Finance & Administration Manager

Life Healthcare
South Africa
Full-time
Posted 13 hours ago
Full-time Finance & Accounting
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Job Description

  • A vacancy exists for Finance & Administration Manager based at Life Kingsbury Hospital reporting to the Hospital Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the financial results of the business and all its entities (Life Sports Science Hospital and Life Peninsula Eye Hospital) 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
  • Actively sponsor Life initiatives and projects as it relates to the
  • 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 the 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
  • Provide support to Hospital, Nursing and Pharmacy Manager regarding financial analysis and reporting including but not limited to employee costs and stock control

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 the hospital manager developing 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 internal controls

  • Prepare annual review checklists and manage the internal control environment within the hospital Effective patient services management
  • Ensure all credit management targets are met (i.e. internal and external debtors’ days )
  • 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 in accordance with executive constraints per corporate governance, report deviations and act where necessary

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 according to LHC protocols
  • Develop and maintain relationships with various internal and external stakeholders, conduct feedback surveys to monitor relationships and service levels, identify trends and implement remedial actions

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting
  • Completed Articles
  • Charted accountant preferred
  • 3-5 years’ Relevant experience, preferably commercial management in a corporate services environment
  • Ability to learn industry specifics e. related healthcare terminology.
  • Computer proficiency
  • High-performance orientation, independence as well as a team player, functional proficiency, initiative and an ability to meet deadlines is essential for this position as is attention to detail and good communication
  • 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

Deadline:28th October,2026

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Job details
Job TypeFull-time
LocationSouth Africa
CategoryFinance & Accounting
Experience3+ years
Posted20 October 2026
Closing Date30 October 2026
Life Healthcare
South Africa

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