Finance & Accounting Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

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Job Description:

Finance Business Partner

Cromwell Hospital (High Street Kensington Offices, London, SW5 0TU)

Full time, Permanent

Hybrid Working (2-3 days per week in the office)

Salary starting at £55,000 per annum + 10% Bonus + fantastic Bupa Benefits

Advert closes 8th May 2025

We make health happen
We are a leading health insurer and healthcare provider, with care homes, health centres, dental practices, and a hospital. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. Your input will support Bupa to deliver on our purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.

How you'll help us make health happen

  • By driving Hospital performance in line with the strategy, through proactive management of several key operational departments' financials  and providing decision support to the divisional managers.

  • Monitoring and understanding departmental KPIs along with forecast performance against plan. Provision of information and analysis to drive corrective action where relevant

  • Building relationships with the heads of department and ensuring they understand and can explain their monthly results at performance meetings.

  • You will be proactively seeking out options, with the head of department, for driving revenue and cost efficiencies. Appropriately challenging on spend and providing insight  and recommendations for key business decisions.

  • Building the financial case for capital investment requests, cost / benefit analysis of staffing changes and new services.

  • Leading on the 3-Yr plan process for respective departments, ensuring these are robust, aligned to the strategy and completed on time.  

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role

  • A qualified accountant with experience in industry is essential. Please specify your qualification on your application.

  • Highly competent in Excel and Power Point. Knowledge of Oracle, Peoplesoft and Compucare would be desirable but not essential.

  • Experience in assisting with business cases, investment appraisals and financial modelling with being able to produce outputs for senior Management and Executive teams, including the ability to draw out and summarise key messages.

  • An understanding of key Hospital business drivers and operations is desirable.

  • Strong commercial acumen alongside a robust understanding of finance processes.

  • A mindset of continuous improvement and efficiency, with the ability to challenge the status quo and an appetite to understand complex processes.

  • Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills. Confident and robust enough to challenge senior colleagues where appropriate. The ability to build relationships with the business at all levels and the wider Finance community.

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 time

Job Area:

Finance & Accounting

Locations:

Cromwell Hospital London

Finance Business Partner

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Our
purpose

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.

Our
values

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.

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Free to be
you

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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Finance Business Partner

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