Accounts Payable Team Member

Bupa; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday per year

Wellbeing programme

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Online discounts

Job summary

Bupa is hiring an Accounts Payable Team Member for its BGUK Finance Operations team at Bupa Place, Salford Quays. This hybrid role (2 days in the office) offers 37.5 hours per week and a starting salary from £26,400 per annum DOE.

You will ensure suppliers are paid accurately and on time while maintaining strong financial controls and improving processes. You will process invoices, maintain supplier records, support governance, and collaborate with stakeholders to promote best practice across

Qualifications

• Experience within an accounts payable role is required.
• Strong numerical skills and the ability to analyse data from multiple sources.
• A meticulous approach and attention to detail.
• Ability to adapt to change and work under pressure.
• A can-do attitude and desire to improve processes and customer service.
• Confidence in communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
• High energy and enthusiasm.
• A professional telephone manner and strong customer service ethic.
• Advanced PC skills.

Responsibilities

• Process supplier invoices from various sources and enter them accurately into the system.
• Ensure supplier maintenance follows governance procedures.
• Pay suppliers in accordance with terms and Bupa guidelines to improve PPR.
• Identify savings opportunities and implement actions to realise savings.
• Verify the legality of requests and challenge non-compliant documentation.
• Support process and system enhancements with a lean approach.
• Perform daily audit reports to minimise risk and maintain controls.
• Communicate with key stakeholders to promote best business practice.
• Manage workload and collaborate with the wider team.

Skills

Accounts payable experience

Numerical skills

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Can-do attitude

Stakeholder communication

High energy

Telephone manner

Advanced PC skills

Job description

Accounts Payable Team Member

Permanent

Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP)

Hybrid working (2 days in the office)

Full time 37.5 hours

Salary from £26,400 per annum DOE

We make health happen

At Bupa, our purpose is clear: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We’re a health insurer and provider with no shareholders, so our customers always come first.

As an Accounts Payable Team Member, you’ll be part of our BGUK Finance Operations team, helping to ensure our suppliers are paid accurately and on time. You’ll play a key role in maintaining strong financial controls, supporting business areas, and identifying opportunities for improvement. It’s a role that combines precision, problem-solving, and collaboration – all essential to making health happen behind the scenes.

How you’ll help us make health happen

In this role, you’ll:

• Process supplier invoices received from various sources ensuring that they are accurately, efficiently, and promptly entered onto the system
• Ensure all new and updated supplier maintenance follows the agreed governance procedure
• Ensure suppliers are paid in accordance with their contractual terms and Bupa’s guidelines to improve PPR
• Proactively identify areas for potential savings and create and fulfil ways of bringing about actions to realise these savings through varied methods
• The team member will verify the legality of requests received and challenge documentation that does not comply to Bupa policy To drive and assist with process and system enhancements and projects taking a lean approach at all times
• To perform daily audit reports to minimise risk and maintain robust controls
• Communicate effectively with all key stakeholders, creating a strong supporting relationship with all business areas to promote best business practice.
• Identify areas of the business that are having problems with any aspect of the e-Purchasing system or associated processes (e.g. receipting) and support and advise them to mitigate these problems and ensure that there is no operational impact
• Manage own workload to a consistently high standard and work collaboratively with wider team

Key skills/Qualifications required

We’re looking for someone who’s detail-oriented, proactive, and passionate about delivering great service.

• Experience within an accounts payable role is required
• Strong numerical skills and the ability to analyse data from multiple sources
• A meticulous approach and attention to detail
• Ability to adapt to change and work under pressure
• A can-do attitude and desire to improve processes and customer service
• Confidence in communicating with stakeholders at all levels
• High energy and enthusiasm
• A professional telephone manner and strong customer service ethic
• Advanced PC 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 will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday per year
• Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to our confidential employee assistance programme
• Workplace pension
• Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

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.