Financial Reporting Manager

TN United Kingdom; Salford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurer is seeking a Financial Reporting Manager to oversee financial controls and reporting for a significant cost base. The role involves managing a team and ensuring compliance with statutory accounts. You will play a crucial part in enhancing customer service and patient care by providing exceptional financial oversight.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Access to wellbeing services

Fixed-term benefits allowance

Confidential employee assistance programs

Qualifications

• Experience in financial and statutory accounts reporting.
• Ability to work under significant pressure and handle multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support financial control and reporting for the functional and central cost base.
• Lead a team of 6-7 individuals and manage financial reporting processes.

Skills

Leadership

Financial Reporting

Problem Solving

Education

Professional Accountancy Qualification (ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Power BI

Oracle

PeopleSoft

Job description

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Secondment: 12 months

Circa £50k - £60k DOE and location + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

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 day.

The role

As a Financial Reporting Manager, you will support the Head of Functional Reporting to deliver financial control and reporting for the functional and central cost base.

You’ll help us make health happen by

• Providing a central shared service of financial controls for reporting and reviewing the central cost base (£250m)
• Ensuring central year-end statutory accounts and VAT returns, including supporting documentation, are prepared and completed to professional standards
• Leading processes to reduce wastage and applying appropriate controls and materiality to financial processes, including process mapping, documentation, using tools like Power BI, Oracle, and PeopleSoft
• Leading, managing, motivating, and supporting a team of 6-7 individuals
• Regularly reviewing and updating financial statutory reporting and controls, including process mapping and maintaining a risk register
• Ensuring regular balance sheet reconciliations to support and challenge granularity and regularity, adopting a risk-based approach
• Being responsible for financial and board reporting for the Bupa Foundation
• Overseeing staff training and development

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Holding a professional accountancy qualification – ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent
• Experience in financial and statutory accounts reporting
• Solution-oriented, flexible, and pragmatic approach
• Ability to work under significant pressure and handle multiple conflicts of interest and priorities
• Strong people management and leadership skills

Our benefits are designed to promote health and wellbeing. Viva, our global wellbeing programme, covers mental, physical, financial, social, and environmental health. We support flexible working and offer various family-friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role, you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday per year, pro-rated to your contract
• Access to services supporting your physical and mental wellbeing
• Fixed-term benefits allowance
• Access to confidential employee assistance programs

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are driven by the purpose of 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.