About the Company

Our client is an independent, owner-operated specialist and emergency hospital in Sydney's south. It runs a 24 hour advanced treatment centre alongside a mobile service supporting referring clinics across Greater Sydney, covering surgery, internal medicine, emergency and critical care, imaging and a number of other disciplines.

It has grown quickly over recent years, and the need for commercial acumen inside finance has now reached the point where it's time to hire.

About the Role

Finance has been run by a lean team and a technically astute General Manager, with the weekly reporting pack built by an external resource for the past two years. That work now needs an owner inside the business, and this is the seat.

The harder and more interesting half is rostering and labour. Award rates, planned overtime, on-call clinicians and after-hours call-ins make workforce cost the most complex area in the business, and modelling it before decisions are made is where this role earns its keep. There's also a real data problem to solve: basic operational questions should be answerable reliably and aren't yet.

The intention is that this grows into a Commercial Business Partner role.

Responsibilities

• Own the weekly management pack: revenue by specialist against budget, staff cost to revenue, labour variance
• Rebuild the Excel reporting into a maintainable structure and build dashboards for the owners and department heads
• Develop service line reporting across the hospital and the mobile business
• Model the cost impact of headcount, roster changes and award movements before decisions are made
• Run the annual budget alongside the GM and fractional CFO, and own cash flow forecasting
• Support pricing across the clinical disciplines and build the case behind equipment and capital decisions
• Own data quality across the clinical and financial systems, fixing problems at source

Ideal Background

• Genuinely strong Excel, including modelling and large data sets, with the discipline to build something another person can pick up;
• Comfortable interrogating imperfect source systems rather than working around them;
• Excellent communication, because this job is as much the conversation on the floor as the number on the page;
• Helpful if you've worked around rostered or award-based workforces, and if you're part-qualified or planning to start a CPA or CA.

Benefits

• The first commercial finance seat in the business, with the build genuinely yours
• Direct exposure to the owners and clinical leadership
• Sydney's south, onsite parking, close to public transport
• A close, independent team where culture is taken seriously rather than talked about
• For a confidential discussion, please contact David Stuart-Watt on 04•• ••• 325 or at