Financial Planning & Analysis Sr. Manager

Makati Life Nurture Medical Center Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 4,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Makati Life Nurture Medical Center Inc. seeks a Head of Financial Planning, Analysis and System to lead financial architecture, build models and data systems that drive strategic decision-making across the hospital.

You will partner with executive leadership and department heads to translate strategy into actionable plans, oversee budgeting and forecasting processes, and ensure reliable, integrated planning systems to support sustainable growth and clinical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-year integrated financial statements that translate high-level corporate strategy into quantifiable targets
• Convert operational plans into financial targets, ensuring department activities drive the desired bottom-line impact
• Design, build and maintain financial models to evaluate new market entries, opportunities, capital allocations and new services launches
• Serve as a strategic business partner to department heads, delivering targeted financial insights and analytics required to optimize operational performance
• Monitor the financial health of key strategic initiatives, providing transparent reporting on spend vs. progress to ensure investments are yielding projected financial returns
• Act as strategic advisor to analyze performance trends against strategic objectives to provide leadership with proactive insights and data-driven course corrections
• Oversee the planning, implementation, and optimization of corporate planning, performance, and reporting systems
• Ensure integration of enterprise systems to support strategic planning, monitoring, and decision-making
• Lead initiatives to streamline and standardize planning, reporting, and data management processes
• Collaborate with IT and functional units to ensure system reliability, data integrity, and usability.
• Provide strategic financial guidance and advisory support to executive leadership and department heads.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to ensure effective strategy execution and system adoption.
• Ensure financial planning and systems processes comply with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in planning methodologies, performance tracking, and system capabilities.
• Benchmark organizational practices against industry standards and emerging trends.
• Build and maintain the hospital's annual operating budget, capital expenditure (CAPEX) budget, and multi-year financial plans.
• Develop budgeting assumptions specific to hospital operations, including patient volumes, case mix index, bed occupancy rates, staffing models, and service line utilizations.
• Review and challenge budget submissions from clinical departments (e.g., Nursing, Medical Services, Ancillary Units) and non-clinical support functions to ensure alignment with hospital priorities and financial targets.
• Orchestrate the technical flow of budget data from clinical sub-plans into the consolidated financial model, ensuring seamless integration and mathematical accuracy.
• Oversee the preparation of monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts reflecting actual patient census, revenue performance, and cost trends.
• Develop financial models to assess the impact of changes in patient volume, physician mix, clinical staffing levels, pricing, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct variance analysis between actual results, budgets, and forecasts; identify operational drivers and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare scenario-based forecasts to support decisions related to service expansions, bed capacity planning, equipment acquisition, and staffing requirements.

Job description

About the role

The Head of Financial Planning, Analysis and System serves as organizational lead for financial architecture, responsible for building financial models and data systems that strengthen strategic decision-making. Rather than managing the administrative governance of the planning cycle, the FPA and System Head focuses on technical integration of corporate strategy, operational drivers and digital infrastructure. The Head works closely with executive leadership, corporate planning and department heads to translate strategic goals into actionable plans, measurable outcomes, and integrated systems.

Key responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning and Financial Modeling

• Build multi-year integrated financial statements that translate high-level corporate strategy into quantifiable targets

• Convert operational plans into financial targets, ensuring department activities drive the desired bottom-line impact

• Design, build and maintain financial models to evaluate new market entries, opportunities, capital allocations and new services launches

2. Performance Management

• Serve as a strategic business partner to department heads, delivering targeted financial insights and analytics required to optimize operational performance

• Monitor the financial health of key strategic initiatives, providing transparent reporting on spend vs. progress to ensure investments are yielding projected financial returns

• Act as strategic advisor to analyze performance trends against strategic objectives to provide leadership with proactive insights and data-driven course corrections

3. Systems & Process Management

• Oversee the planning, implementation, and optimization of corporate planning, performance, and reporting systems

• Ensure integration of enterprise systems to support strategic planning, monitoring, and decision-making

• Lead initiatives to streamline and standardize planning, reporting, and data management processes

• Collaborate with IT and functional units to ensure system reliability, data integrity, and usability.

4. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Provide strategic financial guidance and advisory support to executive leadership and department heads.

• Foster cross-functional collaboration to ensure effective strategy execution and system adoption.

5. Compliance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure financial planning and systems processes comply with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in planning methodologies, performance tracking, and system capabilities.

• Benchmark organizational practices against industry standards and emerging trends.

6. Hospital Budgeting

• Build and maintain the hospital's annual operating budget, capital expenditure (CAPEX) budget, and multi-year financial plans.

• Develop budgeting assumptions specific to hospital operations, including patient volumes, case mix index, bed occupancy rates, staffing models, and service line utilizations.

• Review and challenge budget submissions from clinical departments (e.g., Nursing, Medical Services, Ancillary Units) and non-clinical support functions to ensure alignment with hospital priorities and financial targets.

• Orchestrate the technical flow of budget data from clinical sub-plans into the consolidated financial model, ensuring seamless integration and mathematical accuracy.

7. Forecasting and Financial Planning

• Oversee the preparation of monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts reflecting actual patient census, revenue performance, and cost trends.

• Develop financial models to assess the impact of changes in patient volume, physician mix, clinical staffing levels, pricing, and regulatory requirements.

• Conduct variance analysis between actual results, budgets, and forecasts; identify operational drivers and recommend corrective actions.

• Prepare scenario-based forecasts to support decisions related to service expansions, bed capacity planning, equipment acquisition, and staffing requirements.