Health Services Business Partner

**This is for 2 Ongoing Health Services Business Partner Roles**

**About the role**:
The Finance Business Partner (Health Sector) role is an external facing role and responsible for supporting the understanding and delivery of the department's strategic financial investment in Victoria's health system, health service financial sustainability and to be the interface between the Department of Health and health services.

Against the context of increased financial sustainability challenges for Victoria's health services, this position is part of a specialist branch that coordinates the financial performance of health services. The finance Business Partner - Health Sector role is responsible for analysing the funding adequacy for investment decisions and understanding the key drivers across Victorian health services. This role leads the development of advice on overall public health services financial sustainability to inform Hospitals Victoria.

The role reports to the Manager, Health Service Financial Performance and works alongside other business partners in supporting public health services and hospitals. The role will also require close working relationships with internal stakeholders across the Department and Victorian health sector to ensure clear reporting, messaging to government and ensuring tight timelines are adhered to.

**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.

**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
**Knowledge and Skills**

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.

Conceptual and Analytical Skills - 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.

**Personal Qualities**

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 improve practice.

**Qualifications / Specialist Expertise**

Qualification - A bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting / Commerce.

Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia (ICAA) and/or Certified Practising Accountants of Australia (CPA) will be highly regarded.

Specialist Expertise - A high degree of understanding and knowledge of the Victorian budget processes, health system funding, relevant departmental systems and environments.

Exceptional advisory, negotiation, communication and relationship building skills, with demonstrated capacity to work effectively within a politically sensitive context.

Knowledge of the Victorian public hospital operations, and the impact of government funding, policy and reform on operations.

To learn more please click 'Apply' to view the Position Description on the Careers.vic website.

**What we offer**:

- The opportunity to perform meaningful work, making direct contr