Finance Business Partner (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Finance Business Partner

Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP) or Kirkstall Forge (Leeds, LS5 3BF) or Angel Court (London, EC2R 7HJ)

Hybrid Working

FTC 12 months

Advert closes Tuesday 6th May 2025

We Make Health Happen

At Bupa, our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting our mission by providing finance support to the BGIUK Executive Team and the Finance Leadership Team. You will ensure that our functional costs are fully understood and managed effectively, contributing to the overall financial health of our organisation. This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a team that is dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives through our healthcare services.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and customers, acting as a true partner to the Functional leadership team.
• Provide Exec level commentary and insightful MI across functional finances, including monthly flash, ELOS, and functional/cost centre reporting.
• Engage with relevant teams to support and deliver actuals, forecast, plan, or modelling activities.
• Provide commercial support and challenge proposed activities with alternative proposals by ensuring budget holders have relevant information required to make decisions and automate data provision where possible.
• Ensure appropriate financial control for one or several Functions/Cost centres within the BGIUK functional cost base.

Key Skills/Qualifications required for this role

• Professional accountancy qualification (ICAEW, ACCA, or CIMA or equivalent) is required.
• Business Partnering experience to an Executive team (ET) and ET-1 level with confidence to present analytics and options, robustly challenge, holds an inquisitive mindset and strong understanding of corporate functions is essential.
• Strong financial modelling and investment appraisal skills.
• Experience with complex recharge/service fee models.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work under significant pressure and handle multiple priorities.

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

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.