Job type: Full time / Until 30 June 2028
Organisation: Department of Health
Occupation: Finance
Reference: VG/DH/HV/TBAANALYST
The Department of Health plays a critical role in the Victorian health system and is responsible for shaping it to meet the health needs of all Victorians. We're focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can; whether through alerting them to seasonal risks like thunderstorm asthma, notifying them of contact with communicable diseases, safeguarding their drinking water, developing the best health, wellbeing and care facilities in the world, being at the forefront of mental health and wellbeing treatment or accelerating medical research. It's all part of the way we partner with the community to help every individual lead a healthy life.
About the role: Are you:An experienced professional with expertise in health service funding models and workflow design, capable of optimising financial performance while ensuring compliance with funding rules and policies?Skilled at analysing datasets to uncover trends and opportunities, including benchmarking NWAU variations, and translating findings into actionable improvement strategies?Adept at stakeholder engagement, providing expert advice, and driving governance frameworks to deliver impactful health service financial and capability outcomes?Reporting to the Principal Analyst, Financial Improvement & Capability, the Senior Analyst is responsible for supporting the workflow design that will support improvement and capability strategies including revenue optimisation analysis. The Senior Analyst role will work with in a small team and contribute to the complex analysis as required.
Focusing on Health Service financial and activity workflow design to support sector improvement and capability, the Senior Analyst role is responsible for ensuring workflow changes to improve and optimise financial performance are presented, consulted and compliant with national funding rules and Victorian funding/programmatic policies and guidelines.
This position is part of a specialist unit dedicated to driving financial improvement and capability across Victoria's health services.
How you'll make a difference: Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate: Knowledge and Skills Leadership: Builds team commitment by demonstrating personal conviction; translates organisational strategy into meaningful long-term plans and objectives for own area of responsibility; motivates others to deliver against goals.Financial Acumen: Demonstrated experience in the provision of financial support within complex organisations and ability to provision financial analysis and benchmarking that influences operational performance and outcomes.Commercial Skills: Undertakes and acts on cost-benefit analysis; knowledgeable about financial issues and responsibilities; proactively seeks more efficient ways of doing things; focuses on activities and projects that will bring the best business return for the team and organisation.Written Communication and Presentation Skills: Prepares complex briefs, letters, emails, and reports using clear, concise and grammatically correct language; edits written communications to ensure they contain the information necessary to achieve their purpose and meet audience needs; ensures appropriate style and formats are used.Personal Qualities Conceptual and Analytical Ability: Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.Relationship Building: Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.Decisiveness: Takes rational and sound decisions based on a consideration of the facts and alternatives; makes tough decisions, sometimes with incomplete information; evaluates rational and emotional elements of situations; makes quick decisions where required; commits to a definite course of action.Detail Focus: Observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.What we offer: The opportunity to perform meaningful work, making direct contributions toward enabling Victorians to be the healthiest people in the world.A wide range of growth and development opportunities within the department and wider Victorian Public Service & Sector.A strong commitment to work-life balance, including a diverse array of flexible working arrangements.How to apply: Applications should include a resume and a cover letter. Click the 'Apply' button to view further information about the role including key contact details and the advertisement closing date.
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