We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Financial Accountant to join our Finance team at Opera Australia on a full-time basis. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the general ledger and delivering accurate and timely month-end and year-end reporting across the organisation.
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the Senior Financial Accountant plays a critical role in providing financial insights, strengthening internal controls and supporting audit readiness. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with stakeholders across the business, translating complex financial information into clear, actionable insights that support decision-making and operational success.
Opera Australia (‘OA’) is the nation’s premier opera company and one of its most important cultural institutions. With a rich history and a global reputation for artistic excellence, we present over 500 performances each year - reaching more than 650,000 people through opera, musicals and concerts.
Our productions span iconic venues such as the Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne, as well as regional centres across the country. We are committed to artistic innovation, national reach and cultural leadership. We nurture Australian talent on and off the stage; collaborates with leading international and local companies and bring extraordinary stories to life through music and song. With a full-time orchestra, dedicated chorus and a highly skilled workforce, OA is Australia’s largest performing arts employer and plays a vital role in Australia’s performing arts landscape and in the lives of audiences nationwide.
For more information about OA please visit opera.org.au
As Australia’s National opera company, we are committed to fostering a safe and collaborative environment for all. Our values are Curious, Creative, Collaborative, Brave and Inclusive and we are dedicated to supporting OA’s people both on-stage and off.
If this sounds like you then click 'Apply' to send through your CV and cover letter.
Applications close on 22nd May, 2026.
For any enquiries about this role, please contact people@opera.org.au
Opera Australia recognises and acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters across Australia on which we live, perform and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. We recognise, celebrate and respect all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first storytellers who carry the cultural wisdom, traditions and Dreaming of this ancient land.
Opera Australia is committed to enabling and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. Our team comes from all walks of life. We acknowledge that all individual differences, life experiences, self-expression and talent represent our culture and reputation of Opera Australia. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression.
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.
