Overview
Group Finance Manager Jobs in Johannesburg Metropolitan Area at Crestcare
Title: Group Finance Manager
Company: Crestcare
Location: Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
Who we are and what we do:
Crestcare is a provider of end-to-end Hospital operating management services to acute and day hospitals, including Apex Soweto Day Hospital, Crestcare Zoutpansberg Hospital, Crestcare Malmesbury Hospital and Crestcare St Mary's Hospital.
Our big, motivating reason for being is:
To put people at the heart of healthcare. Excellent healthcare is a collective effort, and when you build an ecosystem that connects and empowers every member, you achieve the best outcomes, and everyone benefits.
How do we do it:
Creating innovative solutions that deliver sustainable value requires forward-thinking and a creative spirit. We fulfil our purpose by providing Exceptional private healthcare in unserved areas with an integrative, healthcare-centric approach. We strive to have an interconnected technology system and network to exchange knowledge and resources.
The Opportunity:
The Group Finance Manager is responsible for the end-to-end financial control, reporting, and operational finance delivery across the Crestcare group of hospitals. The role leads the standardisation and optimisation of financial processes across all Crestcare entities, manages two Regional Financial Managers, and provides accurate, timely financial insight to executive leadership.
The Talent we are looking for:
Would be able to use insightful judgement, sponsor a patient or member, inspire organisational execution and results, optimise Crestcare talent, support internal and external relationships, exemplify adaptability and think strategically.
Outcomes of the role
- Accurate and Timely Financial Reporting: Ensure consolidated group financial statements are prepared accurately and delivered within 10 business days after month-end.
- Analytical Performance Review: Analytical review of group EBITDA with insightful report on variances.
- Working Capital Optimisation: Collaborate with the Group Collections manager and the Group Pharmacy manager to reduce debtor’s days and stock holding days.
- Audit and Compliance Excellence: Achieve zero material audit findings at group level and ensure all audit actions are resolved within agreed timelines.
- Standardisation of Financial Practices: Implement a standardised chart of accounts, financial policies, and month-end reporting pack across all hospitals within 6 months.
- Payroll Accuracy and Compliance: Ensure 100% accurate and compliant payroll and benefits processing, maintaining an error rate of less than 0.5%.
- Finance Team Capability and Retention: Develop Regional Financial Managers to achieve performance ratings above 85% while maintaining low attrition within the finance team.
- Enhanced Management Reporting: Deliver improved financial reports and dashboards that support effective decision-making by Hospital Managers and the Executive Committee.
Talent, Ability, Skill, Knowledge, and Style
- Thought leadership: Combines information from a number of sources to assess choices and make effective decisions. Aligns work and goals to business and strategic priorities. Uses measures and business information to come to accurate conclusions by using sound judgement and decision making.
- Results leadership: Meets or exceeds goals and acts on opportunities to create value for the Company. Shows the initiative to exceed job requirements. Takes informed risks and faces high-stakes issues head on by being patient centred, execution and results with a planning and improvement approach.
- Personal leadership: Keeps a positive outlook and deals with the stress and challenge in all types of situations. Responds resourcefully to new challenges and demands. Resolves problems and overcomes obstacles to keep commitments. Models high levels of ethics and integrity, and treats others with fairness and respect with an approach to of adaptability and personal responsibility
- People leadership: Motivates others and helps them find ways to strengthen the organisation. Works to build cooperation and trust between teams, groups, and people. Interacts well with others and works to develop people and teams. Positions ideas and proposals in ways that get support from others by influence and communication, and leading talent.
Minimum qualifications:
- CA(SA) or equivalent professional accounting qualification strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field (postgraduate qualification advantageous)
- 10+ years’ progressive finance experience, with at least 5 years in senior multi-site or group financial leadership (healthcare experience strongly preferred)
- Experience with hospital finance, group consolidation, and working capital management.
- Proven experience implementing / managing ERP or hospital financial systems and financial reporting automation.
- Hands-on experience with audits (internal & external), tax, and regulatory compliance in South Africa.
- Demonstrated competency in preparing investor reporting packs.
Our Commitment to Diversity:
Diversity, inclusion and transformation is innate in who we are and how we approach our employment process.