Finance Business Partner

Bupa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurer seeks a Finance Business Partner to enhance hospital performance through strategic financial management. This hybrid role involves working closely with departmental heads, driving revenue efficiencies, and supporting key business decisions. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong Excel skills and a commercial mindset, ready to contribute to Bupa's mission of improving health outcomes.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Life insurance

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in industry as a qualified accountant is essential.
• Ability to produce outputs for senior management and executive teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive hospital performance through financial management and decision support.
• Build relationships with heads of department for financial performance.
• Lead the 3-Yr plan process ensuring alignment to strategy.

Skills

Excel

Power Point

Commercial Acumen

Stakeholder Management

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

Oracle

Peoplesoft

Compucare

Job description

Job Description:

Finance Business Partner

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

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

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.

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