Finance Business Partner

at  The Garvan Institute of Medical Research

The Finance team, led by the Chief Financial Officer, exists to support the strategic and financial aims of the Institute through the regular planning, controlling and reporting of the financial operations including the Garvan Research Foundation (GRF) and Australian Bioresources (ABR). The short-term focus is on enhancing systems reporting and developing business intelligence metrics to provide key insights which will inform decision-making.

ABOUT GARVAN

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision. We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.
Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.
We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.
Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. We are always looking for culture ‘add’, not culture ‘fit’ and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.

This position will be responsible for the following duties:

• Partner with cost centre managers and provide financial information and analysis to support decision-making
• Maintain financial integrity in compliance with Garvan policies
• Oversee and measure cost centre performance against KPIs
• Support the Financial Controller and CFO with preparing information for budgets and forecasts
• Prepare financial models and provide analysis as required
• Input into the design of cost-centre dashboards and reports and engage with working groups to enhance systems and processes
• Provide support to non-financial internal customers on finance processes
• Prepare submissions and financial reports for State Government, funding bodies (NHMRC, CINSW, NBCF CCNSW etc.) and other stakeholders
• Provide assistance on all internal and external audits as required