As a Senior Financial Accountant, you'll be part of our Central Functions team, supporting our customer-facing colleagues to deliver exceptional service and care. You'll play a key role in our Record to Report team, helping ensure our financial processes are accurate, compliant, and insightful. It's a chance to do meaningful work that supports our mission and makes a real difference every day.
How you'll help us make health happen
In this role, you'll lead and support a range of financial activities, including:
1. Consolidating and reconciling monthly financial accounts for specific business units.
2. Working closely with accounting experts to apply policies and standards accurately.
3. Leading submissions for Group and industry reporting, including IFRS and Solvency II.
4. Reviewing balance sheets and cashflows, preparing reporting packs with clear insights.
5. Supporting uploads to Tagetik (actuals and forecasts) and ensuring alignment with Group instructions.
6. Reviewing non-technical provisions and ensuring accurate period-end reporting.
7. Managing capitalisation and depreciation of fixed assets in line with policy.
8. Supporting year-end financial and statutory returns with audit-ready documentation.
9. Driving continuous improvement in reporting processes and financial controls.
Candidate requirements
We're looking for someone who's technically strong, detail-oriented, and ready to take ownership. You'll need:
1. A professional accounting qualification (ACCA or CIMA) would be beneficial or qualified by experience as an Accountant is essential.
2. Strong technical accounting and analytical skills, including IFRS and Solvency II experience.
3. Experience in financial and management accounting within a complex organisation.
4. Confidence working under pressure and managing competing deadlines.
5. Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, and financial systems (e.g., PeopleSoft, Tagetik, Oracle).
6. A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a drive for continuous improvement.
7. Excellent communication and customer service skills.
About Bupa
At Bupa, we're here to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives — and make a better world. We are a health insurer and provider with no shareholders, so our customers are always our focus. That means we reinvest profits into better care, better experiences, and better outcomes.
We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa". We champion diversity and understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role, ensuring fair treatment and reasonable adjustments as needed.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva, our global wellbeing programme, covers mental and physical health, financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and offer a range of family-friendly benefits. Joining us in this role, you'll receive:
* 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service, with options to buy or sell days.
* Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
* Enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
* Local discounts where no onsite gym is available.
* Access to internal learning and development platforms.
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