Senior Assistant Manager, Finance

About the role

The new Tengah General and Community Hospitals in Tengah Forest Town, part of the NUHS cluster, is building a comprehensive health campus with emergency, inpatient, rehabilitative and outpatient specialist care, aiming to be ready by the early 2030s. As part of the multi-disciplinary Cluster/Site Finance team, you will join the pioneer team and help shape sustainable healthcare through hospital development, costing, pricing and finance systems.

Key responsibilities

• Hospital development and financial planning: collaborate with clinical, nursing, pharmacy, operations and project teams; provide financial analysis for strategic planning; support operating and capital budget planning and monitoring; assess major capex, equipment purchases and service contracts with partners.
• Finance processes: develop and implement finance policies and procedures, give hands-on guidance and oversee compliance, and learn best practices at other institutions.
• Business partnering: act as finance business partner to clinical, operational and project teams, advise departments, and liaise with clusters, government agencies and consultants.
• Costing and pricing: build the costing framework in line with the National Costing Guideline, design costing methodologies, set up service pricing, benchmark and analyse costs at service line and patient level.
• Finance systems: support design, implementation and testing of finance IT systems, work with users, IT and vendors, and use automation and AI to improve processes.

Required profile

• Good degree in Business, Accountancy, Economics or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of relevant finance experience.
• Experience in hospital operations, healthcare financing, costing or pricing is highly advantageous.
• Strong logical, analytical and process-flow skills, and ability to turn clinical and operational needs into financial recommendations.
• Proven project management skills and strong stakeholder collaboration.
• Self-driven, inquisitive, meticulous, adaptable and resilient, with leadership potential.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced Excel, Macros, PowerPoint and Word.
• Proven capability with finance systems is an added advantage.