Description
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Function: Finance / Accounting / Audit
Job Type: Full Time
About the Role
Rose Avenue Consulting Group is a financial management, strategy and consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in corporate finance, strategy and research. Together with our clients and partnering companies we address our client’s most critical issues and challenges.
We are seeking a Chief Finance Officer to lead financial strategy aligned to the Hospital’s strategic plan, advise the CEO and Board on strategic, commercial and investment decisions, and lead capital allocation, mergers, partnerships, expansion and major investments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead financial strategy aligned to the Hospital’s strategic plan.
- Advise the CEO and Board on strategic, commercial and investment decisions.
- Lead capital allocation, mergers, partnerships, expansion and major investments.
- Provide forward-looking financial analysis and scenario planning.
- Develop business cases for strategic initiatives.
- Support Board decision-making through predictive analytics and commercial insights.
- Identify emerging risks and opportunities.
- Maintain productive relationships with the Board, regulators, auditors, banks, insurers, development partners and key external stakeholders.
- Lead Hospital-wide enterprise performance management framework.
- Develop Executive and Board KPI dashboards integrating financial, operational and clinical performance.
- Monitor strategic initiatives and organizational performance.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, IFRS reporting and Board reporting.
- Oversee multi-entity consolidation for the Hospital, Nursing College and Heart to Heart Foundation.
- Ensure effective donor and grant accounting and robust internal controls.
- Manage treasury, liquidity, banking, borrowing and investments.
- Lead capital project evaluation and financing.
- Drive costing, pricing and profitability by service line and department.
- Lead revenue cycle management, SHA/private payer relationships and receivables optimization.
- Provide executive leadership for enterprise technology strategy where ICT reports to the CFO.
- Champion ERP optimization, Business Intelligence, enterprise analytics and AI-enabled decision support.
- Drive integration of clinical, financial and operational information systems.
- Strengthen cybersecurity governance, technology risk management and digital resilience.
- Evaluate technology investments and promote innovation.
- Lead enterprise financial governance, statutory compliance, risk management and fraud prevention.
- Support the Audit Committee and oversee remediation of audit findings.
- Oversee the Group’s tax risk management.
- Develop a sustainable, high-performing finance organization.
- Implement succession planning for critical finance roles.
- Promote continuous professional development, coaching, mentoring and leadership development.
- Foster innovation, accountability and ethical leadership.
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or Economics.
- MBA or Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or related field.
- CPA(K) with current ICPAK membership. ACCA, ACA, CIMA and/or CFA are preferred.
- Minimum 15 years’ progressive finance leadership with at least 7 years in executive leadership.
- Healthcare finance, digital transformation, treasury and Board reporting experience strongly preferred.
Core Competencies
- Strategic leadership with commercial acumen
- Strong Enterprise performance management and corporate governance
- Technology leadership and Business Intelligence
- Financial modelling in Healthcare finance
- Stakeholder engagement and Executive communication
- Change leadership
Application
Interested and qualified candidates should apply through the Rose Avenue Group portal:
Application Link: https://racg.co.ke
Application Deadline: September 2, 2026
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