Finance Analyst (Capex)

Job Description:

Finance Analyst (Capex)

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

Full time, Permanent

Hybrid Working (2 days per week in the office)

Salary from £46,000 per annum (DOE) plus fantastic Bupa Benefits

Advert closes Wednesday 23rd April 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  own  the  Capital  Investment  request and  sign-off  process,  alongside  CAPEX  reporting,  forecasting  and  planning  across  the Hospital  and  our  Specialist  Diagnostic  Centres.    Ensuring that the Hospital Fixed Asset Register is accurate  and  that  all  capex-related  processes  are  regularly  reviewed  and  are being adhered to.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• You will be managing the capital expenditure request process (CER) for the hospital  and  our Specialist  Diagnostic  Centres.

• By Producing a weekly view of capex requests for review and sign off by the Cromwell Executive and maintaining an up-to-date record of all CERs and outcomes.

• Approving of capex purchase orders, ensuring the correct department and project coding has been used.

• Ensure that capex spend is managed to Plan and provide robust explanations for deviations from Plan, including depreciation variances to plan.

• Provide a monthly capex Forecast, along with commentary on month-on-month movements, for submission to Group.

• Responding to queries and identifying opportunities for improvement in processes and reporting.

• Provide on-going support to senior management for large capex projects within the Hospital and provide up-to-date cost v budget analysis for each project.

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role

• A part qualified accountant or qualified-by-experience working in a capex finance role within a large organisation.

• Demonstrated understanding of CapEx vs OpEx, with ability to advise on categorisation in line with accounting capitalisation principles and challenge where appropriate.

• 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 financial modelling.

• 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.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Confident and robust enough to challenge senior colleagues where appropriate. The ability to build relationships with the wider Finance community and the business at all levels.

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: [email protected]

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Finance & Accounting

Locations:

Cromwell HSK