Finance Business Partner

Job Description:

Finance Business Partner

Hybrid working with up to 3 days per week working from home

Salford Quays Manchester or Angel Court London

Permanent

Salary starting from £58,000 dependent upon experience

Fantastic benefits including 10% Management Bonus 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 Finance Business Partner, you’ll bring your extensive stakeholder management and commercial finance skills to provide support to the Functional Executive team member and their teams, as well as delivering key financial processes including month end, rolling

forecasts and the three-year Plan.

 

How you’ll help us make health happen

The main activities of the role include:

• Ensure appropriate financial control for one or several functions/Cost centres within the Bupa functional cost base.
• Ensure that actual, forecast and budgeted costs are fully understood by budget holders at all times.
• Provide Exec level commentary and insightful MI across functional finances including but not limited to; monthly flash, ELOS and functional/cost centre reporting.
• Provide proactive financial support by understanding MU and functional strategy, interlinks with transformation activity and BAU, performing financial modelling including investment appraisals and scenario modelling
• Understand Group/MU Finance landscape and proactively engage relevant teams to support and deliver actuals, forecast, plan or modelling activities including FP&R, systems and tax.
• Provide commercial support and, as appropriate, challenge proposed activity with alternative proposals.
• Be data led, ensuring budget holders have relevant information required to make decisions and where possible, automate provision of data
• Be financially accountable for advising functional leaders and CCMs on accounting including accruals, prepayments, fixed and intangible assets. Providing appropriate evidence and sign offs as well as adhering to statutory requirements fed from and to the Head of Functional Reporting.
• Collaborate with procurement to ensure; adherance to internal policies, contracts are within funding and there is transparency
• Be seen as a true partner to the Functional leadership team building strong relationships with key stakeholders and customers.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Hold a professional accountancy qualification – ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA (or equivalent)
• Minimum of 5 years experience in industry or practice within finance roles; business partnering, Financial Analysis, planning/forecasting, Management accounting and Financial Reporting
• Business Partnering experience to an Executive team (ET) and ET-1 level – confident to present analytics and options, robustly challenge, holds an inquisitive mindset and strong understanding of corporate functions
• Preferred experience in healthcare or regulated financials services
• Financial modelling and investment appraisals to support key decisions
• Storyteller – able to explain over arching finance messages to ET/ET-1 level within presentations whilst ensuring data and systems integrity
• Experience of complex recharge/service fee models
• Holds and continually develops influencing and negotiation skills and the ability to achieve results and successful outcomes from others where there is no shared line management.
• Flexible and pragmatic – able to work under significant pressure and intensity, handling multiple priorities both BAU and change and taking a risk based approach
• Experience at lean processes valued 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 takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process. 

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Finance & Accounting

Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place