and persuasion skills. Displays good knowledge of government/organisational structures, functions, objectives and protocols; demonstrates an understanding of issues, expectations and pressures that impact on government and the department.
- Leading change and improvement: makes changes to own practice and prioritises and encourages and supports others to make changes, as required by business needs and priorities.

Personal qualities
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- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; and minimises surprises.
- Decisiveness: takes rational and sound decisions based on a consideration of the facts and alternatives; makes tough decisions, sometimes with incomplete information; evaluates rational and emotional elements of situations; makes quick decisions where required; commits to a definite course of action.
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.
- Creativity and innovation: generates new ideas, draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things, actively influences events and promotes ideas, translates creative ideas into workplace improvements, reflects on experience and is open to new ways to i