Financial Controller

The Opportunity
As the Financial Controller, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the financial operations of the HBF Group including HBF Health, Wellness, Queensland Country Health Fund and Life Ready. Reporting directly to the General Manager Group Finance, your responsibilities include creating a culture of exceptional service, teamwork, and commitment to excellence within the finance team. Your role extends to leading the comprehensive and accurate reporting of all financial activities, ensuring adherence to accounting policies and standards and internal controls.

You will also be responsible for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the internal controls framework and ensuring the integrity and transparency of APRA and statutory financial reporting. Thriving in this role is not just dependent on navigating complexities, but actively seeking complexity out and challenging existing ways of working as opportunities to learn, grow and optimise. This means having a deep curiosity to delve deeper into processes, a resourceful mindset to being experience and expertise and resilience to preserve through ambiguity. Collaborating with key stakeholders across the organization including the Audit Committee, you will provide informed financial insights and accounting advice to support strategic decision-making to the CFO, General Manager Group Finance and the Audit Committee.

This role presents a unique opportunity to contribute to HBF's business transformation journey, emphasising innovation, complexity management, and the continuous improvement of financial processes within the HBF Group. If you are a seasoned finance professional with leadership, a Financial Controller skillset and a strategic mindset, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of HBF.

About You
We are seeking an accomplished and dynamic finance professional to fill the role of Financial Controller at HBF. The ideal candidate brings over 10 years of demonstrated experience in finance, controllership and accounting management, holding a Bachelor or post-graduate degree in Accounting and Finance or a related field, along with a professional accounting qualification. This individual possesses exceptional interpersonal skills, influencing abilities, and a proven track record of building effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels. Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills are paramount, as is the capacity to lead a team and drive a performance-based culture. The successful candidate will have experience in managing financial operations, operating effective internal controls, risk management and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements. Additionally, expertise in financial analysis, stakeholder management, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement are highly valued. If you are an innovative, results-driven finance leader with the ability to navigate complexities and contribute to HBF's transformative journey, we encourage you to apply.

Essential Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience in finance and accounting management
• Bachelor or post-graduate degree in Accounting and Finance or other related field (or equivalent significant) work experience
• Professional accounting qualification
• Demonstrated experience in influencing senior level management and key stakeholders such as Audit Committees
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with people at all levels of the organization
• Experience in challenging the status quo to improve the financial controls framework and manage risk
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong business acumen, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience in building finance analysis capability and developing a finance analysis services strategy in organisations

How to Apply
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About HBF
As one of WA’s longest established private health providers, (we’ve been around for 80 years!), we continue to innovate and challenge the status quo; adopting a strategy that focuses on business growth and sustainability, diversification, national expansion and significant enhancements to how we service our members through technology and relevant related businesses.

As a not-for-profit fund with no shareholders, we are dedicated to doing the right thing for our members. That’s why our iconic brand’s reputation is built on personalised service, community support and a motivation to deliver for our members in the moments that matter.

When you work for HBF, you work for a company with a clear vision and a team of people that are passionate about providing the best service, experience and products for our members across Australia.

So why not come with us on our transformation journey and see where a career with HBF can take you?

Our Values
At HBF, we live our values every day. They shape our behaviours and how we relate to each other, our members and our community:

Members are our reason - Members are the reason we exist and are at the heart of everything we do.
We do the right thing - We are open and honest in everything we do. We do what is right, not what is easy and explain why we are doing it.
We are brave - We are brave in the way we will tackle the future. We’re driven by curiosity, and constantly look for better ways to work smarter, faster and more innovatively.
We work as one - We act as one HBF because we’re better together. We work not as individuals but as a team to achieve more.

Employee benefits
Fully Subsided Corporate Gold Health Cover
13 days personal leave per year
Career development opportunities
Access to corporate discounts across a range of retail, restaurants and hotels

Our recruitment and selection process include a variety of assessment methods that may encompass psychometric assessments, reference checks and verification of working rights in Australia. Preferred candidates will be required to return a satisfactory National Police Clearance prior to an offer of employment being extended.

At HBF, we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. HBF is a place of belonging. We are proud of who we are, and we encourage applications from diverse groups such as Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people, physical ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and family background, including caring responsibilities.