Job description
Finance Associate
Brighton, Victory House
Flexible / Hybrid working options
Permanent
28k-33k DOE + fantastic benefits
Full time – 37.5 hours p/week
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
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.
Role Overview
The role is part of the General Ledger Team within the Financial Reporting Team (“FRT”). FRT comprises a team that manages the General Ledger (“GL”), and the accounting, interfaces and controls (including reconciliations) over it, and another team that prepares monthly financial results (management reports and statutory entity reports).
What you’ll do:
- Assists with the preparation of the general ledger to include journal preparation and posting and assisting with the month-end reporting close process
- Helps to ensure that the GL is fully accurate and that the balance sheet is reconciled in line with policy and procedures and that reconciling items are accounted for correctly and on a timely basis
- Proactively works to improve the financial reporting processes and controls within the function and management of process documentation to meet changing business requirements
- Participates in adhoc finance projects and change activities
- Assists external auditors with information requirements and queries
- Complete other ad-hoc tasks as required
- To maintain governance and control requirements, ensuring that all Bupa accounting and financial control policies are understood and applied within Bupa Global
What you’ll bring:
- Qualified by experience or unqualified accountant with a strong desire to learn and potentially develop on to an accounting qualification in the future
- Numerate, with the ability to process financial data and with a strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills (both verbally and written), driven, and with a team focus
- Track record of exceeding business objectives
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Strong appetite to learn Business partnering / Stakeholder management skills
Why Bupa?
We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
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 discounts
Diversity and Inclusion
Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path.
Welcome to a place that celebrates you.
This isn’t where you've been.
This is where you're going.
This is what we have belief in.
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Bupa
careers.bupa.co.uk
London, United Kingdom
Iñaki Ereño
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
1947