Job Description:

Cost Controller

Hybrid working with up to 4 days per week working from home

Salford Quays, Manchester

Permanent

Salary £36K - £40K per annum

Fantastic benefits including healthcare and very generous pension scheme

Full time 37.5 hours per week

We make health happen

Working in our UK support functions you'll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you'll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

As our Cost Controller you'll play a pivotal part in reporting on our costs, supporting and improving our service and will work closely with our business partners to ensure costs are thoroughly understood and tightly controlled.

How you'll help us make health happen:

• Ensure the provision of consistent and accurate information to the business in respect of all functional costs.

• Ensure that all costs are accurately captured in the correct cost centres & projects.

• Assist in the continual development and improvement of the reporting of the costs to the appropriate business managers.

• Produce monthly reports to the functional directorates and senior managers to strict deadlines. These reports should highlight and explain any material variances between actuals and the appropriate re-forecast and AOP.

• In relation to costs that are recharged ensure sufficient information is provided to enable the receiver of the recharge to make informed decisions about the costs they are accountable for.

• At year end and half-year end report on all significant accruals in relation to cost base and provide supporting evidence and explanations to both financial accounts and the external auditors in relation to these accruals.

• Proactively seek process improvements to improve the accuracy and efficiency of month end processes to meet tight Corporate Centre and Bupa UK Deadlines.

• Develop a detailed understanding of all the costs within the functional areas, enabling full explanation of costs to be communicated effectively to stakeholders.

• Provide support and advice to influence the functions and department heads based on the information produced to enable them to make effective business decisions.

• Produce re-forecasts and AOPs for all of the cost centres in accordance with Corporate Centre and Bupa UK timetables and targets. This involves active liaison with functional directorates and department heads ensuring that they take ownership of their AOPs and re-forecasts.

• Take information from the Project Office and work with the functional directorates and heads to decide which part of the business/cost centres these strategic challenges impact and build these in to their Forecasts/AOPs

• Proactively identify areas for potential savings and create and fulfil ways of bringing about actions to realise these savings through varied methods of presentation.

• Assisting with the management and challenge of the AOP, 3YP and quarterly forecast processes including preparing output documents in the form of financial templates and storyboards.

• Updating the overall forecast project plan and proactively highlighting interdependencies and key milestones.

• Promote Bupa UK strategy through the business.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• The successful candidate is likely to be part-qualified or have the equivalent level of experience within a finance environment.

• The jobholder will be expected to pursue a significant programme of personal development.

• Must be analytically and numerically minded.

• Advanced PC skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and accountancy software.

• Excellent Customer service skills, including communication, management of expectation, recommendations, quality of outputs etc.

• The jobholder will be expected to proactively build and maintain relationships with customers throughout the Company.

• Quick to learn and responsive to the needs of the business.

• Proactive with a ‘can do' approach.

• The successful candidate will have good commercial skills and the ability to adapt to new environment quickly.

• Proven ability to work under pressure and meet stretching and tight deadlines.

• Some project experience would be desirable.

• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills.

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

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