Job Description:
Senior Financial Accountant
Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP)
Full time 37.5 hours
Hybrid working
Permanent
Salary from £44,300 per annum (DOE)
Advert closes Friday 5th September 2025
We make health happen
At Bupa, we're here to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives - and make a better world. We're a health insurer and provider with no shareholders, so our customers are always our focus. That means we reinvest profits into better care, better experiences, and better outcomes.
As a Senior Financial Accountant, you'll be part of our Central Functions team, supporting our customer-facing colleagues to deliver exceptional service and care. You'll play a key role in our Record to Report team, helping ensure our financial processes are accurate, compliant, and insightful. It's a chance to do meaningful work that supports our mission and makes a real difference every day.
How you'll help us make health happen
In this role, you'll lead and support a range of financial activities, including:
Consolidating and reconciling monthly financial accounts for specific business units.
Working closely with accounting experts to apply policies and standards accurately.
Leading submissions for Group and industry reporting, including IFRS and Solvency II.
Reviewing balance sheets and cashflows, preparing reporting packs with clear insights.
Supporting uploads to Tagetik (actuals and forecasts) and ensuring alignment with Group instructions.
Reviewing non-technical provisions and ensuring accurate period-end reporting.
Managing capitalisation and depreciation of fixed assets in line with policy.
Supporting year-end financial and statutory returns with audit-ready documentation.
Driving continuous improvement in reporting processes and financial controls.
Key skills/responsibilities needed for this role
We're looking for someone who's technically strong, detail-oriented, and ready to take ownership. You'll need:
A professional accounting qualification (ACCA or CIMA) would be beneficial or qualified by experience as an Accountant is essential
Strong technical accounting and analytical skills, including IFRS and Solvency II experience.
Experience in financial and management accounting within a complex organisation.
Confidence working under pressure and managing competing deadlines.
Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, and financial systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, Tagetik, Oracle).
A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a drive for continuous improvement.
Excellent communication and customer service 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'll receive the following benefits and more:
25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with the option to buy or sell
Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
Enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Local discounts where no onsite gym is available
Access to internal learning and development platforms
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 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.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.
