Senior Finance Business Partner

Senior Finance Business Partner (12 month FTC)

Job Description:

Senior Finance Business Partner - Group Investment Fund (FTC)

Angel Court, London EC2R 7HJ

Competitive salary + fantastic benefits including up to 10% bonus

12 month Fixed-Term contract

Hybrid working

Full time 35 hrs per week

Please note that you must be available to start by 31st December 2025.

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.

Role Overview

Bupa's Group Investment Fund (GIF) is a worldwide fund set up to accelerate the delivery of Bupa's strategy, focusing on initiatives aligned to our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, and making a better world. The fund is available to Market Units to help fund largely Environmental, Social and Governance (ESGC) initiatives globally.

This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver a world class finance partnering service to teams accessing the Fund (across both Market Units and the Group Functions).

The Finance Business Partner - Group Investment Fund is a fixed-term role to cover a colleague's leave and will have a key role in preparing material for and attending the monthly GIF Governance Committee, which is co-chaired by both the Group Chief Financial Officer and Group People and Sustainability Officer.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with both project teams, oversight specialists and Market Units to ensure accurate tracking of GIF funded projects and their financial spend.
• Provide best in class MI to enable full transparency on GIF spend versus budget and forecasts, benefit tracking and ensure accurate and up to date forecast is available at all times. Feed into the monthly reporting process, providing insightful commentaries on financial performance.
• Influence and lead finance and non-finance stakeholders and develop good working relationships with other departments.
• Responsible to produce high quality, timely and accurate MI for presentation to the GIF Governance Committee, CEC and Board level as required, including detailed and robust analysis, and other ad hoc reporting as required by the business. Take a proactive approach to modify/develop MI to meet the needs of stakeholders in measuring progress and success.
• Collation and summarise business cases for approval to the GIF Governance Committee.
• Accurate tracking of project benefits associated with GIF funded projects
• Work closely with the wider Finance team to ensure issues that impact the wider team are communicated, with clear actions to resolve.
• Assist in shaping and implementing required changes and enhancements to Finance processes and reporting.
• Document, communicate and assist in the resolution of risks and issues as and when they arise.
• Finance business partner to certain Group Functions (e.g. Brand) where projects are primarily funded via the GIF.

What you'll bring:

• ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified
• Strong Finance Business Partner experience
• Excellent relationship building, presentation and communication skills to establish good rapport with non-financial oriented individuals and other Bupa finance teams.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, managing conflicting tasks/requests and meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills with a proven ability to bridge financial knowledge-gaps.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, building and strengthening relationships within the business at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to design and develop business performance reporting on financial and non-financial data, providing clear and insightful information for decision making.
• Experience in implementing strong financial controls and improving the efficiency of standard monthly/quarterly processes.
• Project tracking and project accounting.
• Solid management accounting and excel skills.
• Proactive and curious attitude

Benefits

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It's important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

• 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 discount

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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Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Locations:

Angel Court, London

Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme, Financial planning services, Free flu jabs, Employee mentoring programme, Company pension, Referral programme, Health & wellbeing programme