Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

1 month ago

Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom Bupa Full time
Job Description:

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Hybrid working with up to 4 days per week working from home

Brighton or Salford Quays, Manchester

Permanent

Salary circa £70K per annum dependent upon experience

Fantastic benefits including healthcare and 10% Management Bonus Scheme

Full time 37.5 hours per week

Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.

Bupa Global has offices around the world including London and Brighton (UK), Dublin (Europe), Miami (USA), Dubai (UAE, in partnership with OIC), Egypt and Hong Kong (China) as well as regional offices in mainland China, Singapore, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala and Ecuador.

As our FP&A Manager you'll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering Bupa's global financial planning and forecasting processes. Here you'll be right at the heart of the business and you'll get to see what our future holds.

This role suits an analytically minded yet curious person who wants to be part of a great team and will be able to inform and influence right up to board level.

Here's what to expect:

Accountabilities & Activities
  • Lead and motivate a team of one or more qualified accountants ensuring that the team and activities are aligned with the Group Finance vision.
  • Deliver a high staff satisfaction score through building employee engagement within the team.
  • Support the development of a 'customer service' culture across BG Commercial Finance to ensure that the function builds rapport with, and understanding of, each division and region
  • Act as a change catalyst for change working with the Head of FP&A and members of the wider Commercial Finance team to raise the collective performance of the Business
  • Have a sharp focus on managing and building value added partnerships with customers across all divisions and regions
  • Responsible for ensuring that BG FP&A provides value-added monthly, quarterly, and annual financial insights and financial analysis across the Bupa Global Business designed to provide financial insights to aid decision making to drive business performance.
  • Designing analytical tools and business intelligence leveraging best practice analytics tools
  • Work closely with other Commercial Finance teams by providing proactive ad-hoc analysis of financial data
  • Conduct reviews of regional plans, business cases and periodic financial information
  • Be accountable for delivering FP&A-specific objectives and for contributing to the overall Bupa Global shared objectives
  • Improve processes and decision making by challenging the status quo in a commercial, pragmatic and proactive manner to ensure that FP&A has good visibility of key issues and risks
  • Help define and deliver robust and measurable business cases for global and local projects
Qualifications, Training and Experience

The jobholder will be able to demonstrate:
  • Professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, CPA)
  • Ability to act as a change agent and champion change throughout the team.
  • Proven leadership attributes with the ability to translate and implement strategic vision through people management and development activities.
  • Comprehensive financial planning and analysis knowledge with demonstrable success of operating at a senior level within the financial services sector, ideally in insurance.
  • Strong practical commercial experience with an understanding of Bupa's marketplace.
  • Experience of operating in a regulated environment
  • Experience working with project / programme teams
  • First-hand experience of financial / business planning in a complex and multi-level (i.e. Group / Divisional / Multinational) organisational environment
  • An understanding of process re-engineering and the ability to make improvements to planning processes and to embed the changes throughout an organisation
  • Strong analytical, problem solving and issue resolution abilities
  • Excellent decision making and judgment skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including preparation of executive presentations
  • Advances abilities to interact with and influence at senior levels, particularly at Divisional and Executive level (up to Board).
  • Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously with high quality results
  • Ability to adapt to changing and ambiguous situations
  • Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
  • An organised and flexible approach to work
  • Strong knowledge of Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, Anaplan and Oracle databases; experience of working with financial systems an advantage
Key relationships

The Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis must be a forward looking individual with a methodical, enquiring and analytical approach to their work and who is able to demonstrate creative, objective and lateral thinking when working under pressure.

They will be expected to show a high degree of problem solving which will be needed in order to interpret complex technical and operational information and translate their impact to Bupa's insurance and non-insurance businesses.

The role holder will play a significant part in the strategic development of Bupa Global Commercial Finance and its contribution to the business.

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.

Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:

Locations:
Bupa Place, Victory House, Brighton

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