Finance & Administration Manager Job Atlantis South Africa,Management

Location: Atlantis

Function Finance/Administration Facility Position Finance & Administration Manager Introduction

A vacancy exists for Finance and Administration Manager based at Life St Georges Hospital
, reporting to Reshma Vanmali
, Hospital Manager
. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the finance function for Life St Georges Hospital and all its entities (Life Hunterscraig and Life PE laundry) in line with accounting standards and within corporate governance protocols in support of Life Healthcare objectives and strategy.

Critical Outputs

Effective people management

Demonstrate visible leadership in respect of Life values, operating model and strategy.

Actively sponsor Life initiatives and projects as it relates to hospital.

Actively participate in hospital MANCO meetings, regional Shaka, RSRT meetings and forums

Actively lead and manage F&A and HOD feedback meetings and ensure participation from all parties to achieve strategic objectives

Recruit, retain, motivate and develop staff according to Life people policies and practices. Accurate financial reporting & analysis

Responsibility for managing general ledger close and people and processes to adhere to reporting deadlines

Prepare variance to budget as compared to prior year analysis, report on hospital performance, identify problem areas and take remedial action with staff and Enabling functions as required

Support to Hospital, Nursing and Pharmacy Manager with regard to financial analysis and reporting including but not limited to employee costs and stock control

Prepares high‑quality board packs and presents recommendations and analysis to the Board.

Effective budgeting

Participate in hospital strategic planning to identify capex projects, developing financial models for proposed plans with local management and enabling functions and assist hospital manager in developing a motivations for capex projects

Develop operating budget, ensure final budget presented matches approved parameters, ensure sign off of budget by management and communicate approved budget to all units

Ensure final working capital budget presented reflects the requirements of the operating budget, ensure sign off by management and communicate approved budget to all units

Effective management of controls

Prepare annual review checklists and manage the internal control environment within the hospital

Co-ordinate Internal and External audits and achieve Green Internal Audit Ratings and External Audit reports that contain no financial issues more serious than “housekeeping” matters

Establish and maintain a strong financial control environment, managing the control of company assets

Effective patient services management

Ensure all credit management targets are met internal and external debtors’ days etc.)

Manage and minimize risk and achieve LHC targets regarding rejections, bad debts, case management write offs and reimbursement codes

Oversee pre-admission trends with relevant manager and manage appropriately

Identify problems and take remedial actions with relevant stakeholder’s Effective governance and risk management

Manage compliance to the executive constraints per corporate governance, report deviations and take action where necessary

Take ownership for statutory and secretarial compliance.

Effective quality management and customer relations

Achieve and improve quality metrics, continuously monitor and measure processes to maintain and approve same and actively lead and promote LHC quality drive

Manage data integrity and compliance to LHC protocols

Develop and maintain relationships with various internal and external stakeholders, conduct feedback surveys in order to monitor relationships and service levels, identify trends and implement remedial actions

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting or similar

Completed articles.

CA (SA) advantageous

Relevant experience, preferably commercial management in a services environment

Ability to learn industry specifics related healthcare terminology.

Computer proficiency (incl MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Must be able to work under pressure in a continuously changing environment

Competencies

Problem-solving, analysis and judgement

Attention to detail

Resilience

Engaging diversity

Verbal & written communication skills

Influencing

Action orientation

Building relationships

Customer responsiveness

Organisational awareness

Excellence orientation

Ethical behaviour

Lead by example

Motivating and developing people