Job Description
Senior Financial Accountant Role Snapshot
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Details
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Role title Senior Financial Accountant – Treasury & Transactions
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Organisation / Entity Western NSW Local Health District
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Job location Negotiable within Western NSW Local Health District
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Job reference number ******
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Work type Temporary full-time until 24 October ****
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Salary package $137,525 to $156,231 plus superannuation and salary packaging options
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Verdict: This is a strong opportunity for an experienced financial accountant, treasury accountant or senior finance adviser who has personally owned complex balances, transactions and governance. The location flexibility may widen the field, while the technical scope will narrow the serious competition to people with comparable responsibility. Strong applicants will show how their advice protected financial integrity and supported a large service organisation.
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You could be competitive if...
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You have managed treasury activity, investments, trust accounting, restricted funds, transactional controls or similar high-consequence financial work. Strong applicants will be able to connect technical accounting accuracy to financial sustainability, risk and service delivery.
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Transferable backgrounds that can work
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Senior accountants from banking, investment operations, insurance, large not-for-profit organisations, universities or regulated industries may transfer well. Experience in health is helpful but not essential if your examples show strict governance, complex stakeholders, sensitive funds and accurate advice.
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What is probably not enough
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General month-end reporting, accounts payable supervision or basic financial analysis without treasury, trust, restricted asset or comparable governance responsibility is unlikely to be enough. Simply being a qualified accountant will not establish senior-level capability.
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Your application test
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Can you use a selection-criteria example to show the financial risk, technical judgement, control setting,



stakeholder advice and result from a complex transaction or treasury issue? A trust or restricted-funds example becomes assessable when the reader can see the rules applied, the competing pressure, the approval or control you protected and the outcome. If your examples stop at completing routine processes, this is probably a stretch role.
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NSW Government Application Requirements
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This vacancy asks for a current resume and individual responses to the selection criteria. Use the exact criteria in the position description to organise the response, then choose one focused example for each area wherever possible. The resume should establish the breadth and seniority of your finance work while the criteria responses explain your judgement in depth.
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Application Requirements For Senior Financial Accountant
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Current resume
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Individual responses to the selection criteria in the position description
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Relevant tertiary qualification in accounting, commerce, finance or a related discipline
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Australian work rights and NSW Health pre-employment requirements
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NSW Government Candidate Requirements
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Use the selection criteria to prove technical depth, sound judgement and the ability to operate as a trusted adviser. Systems and qualifications establish credibility, while the examples need to show what you decided, how you protected governance and why the result mattered. That combination will make senior-level capability easier for the panel to assess.
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Candidate Requirements For Senior Financial Accountant
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Evidence area
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How to demonstrate it
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Treasury and transactional accounting Describe the funds, transactions, controls or treasury processes you owned and the risks you had to manage.
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Trust accounting and restricted assets Give a specific example of protecting the integrity, allocation, reporting or use of restricted funds.
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Financial governance Explain the policies, controls, approvals, reconciliations or reviews that supported accurate and compliant outcomes.
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Senior stakeholder engagement Show how you advised leaders, auditors, service managers or other stakeholders when the issue was technically complex or sensitive.
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Financial sustainability Connect your work to better planning, risk management, cash management, reporting quality or service outcomes.
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The selection criteria are contained in the position description. Use their exact wording as headings or subheadings in your response document if the portal format permits it. This creates a clear compliance structure and helps the panel find the evidence attached to each criterion.
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Suggested selection-criteria structure
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State the context, financial function and level of responsibility.
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Explain the complex accounting, treasury or transaction problem.
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Set out the technical analysis, controls and judgement you applied.
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Show how you advised stakeholders and handled risk or competing priorities.
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Finish with the measurable financial, governance or service outcome.
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Use your resume to show scope: the size of the organisation, funds or portfolios, the accounting systems, the standards and policies, and the senior stakeholders who relied on your advice. A selection-criteria response can then focus on the difficult decision or risk rather than spending half the word count establishing context.
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Help With Your Senior Financial Accountant Application
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Before submitting, return to the official Senior Financial Accountant vacancy and read the position description, selection criteria and final application instructions. Check that every response reaches a result and that the combined set covers technical accounting, governance and trusted stakeholder advice without repeating the same example.

📌 Senior Financial Accountant - Treasury & Transactions (New South Wales)
🏢 Team 3Thirty
📍 New South Wales