Finance Business Partner

**About the role**

Mercy Community Services are on the search for an experienced **Finance Business Partner** to join our team on a **Permanent Full-Time** basis. This role will be based at our **Nudgee** or **Rockhampton** corporate office.
- The primary purpose of this role is to provide strategic financial management and operational decision support. This includes delivering accurate and insightful management accounts, budgeting and forecasting, performing detailed variance analysis to guide strategic planning, enhancing and streamlining financial accounting processes, supporting the planning and implementation of financial systems, and leading process improvements to optimise business outcomes and ensure compliance with statutory obligations._

**Salary commensurate with experience plus superannuation plus generous salary packaging available**

This role entails but not limited to
- Deliver monthly management reports. Monitor business performance against KPI's and providing guidance and support to key stakeholders on focus areas to improve performance.
- Assisting with the preparation of the monthly Board Report.
- Partnering with key stakeholders within finance and operations to obtain insights for variance analysis and reforecasting.
- Leading the annual budget process in collaboration with the other Finance Business Partners and relevant stakeholders.
- Completion of key Balance Sheet reconciliations adhering to the Finance team month end timetable.
- Support year-end audit procedures and address auditor queries.
- Maintain accurate accounting documentation to meet audit requirements.
- Ad hoc analysis and support to key stakeholders to assist with making business decisions.
- Preparation and submission of quarterly and annual financial reporting and grant acquittals (such as the Annual/Quarterly Financial Report for Residential aged care service providers).
- Assistance with ad hoc audits and reviews (such as prudential audits).
- Prepare benchmark and KPI reporting. Assist with scoping/ maintaining Power BI Dashboards for self-service.
- Participate in the continuous improvement in finance processes.
- Ad hoc tasks as required by the Finance Manager or Head of Finance.

**About you**

As the successful applicant, you will possess:

- CPA / CA qualification
- Tertiary degree in accounting or other finance related field
- Demonstrated experience of at least 3 years in accounting or finance related field

**Why Mercy Community**

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families and young people, people living with a disability and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.

Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

- Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
- Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need - saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
- Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
- Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
- Employee referral bonus incentive
- Cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.
- Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant._