Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland. We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between. More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focused on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive. Bayside Health was formed following the merger of Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health on 1 January 2026.
Bayside Health Finance supports a large, complex public health service through high-quality budgeting, forecasting, reporting and financial advice. The team works closely with operational, capital and project stakeholders across Bayside Health to support informed decision-making, strong financial controls and fit-for-purpose financial information.
The Management Accountant (Capital and Finance Projects) reports to the Senior Manager Capital and Finance Projects and provides accurate, timely and customer-focused financial support across allocated capital, project and operational portfolios across Bayside Health services.
The role supports service improvement, reform, organisational, capital and finance-led projects by assisting with analytics, funding calculations, cost modelling, capital project budgets, forecasts, month-end and year-end reporting, accruals, journals and general financial advice. Working closely with senior colleagues, program and project stakeholders and the broader Finance team, you will help ensure financial information, analysis and advice is accurate, robust, fit for purpose and supports effective decision-making.
The successful candidate will bring the following key skills, capabilities and experience:
This is an opportunity to contribute to capital planning, investment prioritisation, service improvement and finance-led project activity across a major Victorian public health service, while developing your management accounting, project finance and stakeholder engagement capability in a supportive, collaborative team.
Please include a current CV and cover letter outlining your relevant finance, analytical and stakeholder engagement experience.
For enquiries regarding this position, please contact Tom Joshua on T.Joshua@alfred.org.au.
Applications close: 11pm AEDT, Friday 5th October 2026.
We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people of all genders, sexualities, and cultural backgrounds.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application materials, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
