Manager, Financial Accounting/Planning

About the role

This position leads the financial accounting and planning function for a large hospital, focusing on cost management, pricing, and financial analysis. The manager acts as a finance business partner to clinical and operational teams, providing insights that support strategic decision‑making.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the National Costing Exercise (NCE) and related submissions to ensure compliance with national guidelines.
• Serve as a Finance Business Partner to clinical and operational stakeholders, delivering financial insights for decision‑making.
• Perform costing, pricing, and financial analysis for healthcare services, programmes, and initiatives.
• Support evaluation of capital expenditure requests, business cases, and strategic projects.
• Manage and maintain SAP Controlling (CO) master data and costing configurations.
• Partner with IT consultants and vendors on implementation, enhancement, testing, and maintenance of costing systems.
• Analyse cost drivers, utilisation trends, and operational performance to identify improvement opportunities.
• Provide ad‑hoc financial analysis, reporting, and support for finance‑related initiatives.

Required profile

• Degree in Accountancy, Finance, Business, Economics or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Experience working with large datasets, financial models and system implementation projects.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and communicate effectively across clinical, operational and technical teams.

Required skills

• SAP (Controlling module)