Job Title:
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – Growthpoint Healthcare Property Holdings (GHPH)
Purpose of the Job
To provide strategic financial leadership and stewardship across GHPH, its property portfolio, management companies and operating investments. The CFO is accountable for financial strategy, treasury, reporting, tax, governance, risk management, systems and financial control, and acts as a strategic partner to the Board, its committees, the Fund Manager and investors. The role supports sustainable income and NAV growth, disciplined capital allocation and the effective integration and oversight of acquisitions and operating businesses.
Key Performance Areas
Strategic & Commercial Leadership
- Partner with the Fund Manager and executive leadership to develop and execute GHPH’s long term financial and strategic plans aligned to income, NAV growth and investor returns.
- Evaluate and drive value enhancing opportunities across the income statement, balance sheet, and property portfolio.
- Lead financial evaluation into acquisitions, developments, disposals, restructures, and other strategic initiatives.
- Oversee the financial integration and post-investment performance monitoring of acquired assets and operating businesses.
- Develop and maintain robust financial models, business cases, and performance dashboards to support Board and investment decisions.
- Identify and implement operational and commercial improvement initiatives to enhance profitability, cash generation and capital efficiency.
Financial Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure strong financial governance, delegation of authority, internal controls, and risk management frameworks.
- Oversee compliance with IFRS, statutory requirements, tax legislation, and regulatory frameworks.
- Serve as a key contributor to Audit & Risk, Advisory, and Management Company Operations Committees.
- Manage relationships with external auditors, and advisors.
- Ensure that appropriate company secretarial support is in place and oversee compliance with statutory and governance requirements.
- Maintain an effective financial risk framework covering liquidity, interest rates, funding covenants, taxation, fraud, financial controls and business continuity.
- Oversee the financial aspects of the property valuation process and ensure consistency between valuations, forecasts, financing assumptions and external reporting.
- Monitor compliance with loan agreements, investor mandates, Board-approved policies and delegated authorities.
- Ensure that material financial and control risks are reported promptly to the appropriate governance structures.
Finance Function & Operations Oversight
- Lead all finance, accounting, treasury, and audit activities across the Fund and management companies.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, long term financial planning, and cash flow management, including liquidity forecasting.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly and quarterly management accounts, variance analysis, and reporting to EXCO, Board, and investors.
- Ensure optimal tax structuring and VAT treatment.
- Oversee payroll, fixed assets, capital expenditure accounting, and property level financial reporting.
- Drive the development, integration, and optimisation of financial systems and ERP platforms.
- Establish clear financial oversight and reporting standards for property assets, management companies, joint ventures and operating investments.
- Oversee rent, debtor and cash-collection reporting, including arrears, impairments and tenant credit risk.
- Maintain rolling liquidity, covenant and interest-rate forecasts and recommend appropriate funding and hedging strategies.
- Ensure effective financial controls over development expenditure, capital projects and major operating-business expenditure.
- Oversee finance-service arrangements with Growthpoint group functions and external service providers, including service levels and cost allocation.
Reporting & Investor Relations
- Prepare interim and annual financial statements.
- Lead the annual audit process and facilitate all requirements of the external audit team.
- Lead the preparation and quality assurance of financial information for Boards, committees, investors, lenders and other stakeholders.
- Support the Fund Manager in investor engagement and capital raising by providing accurate, consistent and decision-useful financial information, forecasts and models.
- Participate in investor and lender engagements on financial performance, funding, forecasts, governance and risk matters.
- Ensure consistency between statutory reporting, management reporting, investor communications and underlying financial records.
Digital Enablement & Continuous Improvement
- Develop and execute a finance technology and data roadmap covering ERP integration, reporting automation, data governance and business intelligence.
- Strengthen the integrity, consistency and accessibility of financial, property and operating-business data.
- Automate repetitive processes while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties, access controls and audit trails.
- Establish scalable finance processes capable of supporting portfolio growth, new entities and operating-business acquisitions.
Leadership & People Development
- Build, lead, and develop a high performing finance team through coaching, mentorship, and clear development pathways.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support succession planning and the development of a strong talent pipeline within finance and governance functions.
- Promote effective collaboration between finance, asset management, operations, investments, treasury and Growthpoint group functions.
Knowledge
- Deep understanding of property fund structures, capital markets, and regulatory environments.
Job Specific Skills
- Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting.
- Commercial evaluation of acquisitions and operating businesses.
- Property valuation and investment-return analysis.
- Tax and transaction-structuring capability.
- Strong financial modelling, data analytics, systems and business-intelligence capability.
- Ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly to non-financial decision-makers.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to translate strategy into execution.
- Advanced problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Competencies
- Strong leadership, influencing, and stakeholder engagement capability.
- High levels of integrity, accountability professional
- judgement, and governance orientation.
- Strategic and commercial thinking.
- Sound judgement and decision-making under pressure.
- Constructive challenge and professional independence.
- Ability to balance strong governance and risk discipline with commercial decision-making.
- Ability to operate effectively in a lean, hands-on executive environment.
Experience
- Minimum 10 years relevant post articles experience, with at least 6 years in senior financial leadership roles.
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in property, investment funds, infrastructure, or another asset-intensive operating environment
- Proven track record in financial strategy, treasury, IFRS reporting, governance, tax, audit and stakeholder management.
- Experience supporting acquisitions, due diligence, transaction structuring and post-acquisition integration.
- Experience engaging with Boards, audit and risk committees, investors, lenders and external auditors.
- Experience in regulated, high growth or complex operating environments is advantageous
- Exposure to REITs, unlisted funds, property valuations or healthcare operating businesses would be beneficial.
Education
- Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) qualification is essential
Internal Liaison
- Board of Directors and Board Sub-Committees
- Executive Committee
- Head of Fund Management, Fund Manager and Senior Leadership
- Finance, Treasury, and Operational Teams.
External Liaison
- Regulators
- External auditors
- Banks and Lenders
- Investors and Shareholders
- Industry Bodies (e.g. SA RIET Association)
Level of Decision Making
Strategic financial, governance, and policy decisions impacting the Fund’s performance, risk profile, and long-term sustainability.
Level of Problem Solving
Resolves complex, high-impact financial, funding, governance, transaction and operational matters involving incomplete information, competing stakeholder interests and material commercial or regulatory consequences. Applies independent judgement, scenario analysis and professional challenge, escalating matters where Board or shareholder approval is required.
