UK Financial Tech Accounting Manager Leeds, England
Job description
Job Description:
Financial Technical Accounting Manager
Leeds or Manchester
Hybrid working options up to 4 days per week from home with one day per week at Kirkstall Forge Leeds
Permanent
£50K - £57K per annum + fantastic benefits including 10% Management Bonus Scheme
Full time 37.5 hours per 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.
As our Financial Technical Accounting Manager, you'll play a niche but pivotal role within the finance & Commercial function of Bupa. Here you'll help ensure we're compliant with IFRS & reporting requirements. You'll also work on some wide ranging yet very interesting projects requiring high levels of attention where you'll engage with senior management.
What you'll do:
The role will assess and present technical accounting issues to the team. This will ensure robust analysis is provided to those charged with governance to ensure that the Management Unit is compliant with group and local statutory reporting requirements. The role will also support the BU Finance Managers with day-to-day technical accounting queries. Some of the activities and responsibilities are:
Preparing draft technical accounting analysis and papers and explaining the guidance to the Head of Financial Reporting to include:
Complex and new transactions
Reviewing Group issued Technical Accounting Policies to ensure compliance
IFRIC compliance
Briefing the Head of Financial Reporting and supporting discussions with the Group technical team ensuring they are up to date with MU developments and are supportive of the approaches being developed
Providing technical accounting support for advice on NDA projects in conjunction with the Head of Financial Reporting and M&A team
Support of our technical analysis to external auditors.
Understanding of the MU consolidated balance sheet position for presentation to the Head of Financial Reporting.
Identifying and raising issues with the Head of Financial Reporting.
Involvement in the capital management for each statutory entity, reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting in conjunction with Strategic Finance team in Group.
To continually improve the control framework within BGUK MU in relation to IFRS group and statutory reporting
External statutory entity specific queries.
Ensuring access to Group tools are appropriate across the BGUK MU.
What you'll bring:
A chartered accountant, several years post qualified, ideally with recent IFRS experience.
Confident individual with an interest in and experience of technical accounting assessments.
Analytical and lateral thinking with a ‘can-do' attitude.
Flexible and pragmatic.
Able to work under significant pressure and intensity – handling multiple conflicts of interest and priorities and capable of providing balanced views.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Competent user of financial systems and consolidation tools and standard Microsoft packages essential.
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.
Time Type:
Full time
