Senior Manager, Financial Accounting and External Reporting

NSW Health; Sydney; On-site; AUD 154,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Not-for-profit benefits

Job summary

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney invites applications for a Senior Manager, Financial Accounting and External Reporting. You will lead month-end and year-end close, prepare statutory financial statements, manage cash flow, fixed assets, leases, trusts, and ensure NSW Health reporting obligations are met.

CA/CPA qualified senior finance leader with strong governance, risk management, and team leadership will drive continuous improvement across systems, controls, and stakeholder reporting, delivering

Qualifications

• CA/CPA qualified with significant senior-level financial accounting experience in healthcare or public sector.
• Strong technical accounting expertise and knowledge of Australian Accounting Standards.
• Proven ability to lead month-end/year-end close, audits, and statutory compliance.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and ability to engage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial accounting and external reporting for the hospital, overseeing month-end and year-end close.
• Manage statutory reporting, cash flow, fixed assets, leases and trusts, ensuring compliance.
• Coordinate internal and external audits; address findings and audit readiness.
• Strengthen financial governance, controls, risk management and GL integrity.
• Develop the financial accounting team and drive process improvements.

Skills

Financial leadership

Technical accounting

Governance & risk management

Education

CA/CPA qualified

Job description

Senior Manager, Financial Accounting and External Reporting

Role title: Senior Manager, Financial Accounting and External Reporting

Role type: Permanent full time

Department and location: Finance, St Vincent’s Public Hospital, Sydney

Salary: $153,559.00 - $182,954.00 + super + salary packaging

Welcome to St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney

Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.

Founded by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat. As Sydney’s premier and iconic inner-city public hospital, we serve the entire population, providing world-class care to all people, including the most vulnerable in our community. Across our renowned precinct, we feature cutting-edge programs and surgery infrastructure, fostering clinical excellence and professional growth.

Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, we are positioned just minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections from the east, and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations right to our doorstep.

Read on to explore this exciting role and the fantastic perks waiting for you here.

About the role

Lead financial accounting and reporting for St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, overseeing month-end/year-end close, financial statements, cash flow, fixed assets, leases, Trust Funds and statutory reporting.

Provide senior technical accounting leadership across complex areas including revenue, grants, capital works, leases, provisions and other significant accounting matters, ensuring sound judgement and compliance.

Strengthen financial governance, controls and risk management, maintaining GL integrity, reconciliations, delegations, audit readiness and timely escalation of material financial risks.

Lead audit and compliance activities, coordinating internal and external audits, resolving findings and ensuring all statutory and NSW Health reporting obligations are met.

Lead and develop the financial accounting team while driving continuous improvement across systems, processes, reporting and stakeholder relationships to strengthen financial performance and control.

About you

CA/CPA qualified with significant senior-level financial accounting experience, ideally within a complex healthcare, public sector or highly regulated environment.

Strong technical accounting expertise, with a proven ability to navigate complex accounting matters, apply Australian Accounting Standards and exercise sound professional judgement.

Experienced financial leader who can lead month-end/year-end reporting, statutory compliance, audit processes, financial controls and risk management.

Strategic and commercially minded, with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Confident people leader and change driver, with a track record of developing high-performing teams, improving processes and systems, and building effective relationships across a complex organisation.

What we can offer you

Exceptional Rewards: Competitive pay and not-for-profit salary packaging to maximise your income

Seamless NSW Health Mobility: Smooth transfer of your qualifying service and leave entitlements

World-Class: Be part of a renowned precinct alongside the Garvan & Victor Chang institutes

Excellence: Premier heart/lung transplant program, advanced robotics, & pioneering HIV/AIDS initiatives

Cutting-Edge Oncology: Deliver advanced cancer care and trials at the renowned Kinghorn Cancer Centre

Community: Support vital programs for First Nations, homelessness, mental health, & drug and alcohol care

Professional Advancement: Accelerate your career with study leave and Curran Foundation scholarships

Health & Wellbeing: Fitness Passport, discounted private health, & cultural recognitions and celebrations

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.

Equal opportunity

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

As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.