Senior Management Accountant - Operations

NSW Health; Wagga Wagga; On-site; AUD 138,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

NSW Health in Wagga Wagga is seeking a Health Manager - Level 3 to lead financial planning and reporting for WWBH operations. You will monitor budget performance and provide regular reporting to stakeholders on financial results and budget, while driving financial efficiency across WWBH.

Working with the WWBH Executive and MLHD Finance Directorate, you will lead financial improvement projects and provide staff training in financial delegation, contributing to budget preparation and management.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in accounting, business, finance (or related subject) and/or extensive relevant management accounting experience, preferably within a hospital/NSW Government setting
• Experience in operationalising key finance, performance and business strategies to achieve agreed outcomes with demonstrated high-level analytical skills using financial, and workforce and management data systems to pro-actively improve business performance
• Proven high-level interpersonal skills including ability to communicate clearly, negotiate persuasively, facilitate and express ideas clearly and coherently, both orally and in writing and influence key stakeholders to achieve required outcomes
• Proven skills to work collaboratively as a senior team member with the ability to support large projects to achieve desired outcomes within specific deadlines and approved resource allocation
• Demonstrated experience and capacity to undertake high level and sometimes complex analysis, performance monitoring / reporting and economic evaluation
• Evidence of a current Australian driver's licence equivalent to an unrestricted Class C NSW driver's licence

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective and efficient operational management accounting is consistently applied to all levels of the facility
• Build close, constructive relationships with the MLHD Finance Directorate that support WWBH and system wide change management
• Provide a support service to WWBH Executive to enable WWBH to meet its operational budgetary and financial requirements
• Develop and implement financial improvement projects across WWBH operations
• Lead and participate in multi-disciplinary teams to promote change within WWBH
• Provide financial management training to WWBH Operations staff with financial delegation
• Provide support to the Finance Manager WWBH through assistance with financial statements and reports at critical periods and during WWBH budget preparation
• National Police Check
• Tertiary qualifications in accounting, business, commerce or relevant discipline
• Experience working within management within a large complex organisation
• Excellent organisational and reporting skills and the ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders and in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver change
• Demonstrated experience in project management and delivering change within a large organisation
• Demonstrated ability to coach and train staff
• Demonstrated ability to prepare ad hoc and periodic financial and project management reports

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Negotiation

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Staff coaching

Education

Tertiary qualifications in accounting/finance/business

Job description

Position Classification: Health Manager - Level 3
Remuneration: $137,525.00 - $156,231.00 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Employment Type: Temporary Full - Time (until 25 October 2027)
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Wagga Wagga
Requisition ID: REQ694392
Closing Date: 13 November 2026

About the Role

Wagga Wagga Base Hospital (WWBH) is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to facilitate the effective and efficient planning and reporting on the use of WWBH operational financial resources. You will monitor budget performance, provide timely and regular reporting to key stakeholders on financial results and budget, and improve manager financial efficiency and capability across WWBH Operations.

Working closely with the WWBH Executive team, cost centre managers and the MLHD Finance Directorate, you will support the Finance Manager WWBH with financial statements and reports at critical periods and through WWBH budget preparation, while leading financial improvement projects and providing financial management training to staff with financial delegation.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure effective and efficient operational management accounting is consistently applied to all levels of the facility
• Build close, constructive relationships with the MLHD Finance Directorate that support WWBH and system wide change management
• Provide a support service to WWBH Executive to enable WWBH to meet its operational budgetary and financial requirements
• Develop and implement financial improvement projects across WWBH operations
• Lead and participate in multi-disciplinary teams to promote change within WWBH
• Provide financial management training to WWBH Operations staff with financial delegation
• Provide support to the Finance Manager WWBH through assistance with financial statements and reports at critical periods and during WWBH budget preparation
• National Police Check
• Tertiary qualifications in accounting, business, commerce or relevant discipline
• Experience working within management within a large complex organisation
• Excellent organisational and reporting skills and the ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders and in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver change
• Demonstrated experience in project management and delivering change within a large organisation
• Demonstrated ability to coach and train staff
• Demonstrated ability to prepare ad hoc and periodic financial and project management reports

Selection Criteria

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in accounting, business, finance (or related subject) and/or extensive relevant management accounting experience, preferably within a hospital/NSW Government setting
• Experience in operationalising key finance, performance and business strategies to achieve agreed outcomes with demonstrated high-level analytical skills using financial, and workforce and management data systems to pro-actively improve business performance
• Proven high-level interpersonal skills including ability to communicate clearly, negotiate persuasively, facilitate and express ideas clearly and coherently, both orally and in writing and influence key stakeholders to achieve required outcomes
• Proven skills to work collaboratively as a senior team member with the ability to support large projects to achieve desired outcomes within specific deadlines and approved resource allocation
• Demonstrated experience and capacity to undertake high level and sometimes complex analysis, performance monitoring / reporting and economic evaluation
• Evidence of a current Australian driver's licence equivalent to an unrestricted Class C NSW driver's licence

Need More Information

For role related queries or questions contact William Pleming via ***************@health.nsw.gov.au, for a confidential chat.

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We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.

If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, you can access recruitment application support through the Stepping Up initiative.