Role title: Senior Manager, Financial Accounting and External Reporting
Role type: Permanent full time
Role grade: Health Services Manager Grade 4
Department and location: Finance, St Vincent's Public Hospital, Sydney
Salary: $153,****** - $182,****** + 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.
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.
Solid 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 robust 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
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.
Reconciliation Action Plan: At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees.
As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit or get in contact at ******
St Vincent's Health Australia has been serving Australians with compassionate health and aged care since our first hospital was established in Sydney in ****.
Founded by the Sisters of Charity more than 180 years ago, St Vincent's is a clinical, research and education leader delivering private hospital, public hospital and aged care services across NSW, VIC and QLD.
Our founder, Mary Aikenhead's vision, commitment and inspiration lives on in us and the work we do.
From modest beginnings, St Vincent's Health Australia is today the nation's largest not‐for‐profit health and aged care provider, offering services in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, including public and private hospitals and aged care facilities.
The St Vincent's family comprises 22,000 outstanding nurses, researchers, cooks, doctors, executives, administrators, cleaners, volunteers and more.
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📌 Senior Manager, Financial Accounting And External Reporting (Sydney)
🏢 St Vincent's Health Australia
📍 Sydney