Accountant

Job Description

• Excellent benefits including salary packaging
• Convenient Fitzroy Location
• Pro-active & supportive leadership
• Flexible working arrangements
• Work for one of Australia’s leading hospital groups

About the Role

The Accountant ensures that each month’s financial and transactional accounting tasks are completed and reconciled in an accurate and timely fashion. Additionally, you will provide assistance to various sections of the finance function including year-end audit tasks and various statutory returns.

Key activities in this role will include:

• Prepare month end financial accounts to profit and loss and balance sheet level, according to set timetables
• Prepare year-end audit package for auditors
• Provide information to the site Business Performance Analyst/Financial Controller for completion of month-end reporting package for Executive Directors

Your Contribution

The preferred candidate will hold a degree in Accounting, Finance or Business, CPA/CA Membership, as well as the following skills and attributes:

• Sound technical and working knowledge of accounting for revenue, wages, supplies and fixed assets
• A sound technical knowledge of GST and FBT reporting
• Ability to learn and use new computer software applications
• Ability to reconcile subsidiary ledgers and balance sheet accounts to the general ledger as well as correct reconciling items on a timely basis
• Ability to code invoices to the respective expense or capital areas
• Ability to communicate succinctly with peers and superiors, both verbally and in writing

What we Offer

• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
• In the heart of Fitzroy, CBD at our doorstep, close to some of Melbourne’s best cafes, public transport and lots of carparks
• Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals
• Culture of continuous improvement

St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities.

Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.

Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.

SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations). This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements. Please contact us if you would like to know more.

Closing Date: 1 November 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

St Vincent’s Health Australia has been serving Australians with compassionate health and aged care since our first hospital was established in Sydney in 1857. Founded by the Sisters of Charity more than 180 years ago, St Vincent’s is a clinical, research and education leader delivering private hospital, public hospital and aged care services across NSW, VIC and QLD. Our founder, Mary Aikenhead’s vision, commitment and inspiration lives on in us and the work we do. From modest beginnings, St Vincent’s Health Australia is today the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, offering services in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, including public and private hospitals and aged care facilities. The St Vincent’s family comprises 22,000 outstanding nurses, researchers, cooks, doctors, executives, administrators, cleaners, volunteers and more.

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