Finance Business Partner - UK & Africa

Finance Business Partner – UK & Africa

Brighton or Angel Court, London

Flexible/Hybrid working options up to 4 days per week from home

Permanent

£53K - £60K 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.

We always go the extra mile by giving our customers fast access to treatment and helping them get the specialist support they need.

As part of Management at Bupa, you’ll deal with the responsibility of looking after our people as well as shape your own development.

As our finance business partner you’ll be a pivotal bridge between finance and the UK & Africa sales teams, supporting the wider team remit to partner the Product and Marketing function where necessary. This means providing country specific support to Africa & UK and ensure strong collaboration and partnering with the Egypt Finance team.

You’ll help develop commercial business cases within the region ensuring initiatives deliver strong ROIs that support both organizational growth plans and margin improvement targets.

This calls for a commercially minded partner who wants to get into the middle of the action at this transformative stage. Be part of a new team. Yours to make your own…

What you’ll do:

• Support the regional team in delivering profit, revenue and strategic aims of Bupa Global.

• Act as a business partner to the UK & Africa sales teams and support the wider team remit to partner the Product and Marketing function where necessary.

• Provide country specific support to Africa & UK and ensure strong collaboration and partnering with the Egypt Finance team.

• Help develop commercial business cases within the region ensuring initiatives deliver strong ROIs that support both organizational growth plans and margin improvement targets.

• Influence and lead both finance and non finance stakeholders and develop strong working relationships across the organisation.

• Drive reporting and analysis on monthly performance, including key sales results and P&L analysis. Investigating key variances to Plan, BEF, prior year and trend, and preparing insightful commentaries tailored to the audience as appropriate. Feeding in to monthly finance led BPC / ET packs and sales driven exec team packs as appropriate. Lead on the communication of results at sales teams meetings.

• Providing inputs in to the Planning and Forecasting processes, including the annual operating plan, 3YP and monthly rolling BEF, and thoroughly reviewing and understanding the full sales / P&L outputs. Challenging the sales teams in order to deliver on growth targets. Preparing detailed commentaries to enable FP&A team to clearly understand the inputs in to the AOP.

What you’ll bring:

• Fully or nearly qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or qualified by experience

• Strong Commercial finance skills

• Stakeholder and partnering experience

• Must be able to interpret/analyse outputs and communicate to non finance personnel.

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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