Job Description:
Finance Business Partner
Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP) or Kirkstall Forge (Leeds, LS5 3BF) or Angel Court (London, EC2R 7HJ)
Hybrid Working
FTC 12 months
Salary starting at £55,000 per annum (Dependent on experience)
Advert closes Tuesday 6th May 2025
We Make Health Happen
At Bupa, our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting our mission by providing finance support to the BGIUK Executive Team and the Finance Leadership Team. You will ensure that our functional costs are fully understood and managed effectively, contributing to the overall financial health of our organisation. This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a team that is dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives through our healthcare services.
How you'll help us make health happen
Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and customers, acting as a true partner to the Functional leadership team.
Provide Exec level commentary and insightful MI across functional finances, including monthly flash, ELOS, and functional/cost centre reporting.
Engage with relevant teams to support and deliver actuals, forecast, plan, or modelling activities.
Provide commercial support and challenge proposed activities with alternative proposals by ensuring budget holders have relevant information required to make decisions and automate data provision where possible.
Ensure appropriate financial control for one or several Functions/Cost centres within the BGIUK functional cost base.
Key Skills/Qualifications required for this role
Professional accountancy qualification (ICAEW, ACCA, or CIMA or equivalent) is required
Business Partnering experience to an Executive team (ET) and ET-1 level with confidence to present analytics and options, robustly challenge, holds an inquisitive mindset and strong understanding of corporate functions is essential
Strong financial modelling and investment appraisal skills.
Experience with complex recharge/service fee models.
Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
Ability to work under significant pressure and handle multiple priorities.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
Finance & AccountingLocations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.
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