Assistant Director, Finance

Overview

As a strong people manager and developer, the Assistant Director will lead a team of qualified professionals and play a key leadership role in safeguarding the hospital's financial sustainability and enabling high-quality, patient-centred care. Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will lead financial planning, controllership, governance, and performance insights that support sound decision-making across a complex public healthcare environment.

This is an opportunity for a seasoned finance professional to shape financial stewardship at institutional level, partner senior clinical and operational leaders, and drive meaningful improvements in reporting, controls, shared services delivery, and resource optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Financial Planning: Lead the annual OPEX and CAPEX budgeting cycle across clinical and non-clinical departments, ensuring resources are aligned to institutional priorities and service needs.
• Funding & Sustainability: Manage grants, subventions, and ministry funding allocations, with a strong understanding of public healthcare funding frameworks and long-term financial sustainability.
• Performance Insights: Drive regular financial reviews with department heads, translating variance analysis into practical insights, cost optimisation opportunities, and timely management actions.
• Financial Reporting Excellence: Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities to ensure accurate, timely, and reliable financial statements for management and statutory reporting.
• Cash Flow Management: Oversee working capital, cash flow forecasting, and fund management to ensure optimal liquidity for hospital operations.
• Capital Asset Stewardship: Manage the asset lifecycle for significant investments in medical equipment, facilities, and healthcare technology, ensuring proper tracking, governance, and value realisation.
• Governance Leadership: Ensure compliance with public sector financial regulations, statutory reporting requirements, accounting standards, and institutional policies.
• Internal Controls: Maintain, review, and upgrade the internal control framework to safeguard hospital assets and prevent financial irregularities.
• Audit Management: Act as the primary liaison for both internal and statutory external audits, ensuring timely resolution of audit findings and implementation of recommendations.
• Responsible for the governance and controls over financial reporting and works closely with internal and external auditors. Implement effective internal financial reporting control initiatives.
• SLA Governance: Manage the relationship with the external shared services provider responsible for transactional accounting functions (procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report).
• Performance Monitoring: Conduct regular performance reviews against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), resolving bottleneck issues and driving continuous process improvements.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Finance, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive financial management experience, with at least 5 years in a managerial or leadership capacity.
• Prior experience in public healthcare, statutory boards, or a highly regulated public sector environment is advantageous.
• Proficiency in enterprise-grade ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and advanced financial modelling techniques.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence senior clinical stakeholders and articulate financial concepts to non-finance teams.
• Highly analytical mindset with a strong eye for detail, balanced with a macro-perspective on operational challenges.
• Pro-active, resourceful, able to take challenges, work independently or as a team.
• Self-starter that possesses initiative and takes on accountability
• Able to multi-task with ability to navigate in a dynamic fast paced environment