<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Company</span></strong></p><p>Join one of Melbourne's leading hospitals, renowned for its excellence in patient care, innovation, and community impact. With a strong focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, this organisation combines cutting-edge medical services with a supportive and inclusive culture. You'll be part of a forward-thinking large finance team that plays a critical role in supporting the hospital's strategic and operational priorities. This role will be a 9 month maternity leave cover contract.</p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Role</span></strong></p><p>Reporting directly to the CFO, this 9-month maternity leave cover offers an exciting opportunity to lead the financial control function of a complex, high-volume organisation. You'll be responsible for ensuring the integrity of financial reporting, leading a small team, and supporting executive decision-making through strong financial governance and insight.</p><p> </p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></span></p><ul><li>Oversee all aspects of financial reporting, compliance, and internal controls</li><li>Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processes with accuracy and timeliness</li><li>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.</li><li>Provide financial insights and recommendations to the CFO and leadership team</li><li>Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, and audit requirements</li><li>Drive process improvements to enhance reporting efficiency and accuracy</li><li>Oversee large finance team</li><li>Mentor and develop finance team members, fostering a culture of excellence and accountability</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Your Profile</span></strong></p><p>You're a CPA or CA-qualified finance leader with strong experience in financial control, ideally gained within a complex or high-volume organisation-experience in healthcare, government, or large not-for-profit settings will be highly regarded. You thrive in dynamic environments, possess exceptional stakeholder management</p><p>skills, and can balance technical accuracy with strategic thinking.</p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Apply Today</span></strong></p><p>Please send your resume by clicking on the apply button.</p><p><em>Reference Number: </em>06810-0013328354</p><p><em>By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. For further information on how Robert Half processes your personal information and how to access and correct your information, please read the Robert Half privacy notice: <a href="https://www.roberthalf.com/au/en/privacy" target="_blank">https://www.roberthalf.com/au/en/privacy</a>. Please do not submit any sensitive personal data to us in your resume (such as government ID numbers, ethnicity, gender, religion, marital status or trade union membership) as we do not collect your sensitive personal data at this time.</em></p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/ZGVlb24udGF5bG9yZGVhbi42NTA3OC4xMDY3NUByaGlhdXMuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">

Month end, Financial Accounting, bank recs, journals, AP, AR