Senior TCO Analyst

ACCA Careers; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health insurer seeks a TCO Analyst to support financial decision-making and enhance customer service standards. The successful candidate will provide analytical support, ensuring transparency in financial operations, and will collaborate closely with finance teams to drive cost efficiency. A commitment to wellbeing and a focus on diversity is central to Bupa's mission.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing through length of service

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan and life insurance

Annual performance-based bonus

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Various other benefits and online discounts

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in finance roles including business partnering.
• Experience in financial analysis, planning/forecasting, FinOps.
• Ability to present analytics to Senior Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

• Support finance metrics and analysis related to TCO activities.
• Deliver insightful analysis on cloud costs and financial support.
• Monitor contract and license usage to enhance decision making.

Skills

Advanced reporting skills

Strong understanding of cloud computing services

Business Partnering

Financial modelling

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Cloudability

Azure Cost Management & Billing

Job description

Job Description:

TCO Analyst

Manchester, Staines or London

Competitive salary DOE & location + fantastic benefits

Full time: 37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

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 and every day.

The role

In this role you will support the team to provide finance support to the Executive Team, the Finance Leadership Team and others to understand allocations of functional costs via service fees, total cost of ownership metrics and FinOps.

You’ll help us make health happen by

• Building out total Cost of Ownership activities
• Reporting and forecasting TCO metrics: Current cost of services across the functions historical trends, and future impact of transformation programmes
• Using Technology Business Management to build a framework with consistent methodology to record an appropriate granularity of costs to enable customer understanding of cost drivers and influenceable costs
• Deliver insightful analysis and reporting on Cloud costs by working closely with FinOps and our Technology function to enable informed decision-making, optimisation of Cloud spend, and leveraging native Cloud data to enrich TCO across Technology and other Functions
• Regular tracking of contract and license usage of c£80m – and communications to Businesses to enable decision making
• Build an understanding of the BGIUK IT estate including centrally held functional costs, locally held, shadow tech and internal recoveries and recharges models. Provide support and analysis to challenge further consistency and operational efficiency in the tech estate
• Provide proactive financial support by understanding MU and functional strategy, interlinks with transformation activity and BAU, performing financial modelling including investment appraisals and scenario modelling. Specifically monitoring change and transformation activities to profile future TCO
• Be financially accountable for advising and educating functional leaders on the principles of TCO and fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and cost efficiency within our Cloud environment

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Hold a professional accountancy qualification – ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA (or equivalent)
• Minimum of 5 years experience in industry or practice within finance roles; business partnering, Financial Analysis, planning/forecasting, FinOps, Management accounting and Financial Reporting
• Business Partnering experience to an Senior Leadership Team level – confident to present analytics and options, robustly challenge, holds an inquisitive mindset and strong understanding of corporate functions
• Advanced reporting skills, experience developing custom reporting, dashboards, and visuals
• Strong understanding of cloud computing services, including cloud infrastructure, software, and platform as a service (IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS).
• Working knowledge of third-party or cloud-native cloud cost reporting products and tools (e.g., Cloudability, Azure Cost Management & Billing). Understanding of public cloud provider billing methods and concepts.

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
• 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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

End Date: June 30, 2025
For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.