Finance Business Partner

Job Description:

Finance Business Partner

Manchester or London Hybrid working

Permanent

Salary range: £51k - £60k DOE Location and experience

10% Management bonus scheme

Full time

We try to consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

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.

The Functions Finance Business Partnering team forms part of the Finance & Commercial function within Bupa BGIUK. The team’s role is to provide finance support & challenge for the BGIUK Functions and to support Bupa UK’s change agenda through good governing and reporting of programmes.
The role of Finance Business Partner is to support this outcome in respect of the specific functions; whilst working closely with the Functional Leadership enabling robust financial decision making in everything they do.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Ensure appropriate cost control around activities of defined BGUK Functions. Ensure that actual, forecast and budgeted costs are fully understood by budget holders at all times. Act as a conduit for all cost issues and ensuring appropriate information is provided. Support the identification and delivery of cost saving initiatives.
• Provide insightful MI and commentary.
• Provide support to business planning, budgeting and forecasting activity.
• Provide commercial support and, as appropriate, challenge to proposed activity, performing financial analysis including investment appraisal as necessary.
• Provide support and analysis to strategy proposals, including scenario and sensitivity analysis, commercial appraisals, etc.
• Be seen as true partner to the Functional leadership team building strong relationships with key stakeholders and customers.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Fully qualified accountant
• Extensive commercial finance experience in the following areas: reporting, planning, forecasting, cost control and business partnering.
• Flexible, objective and pragmatic. Able to work under significant pressure and intensity – handling multiple conflicts of interest and priorities and capable of providing insightful and balanced views on business risks and issues.
• Developed influencing skills and negotiation skills and the ability to achieve results and successful outcomes from others where there is no shared line management.
• Objective, analytical and lateral thinking with a ‘can-do’ attitude with the ability to summarize and communicate complicated technical issues

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 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: [email protected]

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Finance & Accounting

Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, HCAS Leeds branch, Staines - Willow House