Finance Business Partner

Job Description:

Finance Business Partner

Cromwell Hospital (High Street Kensington Offices, London, SW5 0TU)

Full time, Permanent

Hybrid working (1 to 2 days per week in the office)

Salary: £45,000 to £48,000 per annum (depending on experience) + fantastic Bupa Benefits

Advert Closes: 5pm Friday 21st March 2025

We make health happen

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 a member of the Cromwell Finance Team, you will be responsible for Business Partnering several key operational hospital departments. This will involve working with the Heads of Department to understand the monthly results and performance compared to plan and previous trends; providing information and analysis to support decision making and drive corrective action, along with producing the 3-year plan for those departments.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Be the trusted finance advisor to several key operational departments and divisional managers in the Hospital by building relationships with the heads of department and providing support in monitoring/understanding departmental revenue & cost trends along with forecast performance against plan.
• Ensuring the heads of department understand and are able to explain their monthly results at the Executive KPI meeting.
• Delivering appropriate challenge on spend / decisions.
• Provision of information and analysis to drive corrective action where relevant.
• Responding to queries and identifying opportunities for improvement in processes and reporting.
• Building the financial case for capital investment requests of the departments.
• Production of ad hoc financial analysis and business intelligence to help drive the profitability of the Hospital.
• Leading the 3-Year plan process for respective departments, ensuring these are robust and aligned to the strategy.
• Recommending options to streamline the plan process where possible.

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role

• Part-qualified or near completion of recognised Accountancy Qualification.
• Previous experience in a Finance business partnering role is essential with a background within a healthcare environment being preferred.
• Highly competent in Excel and Power Point.
• Knowledge of Oracle, Peoplesoft and Compucare would be desirable but not essential.
• Experience in assisting with business cases, investment appraisals and modelling is desirable.
• Experience in producing outputs for senior Management and Executive teams, including the ability to draw out and summarise key messages.
• Strong organisation, time management and stakeholder management skills.
• An understanding of key Hospital business drivers and operations is desirable.

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.

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