Finance Manager - Aged Care

Join us and let's make a bigger difference together.

It's an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity - we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Established in 1840, we're Australia's first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to Help People to Thrive.

Join us and let's make a bigger difference together.

It's an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity - we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Established in 1840, we're Australia's first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to Help People to Thrive.

Your New Role:

9 Month Fixed Term Contract - The Finance Manager - Aged Care is a significant finance and leadership role within Group Finance & Strategy.

The role will be responsible for managing business performance, ensuring high quality information to support key decision making, while maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring compliance with all external reporting and governance obligations.

The role will build a strong partnership with the management team in the Aged Care business and the Group Finance & Strategy teams, driving the Australian Unity finance transformation agenda and providing outstanding and inspiring leadership to the immediate team and broader Finance community.

Your New Role:

• Oversee the preparation of accurate and timely actual results on a monthly basis for the Aged Care business;
• Oversee the reconciliation of financial data from underlying business systems to general ledger;
• Oversee maintenance of all general ledger reconciliations for Aged Care;
• Oversee the postings of appropriate adjustment journals including accruals, provisions and receivables;
• Oversee the preparation and finalization of budgets and forecasts for the Aged Care business based through collaboration with the business;
• Understand the various business risks and opportunities, providing appropriate challenge to the inclusion/exclusion of these items in budgets and forecasts
• Build effective and healthy partnering relationships with key stakeholders in the business unit to ensure alignment of reporting and forecasting processes
• General cash flow management of business, incorporating inter-entity and inter-company loans management, cash flow forecasting and adherence to AU Group funding governance requirements
• Management and oversight of capital expenditure for the business
• Role model the aspired leadership behaviors aligned to the Australian Unity culture;
• Supervise/Manage the Aged Care Finance team, implementing individual performance objectives and skills development necessary to meet operational goals

About You:

• 8+ years relevant financial and management accounting experience;
• CA/CPA Qualified
• Solid experience in system processes, variance analysis, reconciliations, issue resolution and process improvement;
• Solid experience in forecasting and budgeting;
• Advanced Excel skills and computer literate in a range of financial software and accounting packages (e.g. TM1, SUN, Blackline)
• Strong collaborator and relationship builder while driving for success
• Coaching and development skills

Your Benefits:
 
You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

• Competitive remuneration
• Flexible working arrangements including work-from-home days with a real work-life balance
• A range of attractive product and service discounts from Australian Unity's Retail and Wealth Management portfolio - including health insurance and banking products
• Supported Learning and Career Development program
• Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform
• Additional paid Wellbeing and Community Volunteer Days yearly

What Makes Us, Us

Putting people first is not just something we say, it's what we do. We care for our people so they can care for themselves and our customers. We stay true to our values (Bold, Warm, Honest), we work hard because it matters and we work well together - collaborating, encouraging and even managing to have some fun.

At Australian Unity we do the right thing and we expect the same from others. Being a member-owned company, means we're focused on our members and customers, not shareholder returns. Our purpose to Help People to Thrive, drives us to make a real difference, every day, big and small. We are passionate about improving the wellbeing of all Australians and about making a positive difference.

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.