Director, Group Finance (Funding, Payment Model, IT)

NHG Health; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

NHG Health in Singapore seeks a Director of Group Finance to lead funding, payment models, and IT financial transformation across the cluster. You will drive Mission-Based Budgeting and ensure alignment with national healthcare financing priorities, delivering sustainable financial strategies for population health initiatives.

The role requires deep experience in healthcare financing, stakeholder engagement with MOH, and a track record of enterprise-wide finance transformations.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience, with exposure to financial planning, large-scale transformation, and healthcare financing.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide finance initiatives across institutions.
• Strong analytical, forecasting and budgeting capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Mission-Based Budgeting implementation as the cluster's core resource framework.
• Design headcount funding, budgeting, consolidation and reporting capabilities.
• Develop executive dashboards and governance frameworks for financial management.
• Lead MOH engagement on capitation funding and subvention models; translate policy into financial frameworks.
• Oversee funding and payment models, automation of computations and integration into budgeting and reporting.
• Develop sustainable funding for Population Health and Integrated Care initiatives.
• Plan IT finance transformation and establish cluster-wide IT financial governance and reporting.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Financial modeling

Scenario analysis

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related discipline

Job description

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Director, Group Finance (Funding, Payment Model, IT)

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Director, Group Finance (Funding, Payment Model, IT)

This role reports to the Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO) and is responsible for leading funding, provider payment models, and financial systems transformation across the cluster.

Job Purpose

To oversee the development, implementation and evaluation of funding and payor payment models to promote right-siting of care to support population health management and care transformation, ensuring long term financial sustainability and alignment with national healthcare financing priorities. The role drives the design and implementation of mission-based budgeting, to better understand and allocate resources for the various missions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Enterprise Health Financing Transformation

• Own and drive the end-to-end implementation of Mission-Based Budgeting as the cluster’s core resource allocation and financial management framework
• Design and rollout:
• Headcount resourcing and funding allocation models
• Enterprise-wide budgeting, consolidation and reporting capabilities
• Specialty P&L structures
• Develop executive dashboards and management reporting to support timely, insight-driven leadership decisions
• Establish governance, data standards and accountability frameworks to enable consistent financial management across institutions

2. Funding Strategy, Policy Translation & MOH Engagement

• Lead engagement with MOH on:
• Capitation funding methodologies
• Transfer payments and subvention frameworks
• New and evolving healthcare financing models
• Translate national healthcare policies into actionable financial frameworks for the cluster
• Shape and refine funding approaches to ensure alignment with:
• Policy intent
• Operational realities
• Financial sustainability objectives
• Advise management on funding implications, trade-offs and strategic scenarios
• Oversee the design, implementation and governance of payment models (e.g. Full Acute Bundle and other integrated care models)
• Ensure funding and payment structures:
• Support care integration and care shift
• Align incentives with organisational outcomes and performance frameworks
• Oversee:
• Automation and stabilisation of payment computations
• Integration into budgeting, accruals and financial reporting
• Drive simplification and standardisation of funding models to ensure operational usability across institutions

4. Population Health & Integrated Care Financing

• Develop sustainable funding models for Population Health and Integrated Care initiatives
• Ensure continuity and transition of funding from pilot programmes to mainstream structures for successful pilots.
• Partner with clinical, operational and policy stakeholders to align financing with care delivery outcomes
• Provide financial governance and oversight for strategic initiatives

5. IT Financial Transformation, Governance & Enterprise Reporting

• Plan and lead IT finance transformation and adoption to better leverage on technology to drive insights and improve productivity;
• Cluster finance representative for strategic IT planning, defining investment budgets based on cluster affordability and alignment with strategic directions;
• Cluster finance representative for projects carried out at the cluster and national levels. Provide oversight in budgeting, cost reasonableness, business case reviews, cost monitoring and cost allocation matters, price book computations, key performance indicators and post implementation review of digital health projects;
• Establish and lead cluster-wide IT financial governance frameworks
• Develop integrated IT financial reporting and analytics across Group Finance, GCIO and institutions
• Harmonise financial data and reporting standards to ensure consistency, transparency and decision-usefulness

Job Requirements

Education & Experience

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related discipline
• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience, with strong exposure to:
• Financial planning & analysis
• Large-scale finance transformation or system implementation
• Healthcare or public sector financing (preferred)

Core Competencies

• Strategic and systems thinking, with ability to translate policy into scalable financial frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including financial modeling, scenario analysis and business case formation to provide insights for decision making;
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and enterprise systems

Leadership & Personal Attributes

• Proven ability to lead enterprise-wide initiatives across multiple stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management, including senior leadership and government agencies
• Excellent communication and writing skills with ability to distill complex concepts clearly
• High ownership, resilience and ability to operate in ambiguity
• Strong execution discipline with ability to deliver under tight timelines