Financial Accountant

Function

Finance/Administration

Facility

Life Eugene Marais Hospital

Position

Financial Accountant

Introduction

A vacancy exists for a Financial Accountant, based at Life Eugene Marais, reporting to the Finance and Admin Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for performance and management of accounting processes to achieve compliance, standardisation and efficiency in the function.

Critical Outputs

• Assistance to the Finance and Administration Manager to maintain the strong financial control environment and enhance corporate governance practices.
• Assistance in coordinating Internal and External audits and achieving Green Internal Audit Ratings and External Audit reports that contain no financial issues other than "housekeeping" matters.
• Assistance to the Finance and Administration Manager in reviewing the monthly trial balance, with focus on material transactions including balance sheet reconciliations and identify anomalies, queries and errors for timeous follow-up with FSC to avoid old unresolved accounting issues.
• Monitor overheads and manage the control thereof through liaison with the hospital management team.
• Prepare & submit quarterly Bad Debt and Stock templates, summaries and explanations, and other similar returns.
• Assist in monitoring spend on Doctor support.
• Prepare seed funding projects reconciliations.
• Prepare lease templates for new doctors.
• Support to the business
• Projects
• Assist with driving financial projects
• Assist with periodic financial and related reports for management of the business, including, but not limited to:
• Monthly analysis of hospital results and reporting (incl. activities, key financial ratios and items below the operating EBITDA line), measuring against approved budget and prior year.
• Understand revenue mix, RSRT's/DRG's and the resultant analysis and action plans required.
• Formal periodic review of results with the hospital Manco team to ensure functional managers understand the financial position of the hospital and matters for which they are accountable for.
• Continual review of the balance sheet to monitor recoverability of assets and completeness of liabilities.
• Capex reporting
• Budget:
• Assist with the preparation and review of budgets (activity, stats, capex, income statement, balance sheet, cashflow, trending), in line with approved regional activity assumptions, hospital strategic plan and group budget guidelines.
• Sensible trending of the monthly budget with appropriate reasoning and logic on each major income and expense category
• Prepare of budget reports for reviews
• Ad-hoc analysis, reports, and investigations flowing from the budget
• Ad hoc projects involving management information and reporting.
• Compile comparison and trending recons per Management request.

Requirements

• A University Degree, B Com graduate or equivalent is preferred, but relevant experience will be considered
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is critical with advanced Excel Skills
• SAP experience an advantage
• High performance orientation, independence as well as a team player, functional proficiency, initiative and an ability to meet deadlines is essential for this position as is attention to detail and good communication

Competencies

• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation
• Influencing
• Drive & energy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness

Email

Zaanri.Keys@lifehealthcare.co.za

Closing date

Tuesday, March 24, 2026