Lease Finance Manager at Netcare

• The Lease Finance Manager will be responsible for the entire Group Billing and Expense lease Management on SAPRE. Overseeing the Lease administrators and Accountant (If applicable).The Lease Finance Manager will also be responsible for the monthly leasing report which is presented to Executives monthly within the Property Commercial Division.

KEY WORK OUTPUT AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Group Lease Billing /Expense Management

• Ensure Compliancy with commercial and group policies and procedures.
• Evaluate financial processes and implement corrective action to ensure standardisation within the group.
• Provide Support to Corporate Real Estate Service Manager and Commercial Manager 
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, amendments, and related information.
• Ensure that lease management systems are effective and up to date.
• Ensure ongoing synergy and communication flow from commercial to all relevant stakeholders impacted by centralised billing/expense processes.
• Accountable for ensuring data accuracy on SAP/RE
• Ensure Cash Flow approval is obtained prior to finalisation of billing process.
• Facilitate the final billing distribution of invoices to tenants.
• Logging workflow and creating change forms;
• Accountable for timeous and accurate distribution of monthly group billing.
• Accountable for Sigma Logs ensuring that all requests are analysed, processed accurately and closed timeously.
• Ensure ongoing awareness toward leasing activity to ensure continuous completeness and accuracy of billing data base.
• Monitor debtors’ control on SAP enabling debtors support to hospitals by resolving billing queries accurately and timeously.  
• Vet third party lease invoices timeously to ensure compliancy with signed leased agreements.
• Analysis of IFRS16 Valuation.
• Present Value calculations.
• Analysis of the payment clearing related to query resolution.
• Oversee and Facilitate Intercompany accounts assessment and validation.
• Loading and assessment of conditions related to rates and taxes and utilities on the OWNED,  LOIN AND LSIN contracts;
• Intercompany accounts assessment and validation;
• Assessment and validation of LOEX contracts;
• Analysis of discrepancies between rental charged and lease agreement;
• Liaising, coordinating, recording, and executing various IFRS16 requirements with all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure and maintain communication of new or updated lease information to the respective group stakeholders.
• Assist with Group Finance IFRS16 special requirements as and when they arise.
• Preparation of CSA documents for audit review and managing control queries with internal and external audit on any SAPRE data.

Reporting and General

• Prepare detailed monthly billing report packs on income and expense leases.
• Analyse group billing and recommend billing efficiencies based on report analysis.
• Ensure ongoing data accuracy and completeness on SAP Real Estate
• Draft lease recovery agreements and amortisation schedules.
• Analyse and investigate billing variances and prepare reports.
• Extract Group debtors reports and circulate monthly to relevant stakeholders.
• Oversee centralisation projects on SAP/RE related to billing efficiency.
• Manage IFRS16 Audit queries with internal and external auditors.
• Maintain and strengthen internal controls ensuring CSA Compliancy
• Optimise staff management by providing ongoing training, guidance and support in line with HR Policies and Procedures

External Customer Liaison

• Manage all complaints and queries (tenants /hospitals).
• Be a model of excellent customer service, ensuring that all customers experience an excellent and satisfactory interaction at all time
• Listen with empathy while always remaining professional to complaints and compliments
• Supervise customer relations and customer service and complaint investigations.
• Predict crisis intervention and deal with problems and intervene pro-actively to prevent complaints
• Build strategic inter-departmental relationships to help achieve business goals.
• Promote sound staff and stakeholder relationships.
• Liaise with external and internal auditors.
• Facilitate team and client meetings effectively.

People Management and Development

• Create an environment where staff are aware of the role they play in the provision of quality nursing care and their value to the organization.
• Assign decision making, authority, tasks and responsibility to appropriate persons in order to maximize organisation and employee effectiveness.
• Promote a committed and optimistic attitude to encourage others to excel in their environment and to affect overall success in achieving central goals.
• Develop a talented workforce.
• Facilitate a culture that is supportive of talent management and the initiation of required implementations to hone talent.
• Facilitate effective change and conflict management.
• Ensure professional conduct and appearance of staff.
• Manage the performance and delivery of all direct report.

EDUCATION

• BCom Accounting
• Grade 12 or equivalent NQF level 4 qualification

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Experience with SAP FI and SAP R/E
• Working knowledge of IFRS16
• Account management experience
• Customer Service / Liaison experience
• Ability to work under pressure and in a deadline driven environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Accounts receivable and Accounts Payable

KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Relevant computer proficiency (Microsoft Office); with specific advanced aptitude in MS Excel; MS Word 2010 and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Deadline:3rd March,2026