Senior Management Accountant

Employment Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 38 hours per week

Salary: $100K - $110K

Location: Richmond - Head office

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Where there's life, there's Mercy.

Where there's care, there's You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we're on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

The Senior Management Accountant is responsible for providing business reporting, value add business partnering and accounting / financial services and business support functions to Mercy Home Care. The role will assist the Finance Manager Home Care (FMHC) in ensuring all controls, business / financial processes and procedures are in place and accordance with Mercy Health Group Finance Policies / Procedures.

• Ensuring month end close / year end & other statutory reporting happens in a timely, accurate, well understood and compliant manner.

• Development of annual budgets for relevant Home Care regions, including presentation at Regional Management meetings as required.

• Preparing the Home Care quarterly/annual financial reports and acquittals in an accurate and timely manner. 

• Preparation of regular and ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis to support operational management and performance improvement.

• Assist in ensure the continued development and constant review of financial & operational reporting across all levels of Home Care is timely, accurate and informative & fit for purpose for the selected audience.

• Assist in the preparation of business cases, tender submissions and financial models for Home Care facilities/services as required.

• Actioning annual pricing changes for Mercy Home Care revenue streams

• Ensuring that knowledge of the legislation is up to date, current, included Provision of quality business management support to the relevant operational managers.

• Provide leadership and support for direct reports.

What you'll bring 

It takes a special kind of person to work in healthcare or community services. If you are genuinely interested in helping others, then you'll find you can build something here and find your place in a team of 10,000 hearts.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with a varied group of stakeholders.

• Not less than 5 years' experience in an accounts or finance role with a proven ability to develop and meet operational and budgetary objectives with a positive 'can-do' approach. 

• Strong financial analysis and reporting skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and provide actionable insights.

• Some management experience would be seen as desirable.

• Strong written and verbal communication with an ability to engage with executives, management and staff through consultation processes and demonstrated skills and sound judgment.

• A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective patient care and management.

• Great attention to details

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture. 

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.