Senior Finance Business Partner

• Role title: Senior Finance Business Partner

• Role type: Maximum Term Full-Time (12 months contract)

• Role grade: Health Services Manager Level 3

• Department and location:  Finance, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst

• Salary: $127,150.00 - $144,444.00 + super

Better and fairer care.  Always.

We are St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services. 

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs. 

About the role

• Partner closely with hospital departments and external stakeholders to understand their needs, deliver financial insights, and offer innovative solutions that drive performance under complex conditions.

• Deliver expert financial analysis and commercial advice, including the review of business cases, ROI assessments, and month-end reporting, to support critical investment and strategic decisions.

• Lead performance reporting and management insights, identifying key trends and risks while helping senior leaders execute strategy and achieve operational excellence.

• Coach internal stakeholders and mentor finance analysts, enhancing financial capability, supporting continuous development, and promoting best practices in financial planning and business intelligence.

• Stay ahead of healthcare funding reforms and government regulations, ensuring finance practices remain compliant and aligned with broader system priorities

About you

To succeed in this role, you’ll be a commercially astute finance professional who brings a mix of technical expertise, stakeholder influence, and a passion for improving healthcare outcomes. Ideally, you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in accounting, business, commerce, or a related field, along with membership in a recognised professional accounting body (CA/CPA), or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in management accounting or finance business partnering in a large, complex organisation—ideally with exposure to Oracle or similar financial systems.

• Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with proven experience collaborating, influencing, and negotiating with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior executives.

• Strong analytical thinking and financial modelling capabilities, including proficiency with Power BI and a data-driven approach to building dashboards, performance insights, and strategic reports.

• Sound knowledge of healthcare finance, particularly in public hospital funding models, revenue streams, and cost drivers, with the ability to navigate government policy and funding frameworks.

Why work at St Vincent’s?

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all, including the most at-risk people in our community

• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport

• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank

• Access to a government salary sacrifice program.  Make a proportion of your salary tax-free

• Committed to financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave

About the hospital

In this role you will be based at St Vincent’s hospital, Darlinghurst.

• A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location

• Surrounded by great cafes, galleries and theatres, parks, nightlife, and nearby glorious beaches

• A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people

• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes, many of which are located on-campus

• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health, homeless health, drug & alcohol services, and correctional health 

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia

Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.

Pre-employment checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

Equal opportunity

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

How to apply

The closing date for applications is 24 July 2025

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest, skills, and experience align with the role.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.

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