Finance Systems Manager - Management Reporting

Bupa; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bupa seeks a skilled professional to enhance its financial planning systems. In this role, you will lead a team, improve reporting practices, and ensure effective operation of the Global Planning tool, ultimately contributing to a better customer experience. This position offers up to £90,000 per year, alongside a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan and life insurance

Annual performance-based bonus up to 25%

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Qualifications

• Strong experience in finance processes and application knowledge.
• Evidence of delivering large-scale global solutions.
• Ability to lead a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead Global Support team to implement functionality improvements.
• Collaborate with Finance leads on planning and forecasting processes.
• Drive delivery of new planning and reporting functionalities.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Technical finance knowledge

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACA/ACCA)

Tools

Oracle EPM

SAP

Anaplan

Job description

Job Description:

Angel Court, London

Hybrid/flexible working

Up to £90,000 per annum + fantastic benefits including up to 25% bonus

Full time 35 hours per week

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

Working in our Group function you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care not just in the UK but around the globe.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, by helping shape the strategic direction of our business around the world.

Bupa has implemented a Global Planning and Reporting tool to strengthen the efficiency of the Financial Planning processes. The Global Planning solution is a strategic tool for Bupa (used by all the FP&A teams globally) and it is developed through the Oracle EPM Cloud. The tool will continue to evolve to support the automation and enhanced controls of our increasing Management Reporting and Planning needs.

You will be working for the Group Finance Systems team reporting to the Head of Management & ESG Reporting Applications. You will be operating and improving the tools while working closely together with our global users and guiding them to make best use of the tool’s functionality.

This Global Planning tool is part of a wider landscape of Statutory, Regulatory, Management, ESG, Actuarial, Tax and Treasury applications that have many interdependencies. You will be ensuring that the Planning tool is fitting well within the wider systems landscape and the Bupa Finance Systems Strategy.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

You will be utilising your finance process and application knowledge working closely with finance users to improve reporting practices and further systemise additional processes sitting outside the strategic reporting tool. Your role will involve Run and Change activities for our Global Planning tool and processes. Your main tasks will include:

Run

• Lead our Global Support team to collect (or personally identify), assess and implement functionality improvements and configuration changes to our systems.
• Collaborate with the Finance leads in the Group and Market Units, as well as the Finance Systems Team counterparts to ensure that the system effectively supports the planning and forecasting processes
• Coordinate with our Technology teams to ensure that the end-to-end service is at the level required
• Be responsible for the smooth operation of our planning and forecasting cycles, driving the support and issue resolution for our 525+ global users
• Ensure we operate within the agreed Governance and Control framework

Change

• Lead the translation of functional requirements to application design and configuration
• Drive the delivery of new planning & reporting functionality and continuous enhancements for the existing ones
• Work as part of the wider team including internal and potentially external resources. Your role will include oversight of requirement gathering, solution design and build, oversight of testing, delivering end-user training, all the way to transitioning the projects to BAU.
• Partner with key roles to create well-defined solutions that are aligned to Bupa’s Business and Finance Systems Strategy and leverage common solutions and services to meet key project goals
• Be a leader in this area by implementing new and improved ways of working, delivery models and / or technological advancements
• Contribute to the development of your own and the team's technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams, inclusive behaviours, and emotional intelligence
• Be responsible for the day-to-day collaboration with the Group Technology and Software Vendor to ensure appropriate support for the Group Finance
• Keep yourself up to date with the Oracle EPM new functionalities and identify areas of improvements these can bring to the Bupa processes.

What you’ll bring:

• Solid technical and analytical skills, with good experience of finance processes. You need to be able to speak with finance teams and translate their requirements into system functionality
• Expertise in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions (e.g. Oracle/ Hyperion/ SAP/ Anaplan/ Cognos) with proven experience of delivering and/or operating large scale global solutions
• Ability to lead a team delivering tangible outcomes and assisting in the team’s continued development
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across Group and Market Finance teams
• Organised and methodical work approach, with ability to manage workload and projects
• Professional accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) as well as Oracle Groovy experience will be considered as a plus
• Good understanding of data processing including data uploads, interfaces with other systems, data extraction and manipulation

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
• Annual performance-based bonus up to 25%
• 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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End Date: July 2, 2025
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