Job Description:
Senior Finance Business Partner
Bupa Place, Salford Quays (M50 3SP)
Full time 37.5 hours
Permanent
Salary: from £68,000 per annum (DOE) + 10% performance-based bonus and fantastic Bupa Benefits
Advert closes Tuesday 24th February 2026
We make health happen
At Bupa, our purpose is simple: we help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. In this Senior Finance Business Partner role, you'll be at the heart of that mission-partnering with various teams across the business to turn financial insight into better decisions that ultimately improve care for our customers. You'll lead clear, consistent reporting across our cost centres, provide data‑led analysis, and shape plans and forecasts that keep our investment in the right places. It's a role for someone who enjoys joining the dots-linking strategy, transformation and BAU-to drive value in a complex environment.
How you'll help us make health happen
Present financial results, insights and clear recommendations to our Leadership Teams
Prepare and finalise executive‑level commentary-making complex messages simple, consistent and decision‑ready.
Ensure reporting is consistent across all cost centres, helping budget holders understand actuals, forecasts and budgets.
Create financial models and scenario analyses that support key decisions, making sure insights are easy to understand without unnecessary jargon.
Build strong knowledge of our estate, including centrally held and locally held costs, internal recharges and areas for efficiency.
Work with analysts so software, licences and contract details feed accurately into plans and forecasts.
Partner with Finance teams across the business (including planning, systems and tax) and collaborate with Procurement to ensure transparent, compliant activity.
Provide constructive commercial challenge and highlight practical alternatives where needed, while automating data wherever possible to support quicker decision‑making.
Key skills/Qualifications required for this role
Qualified Accountant would be beneficial - please state this on your application
Significant experience within finance business partner role is essential
Comfortable advising and influencing Executive and senior leaders, with the confidence to challenge and the ability to tell a clear story with numbers.
Strong financial modelling and investment appraisal skills, ideally with experience in complex cost allocation or recharge models.
Curious, proactive and pragmatic - able to manage BAU and change activity in a fast‑paced environment.
Experience in healthcare or regulated financial services is helpful but not essential.
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:
Bupa Place
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.
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