Director of Finance, Financial Service

Date: 5 Nov 2025

Location: 50 Flemington Rd, AU

Company: theroyalch

The Hospital:

The Royal Children's Hospital's (RCH) Vision is "A world where all kids thrive".

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children's Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

Job Title: Director of Finance – Financial Services

• RCH offers a supportive, purpose-driven environment where your work contributes directly to our vision — a world where all kids thrive.

• Hub of medical precinct in Parkville, Melbourne

• Parental Leave cover until end August 2026

About the Role

This is a Fixed Term Full Time position to cover Parental Leave end August 2026, at 80 hours per fortnight within the Finance department.

This is a key leadership role in Corporate Services ideal for an experienced senior finance professional who will help progress a performance culture, ensure robust financial stewardship, and engage effectively stakeholders at all levels including Departmental and Audit liaison.

The successful applicant will lead an experienced, capable team with well-established systems and processes already in place. This is a hands-on, continuity-focused role suited to a collaborative leader who values stability, integrity, and clear communication.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role provides leadership and oversight of the hospital's core financial operations, including accounting, treasury, accounts payable and receivable, asset accounting, and financial systems. The focus of this position is to maintain financial governance, compliance, and audit readiness, ensuring the ongoing delivery of accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting.

What you'll achieve:

• Lead the hospital's full suite of financial operations, including general ledger governance, financial accounting, cash management, accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), private revenue, treasury, asset accounting, and financial systems.

• Act as a key advisor to the CFO on financial governance, audit outcomes, and emerging compliance risks, contributing to executive and board-level financial assurance discussions

• Lead a multidisciplinary finance team across accounting, treasury, systems, AP, AR, and revenue operations, fostering capability, accountability, and high performance.

• Ensure a "one finance" culture through working collaboratively across the Finance and Business partnering teams

• Oversee all accounts receivable operations, including private patient billing (e.g. Medicare, compensable, and insurance revenue), ensuring accuracy, audit readiness, and accounting recognition practices.

• Provide strategic oversight of accounts payable operations, including supplier payments, invoice workflows, payment runs, and vendor data governance, ensuring integrity and compliance in supplier master data and payment processes.

Your skills and experience

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• Full professional membership with CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants ANZ (CA ANZ), or a recognised equivalent.

• Demonstrated leadership capability, including managing multidisciplinary finance teams, building capability, and leading through periods of change or system reform.

• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in financial management, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role overseeing core accounting functions, compliance, or financial systems.

• Demonstrated experience in managing end-to-end financial operations within a large, complex organisation.

About the Department

Financial Services team supports the hospital's core financial operations, including general ledger governance, financial accounting, revenue accounting, accounts payable, treasury, financial systems, and fixed asset accounting. The team ensures compliance with Australian Accounting Standards, the Financial Management Act, and Standing Directions, and is responsible for delivering accurate, timely, and audit-ready financial reports.

What we offer:

• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay

• Employee Assistance Program

• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities

Other requirements:

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain

• Valid Working with Children Check

• Compliance with RCHs "Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases" procedure

Application process

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly

For more information about this position please contact please contact Frank Vosnidis .

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children's Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children's Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.

Are you ready to join our team?

Applications close 15 November 2025