Financial Technical Accounting Manager

UK Financial Technical Accounting Manager

Kirkstall Forge, Leeds OR Bupa Place, Manchester Hybrid Working

Permanent

Salary range: Up to £64,000.00 DOE & 10% Management Bonus Scheme

Full time

We try to consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

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.

We make health happen:

The Technical Accounting team forms part of the Finance function within Bupa Global, India and UK Market Unit (“BGIUK MU”).

The team gets involved in any accounting/finance matters that arise across the MU and Group as and when required. This results in a role that is very varied and unpredictable which can result in workload demands that vary significantly from period to period.

The primary role of the Technical Accounting team is to ensure that the BGIUK MU is compliant with IFRSs, local internal & external finance reporting requirements whilst supporting the business units with technical accounting queries, liaising with external auditors, FP&R, Actuarial, M&A, legal, Group and property teams on any issues which are impacted by, or may require, a technical accounting review.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Preparing draft technical accounting analysis and papers and explaining the guidance to the Head of Financial Reporting
• 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.
• Continually improve the control framework within BGIUK MU in relation to IFRS group and statutory reporting
• External statutory entity specific queries.
• Ensuring access to Group tools are appropriate across the BGIUK MU.
• Continuous awareness of complex and new transactions to ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory obligations including coordination with experts including external audit, legal, property and tax teams.
• Support BUs with the reporting IFRS submissions in Group reporting tools. This may be very hands on but on an adhoc basis (current examples include Niva)
• Support the integration of newly acquired business including technical accounting and reporting internally and externally.
• Manage the end to end process (starting with TBs) for the preparation of the annual statutory accounts for consolidations that sit within the MU (currently just the Care Services BU). Continually improve this process to drive efficiencies in preparation and audit fee cost reductions

This is not an exhaustive list

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• An experienced chartered accountant, with 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.

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

• 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.

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.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com