Rodney Brady has served the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific as an accountant, treasurer and chief financial officer. He is married to Kathryn and has two children. He began serving as the church's chief financial officer in 2000.

Mr Brady grew up in Melbourne, Victoria. He worked for a time with the Bank of New South Wales and, after leaving school, studied accounting part-time at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He then attended Avondale College, the church's Cooranbong, New South Wales-based tertiary institution, completing a diploma in business.

Mr Brady received a postgraduate diploma in accounting in 1987 from the then Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education, and a Master of Arts in leadership and management from Avondale in 2001. He is a member of CPA Australia and of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

The church called Mr Brady to serve as an accountant in Victoria in 1980, in Tasmania in 1982, in North New Zealand in 1985 and in northern New South Wales in 1988. Mr Brady also managed the Adventist Book Centre in Tasmania for two-and-a-half years.

Mr Brady served as accountant for Adventist Media in 1989 and as financial controller for Signs Publishing Company, the church's Warburton, Victoria-based publishing house, from 1990.

The church called Mr Brady to serve as treasurer for its union mission in Suva, Fiji, four years later. He then returned to Victoria as treasurer in 1998.

This led to appointments as associate treasurer (1999) and chief financial officer (2000) for the church in the South Pacific. His current position enables Mr Brady to serve on boards, trusts and committees in a variety of capacities and in many countries.

Mr Brady's focus is to ensure the church makes the best use of its financial resources and assets to fulfil its mission.