Chief Financial Officer

C3Talent is partnering with the North West Hospital and Health Service to appoint a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Reporting to the Health Service Chief Executive and working closely with the Executive Leadership Team, this critical executive role provides strategic financial leadership across a $323 million health service spanning 11 sites across one of Queensland’s most geographically vast and culturally diverse regions.

Based in Mount Isa, the CFO oversees a broad and operationally diverse portfolio supporting functions across hospitals and remote community clinics throughout the region.

The Opportunity
As Chief Financial Officer, you will play a key leadership role in stabilising, strengthening and modernising critical corporate and operational functions across the health service.

This is a highly visible and hands-on executive role requiring strong financial capability, operational leadership and the ability to build trusted relationships across teams, clinicians, executives and government stakeholders.
Key aspects of the role include:

• Leading financial stewardship and performance across a health service with an annual operating budget of approximately $323 million.
• Providing executive leadership across finance, procurement, contracts, accommodation services, building and maintenance, and health information management functions.
• Rebuilding capability, stability and culture across several teams undergoing significant change and renewal.
• Supporting operational and strategic decision-making across hospitals, remote services and corporate functions.
• Leading financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting within a complex dual funding environment
• Driving process improvement, reform initiatives and long-term structural improvements across the portfolio
• Leading quarterly performance discussions and contributing to governance, audit and finance committee processes
• Partnering closely with executive leaders to improve service delivery outcomes across remote communities

You will work closely with the Health Service Chief Executive and Executive Leadership Team to strengthen organisational capability while ensuring the service remains responsive to the needs of the communities it serves.

About the North West Hospital and Health Service
The North West Hospital and Health Service delivers public healthcare across a vast and geographically dispersed region of north-west Queensland. The service supports a diverse and remote population. Improving health equity, strengthening partnerships with First Nations leaders and delivering culturally responsive healthcare are central to the organisation’s future direction and strategic priorities.

What Success Looks Like

• Build a high-performance culture with clear accountability and strong team development
• Strengthen financial discipline, reporting and decision-making.
• Lead transformation initiatives to simplify processes and build stronger systems and structures.
• Build trusted executive, clinical and stakeholder partnerships.
• Deliver measurable uplift in capability, culture and organisational performance.

About You
You are a pragmatic and relationship-driven executive leader with the resilience, stamina and judgement to perform in a complex regional environment.

You operate in a hands-on, grounded way across both strategic and operational priorities, with a demonstrated ability to build trust, simplify complexity and drive accountability while developing others.

You are a team-first leader who values honesty and transparency, with a proven track record of making sound decisions, navigating ambiguity and leading through change and transformation.

You will bring:

• Demonstrated senior leadership experience within large, complex or operationally diverse organisations.
• Strong financial management capability, including budgeting, reporting and commercial acumen.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams through change, improvement or transformation.
• The ability to build trusted relationships and credibility across diverse stakeholder groups.
• A practical, solutions-focused leadership style with a willingness to be hands-on.
• Strong judgement, communication and decision-making capability.
• Experience within healthcare, government or similarly complex environments (highly regarded).
• Exposure to activity-based funding and block funding models (advantageous).

This role will suit a proven CFO who is looking to step into a broader enterprise-level remit.

Remuneration and Benefits
The role offers an attractive executive remuneration package within the HES framework, together with superannuation and a range of additional benefits.
Additional benefits may include:

• Subsidised accommodation support
• Salary packaging and sacrifice arrangements
• Long-term contract stability with an initial three-year appointment and potential extension options

Mount Isa offers a unique regional lifestyle with a strong sense of community, affordable living, minimal commute times and the opportunity to make a genuine impact where leadership matters.

For a confidential discussion about this opportunity please contact:
James Muller, General Manager – C3Talent on 0431 046 ***.

How to Apply
Applications should include:

• A current CV
  • A one-page cover letter outlining your suitability for the role

Applications should be submitted by 5pm, 3 July 2026.