(Senior) Assistant Manager, Finance

Overview:

This role will manage costing and charging functions to ensure accurate, transparent, and sustainable pricing for healthcare services. This role supports NUH’s mission to deliver value-based care by instilling cost discipline, enhancing efficiency, and driving harmonised charging practices in alignment with MOH guidelines.

Job Responsibilities:

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

• Change Management:
  • Review and recommend charge code creation in accordance with NUH's master data framework.
  • Perform regular fee benchmarking against industry and MOH standards.
  • Prepare fee revision recommendations and supporting analysis in compliance with pricing policies..
  • Detect outliers in charging and address non-compliance issues promptly.
  • Maintain service and charge rules to comply with MOH and NUH policies

• Cost Management:
  • Perform regular cost benchmarking across service lines and departments, either as part of internal review or MOH National Costing Exercise.
  • Monitor cost and utilisation trends.
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through workload and cost analysis.

• Data Analysis and Insights:
  • Prepare reports and dashboards for management review and MOH submissions.
  • Collate, clean and organise billing and costing data for analysis.
  • Identify trends, patterns and anomalies in costs and charges.
  • Provide costing and charging advice for new services and strategic initiatives.

Secondary Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff (up to 2 direct reports).
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• Liaise with NUHS and MOH on ad-hoc data and analysis requests and clarification.
• Engage effectively with operational departments to gather requirements and explain costing/charging implications.
• Other ad-hoc projects or duties as assigned by Reporting Officer.

Job Requirements:

• Qualification:
  • Degree in Accountancy, Business, Statistics, IT or equivalent.
  • Professional certifications (e.g. SAP, data analytics) are advantageous, but not required.

• Experience:
  • At least five years of relevant working experience in finance, data analysis, or healthcare administration, preferably with exposure to healthcare or government reporting.

• Skills:
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools. Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables, complex formulas, and data modelling. Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) is a plus.
  • Experience with ERP systems and strong aptitude for learning new healthcare-specific platforms and adapting to evolving technology requirements.
  • Able to work independently, results-oriented, and self-motivated.
  • Good listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Willing to learn and impart knowledge.
  • Collaborative and a team player.
  • People management skills including mentoring junior staff and effectively engaging with stakeholders across all organisational levels.