Refuge Victoria is one of the largest specialist family violence refuge providers in Victoria. We support people at serious risk due to family violence by providing safe accommodation, safety planning, and holistic care. With three refuge facilities, 15 crisis properties, and strong community housing partnerships, we work alongside women and children to help them rebuild safer lives.
Our vision is simple: for people escaping family violence to live safe and free.
Our values: Compassionate, Empowering, Collaborative, Integrity, Committed – guide everything we do.
Reporting to the Director of Finance and Corporate Services, the Senior Accountant will play a key role in strengthening the organisation's financial processes, internal controls and operational efficiency, while supporting the development of the finance team.
The role will improve financial policies, procedures and systems, deliver training and coaching to build team capability, and provide hands on support across financial reporting, reconciliations, month-end and year-end processes, funding acquittals and taxation.
The role is expected to contribute to sustainable improvements in finance operations through effective processes, documentation and staff capability development.
Financial Processes, Procedures and Internal Controls
Accountant Training and Capability Development
Financial Reporting and Accounting Support
To thrive in this role, you will be a confident and experienced accountant with strong knowledge of financial processes and internal controls. You will bring a collaborative approach and demonstrated experience in mentoring, training and coaching team members, with the ability to share your expertise, build capability and support the development of emerging finance professionals.
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At Refuge Victoria, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ communities, people living with a disability, and those with lived experience of family violence.
A cover letter and your resume outlining relevant experience and how it aligns to the key selection criteria.
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.
