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Principal Business Manager


QEII Hospital, Coopers Plains

Drive Strategic Financial Management in Healthcare

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Join the Finance Department at QEII Jubilee Hospital as a Principal Business Manager, where you will lead financial management and reporting for a major healthcare facility. If you have advanced financial skills, experience in activity-based funding, and a passion for mentoring teams, this permanent full-time role is your chance to make a real impact.

Job details

Position status Permanent
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Administration
Classification AO7
Workplace Location Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS08653463
Closing date 22-Aug-2025
Job duration Permanent
Contact person Michael Miller
Contact details (07) 3182 6354
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Your new role:

As Principal Business Manager, you will lead financial operations within the QEII Finance Department, ensuring strategic alignment with Metro South Health's objectives. Your role encompasses financial planning, reporting, and team leadership to support informed decision-making and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the annual budgeting process, month-end reconciliations, and financial reporting, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
  • Manage a team of finance professionals, providing mentorship and fostering continuous development.
  • Utilize financial systems such as S/4HANA, DSS, Excel, and PowerBI to deliver accurate and timely financial information.
  • Collaborate with the QEII Finance Manager and Directorate Executive team to address complex financial and activity-based funding issues.

About you:

You are a values-driven finance professional who thrives in complex healthcare environments and leads teams to deliver excellence.

What you bring:

  • Proven Leadership & Team Management – Experience leading and mentoring finance staff, with strong delegation and performance development capabilities.
  • Financial Expertise in Healthcare – Advanced financial management skills, including activity-based funding, cost modelling, budgeting, and month-end reporting in public health or similarly complex organisations.
  • Exceptional Communication & Stakeholder Engagement – Adept at consulting and influencing internal and external stakeholders, including executive and directorate teams, to resolve funding and reporting issues.

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What we can offer you:

  • We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
  • We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
  • You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

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