Job Description:
Trainee Commercial Accountant
Kirkstall Forge (Leeds LS5 3BF)
Hybrid working (minimum 2 days per week in the office)
Full time, Permanent
Salary £26,000 per annum plus fantastic Bupa benefits including study support
Advert closes 29th 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 Trainee Commercial Accountant in our Operations Finance team, you'll play a crucial role in supporting the financial aspects of our Care Services business unit. You'll be part of a team that ensures effective delivery of our strategic agenda and three-year plan in the most cost-effective way. This role is perfect for a recent graduate or someone looking to start their career in finance, with study support available for professional accountancy qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and deliver relevant and timely periodic reporting to enable management teams to understand commercial performance against key levers and KPIs.
Assist in understanding the performance of Care Homes and Villages, helping to identify levers to optimize performance, including coaching non-finance colleagues.
Proactively investigate variances in expected financial performance to identify root causes and inform the team.
Support commercial reviews of Care Homes/Villages and assist operational staff in managing commercial performance.
Act as a point of contact for operational management teams for finance and commercial matters.
Assist in the preparation, appraisal, and analysis of business cases submitted for capital and/or revenue investment.
Key skills/qualifications needed for this role
Previous experience or education within Finance is required
Willingness to undertake study towards a professional accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA), with study support available.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt style depending on stakeholders needs
Effective in building relationships with teams outside of the department
Flexible, objective, and pragmatic, able to work under 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:
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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