Shape financial performance and service planning across Metro South Health.

Shape the future of health funding and service planning at Metro South Health. Provide executive leadership, strategic advice, and drive funding integrity and performance across one of Queensland’s largest health services.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Senior Director - Health Funding Analysis, you will lead Metro South Health's strategic health funding and activity function, reporting directly to the Chief Finance and Sustainability Officer. You will provide executive leadership, expert advice and governance oversight to optimise activity-based funding (ABF) outcomes, strengthen funding integrity, and support financial sustainability. Within this role you will:

• Provide enterprise-wide leadership on ABF, funding reforms, and State and Commonwealth policy, supporting service planning and financial strategy.
• Analyse Weighted Activity Units, case-mix complexity, cost structures, and funding variances to drive performance improvement and support executive decision-making.
• Advise on major projects, service redesign, and hospital expansion, modelling funding impacts and risks under multiple scenarios.
• Assist in negotiations with the Department of Health on funding arrangements, activity targets, and performance issues, advocating for Metro South Health.
• Represent the Health Service in state and national ABF forums, committees, and working groups, contributing to funding policy, classification, and costing standards.
• Lead, develop, and sustain a multidisciplinary team of ABF analysts, Health Information Managers, and clinicians, building capability in funding intelligence and performance management.

About you:

You are a senior financial leader with a strategic mindset and a proven track record in managing complex funding, ABF, and performance frameworks. You excel at translating complex technical and analytical information into actionable insights and have strong experience guiding executive decision-making. Your leadership fosters collaboration, capability building, and accountability. In addition, you have:

• Extensive experience in ABF, health funding strategy, financial governance, and performance management within a large, public sector organisation or multi-facility health service.
• Proven ability to lead and inspire high-performing, multidisciplinary teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
• Exceptional analytical, strategic, and communication skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate at an executive level.

For comprehensive information about this opportunity and what we are looking for in the ideal candidate, please view the attached role description.

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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.

About us:

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.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

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.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS03677288 - Role Description (PDF)