The Opportunity
The Chief Finance Officer, plays a key leadership role in stabilising, strengthening and modernising critical corporate and operational functions across the health service.
Key aspects of the role include:
Leading financial stewardship and performance across a health service with an annual operating budget of approximately $323 million.
Providing executive leadership across finance, procurement, contracts, accommodation services, building and maintenance, and health information management functions.
Rebuilding capability, stability and culture across several teams undergoing significant change and renewal.
Supporting operational and strategic decision-making across hospitals, remote services and corporate functions.
Leading financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting within a complex dual funding environment
Driving process improvement, reform initiatives and long-term structural improvements across the portfolio
Leading quarterly performance discussions and contributing to governance, audit and finance committee processes
Partnering closely with executive leaders to improve service delivery outcomes across remote communities
You will work closely with the Health Service Chief Executive and Executive Leadership Team to strengthen organisational capability while ensuring the service remains responsive to the needs of the communities it serves.
About the North West Hospital and Health Service
The North West Hospital and Health Service delivers public healthcare across a vast and geographically dispersed region of north-west Queensland. The service supports a diverse and remote population. Improving health equity, strengthening partnerships with First Nations leaders and delivering culturally responsive healthcare are central to the organisation's future direction and strategic priorities.
About You
You are a pragmatic and relationship-driven executive leader with the resilience, stamina and judgement to perform in a complex regional environment.
You operate in a hands-on, grounded way across both strategic and operational priorities, with a demonstrated ability to build trust, simplify complexity and drive accountability while developing others.
You are a team-first leader who values honesty and transparency, with a proven track record of making sound decisions, navigating ambiguity and leading through change and transformation.
You will bring:
Demonstrated senior leadership experience within large, complex or operationally diverse organisations.
Strong financial management capability, including budgeting, reporting and commercial acumen.
Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams through change, improvement or transformation.
The ability to build trusted relationships and credibility across diverse stakeholder groups.
A practical, solutions-focused leadership style with a willingness to be hands-on.
Strong judgement, communication and decision-making capability.
Experience within healthcare, government or similarly complex environments (highly regarded).
Exposure to activity-based funding and block funding models (advantageous).
For a confidential discussion about this opportunity please contact: James Muller, General Manager - C3Talent on 0431 046 301.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
