Finance Manager at Havana Specialist Hospital

Job Description
Administration/ Management:

• Strategic analysis and supporting strategic planning.
• Developing and managing financial systems/models that are in line with the overall strategic objective of HSH.
• Enforcing financial strategies and regulations.
• Processing all payments efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Review and recommend changes to existing accounting procedures.
• Devises and implements up-to-date or modified accounting systems to effectively provide complete and accurate records of hospital assets, liabilities and financial transactions.
• Evaluating accounting and patient accounting procedures for quality control and to plan methods for insuring timely receipt of payments on patient accounts, reducing costs of accounting operations, and ensuring timely and quality flow of work.

People Management:

• Managing finance, billing and accounting teams, and ensuring efficiency and accuracy in their workflows.
• Implementing measures for staff improvement in your department.
• Maintains adequate staff of qualified and competent personnel to satisfy departmental responsibilities.
• Plan and effect staff payments in time.

Budgeting and Reporting:

• Monitor and record financial transactions according to company policies and regulations.
• Preparing hospital operating and capital budgets based on past, current and anticipated expenditures and revenues as well as interpreting financial analysis, reports, budgets, accounts, and financial statements within the required time periods.
• Ensuring the compilation of relevant data and preparation of financial and operating reports for the effective administrative planning of hospital activities by management.
• Preparing detailed analyses of financial statements to reflect variances in income, expenditures and capital asset values from previous periods as well as generating financial reports and statements to managers, stakeholders and board members as required.
• Making appropriate and relevant recommendations to management concerning reduction in hospital operating costs and increasing revenues, based on knowledge of market trends, financial reports and industry operating procedure.

Qualifications and Experience

• Work experience: at least 5 years of professional experience involving the application of the principles of finance and accounting at a managerial or supervisory level.
• Education requirements: a degree in Accounting, BCOM / BBA /BSc (accounting or finance major) or their equivalent.
• Full membership of internationally recognized professional accounting body (ICAN, ACA, ACCA, CFA, CIMA).
• Principles and practices of organization, planning, records management and general administration.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office and an accounting software.
• Proficiency in different accounting packages like QuickBooks, sage pastel, and tally.
• Prior knowledge and experience in the medical field is an added advantage.