Head of Financial Reporting

Job Description:

Head of Financial Reporting

London

Hybrid & flexible working options

Permanent role

Competitive salary & benefits package

Full Time – 35 hours

Closing date for applications – Friday 7th March 2025

We make health happen!

At Bupa, our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. As the Head of Financial Reporting, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity and accuracy of our financial reporting, which is essential to our mission. You will lead a dedicated team responsible for the consolidation of Group statutory reporting under IFRS, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and maintaining robust internal controls. This role is key to supporting our commitment to transparency and excellence in financial management.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Consolidation of Results: Ensure financial accounting throughout Bupa complies with the latest accounting guidance and policies. Prepare the Group’s consolidated statutory accounts for Half Year and Full Year periods, and support Group reporting under Solvency II.
• Financial Analysis: Provide high-quality financial analysis to assist with better decision-making.
• Annual and Interim Reports: Coordinate and produce the Group’s Annual and Interim Reports, ensuring compliance with disclosure requirements and maintaining clear timelines for data submission.
• Technical Accounting: Maintain a comprehensive technical accounting policy manual and provide guidance on complex Group commercial transactions.
• Team Leadership: Lead, motivate, and develop a team of qualified and graduate accountants, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain engagement with key senior stakeholders, including the CEO, CFO, and Group Director of Performance and Finance Transformation, to ensure their feedback is incorporated into financial reporting.
• Audit Coordination: Coordinate with the Group’s external auditors to support their audit of the financial statements.
• Process Improvement: Champion adherence to the Group Financial Control Framework and drive improvements in processes and decision-making.

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:

• Professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, CPA)

• Excellent knowledge of IFRS and its application (incl. Insurance company accounting)
• Detailed knowledge of UK external reporting requirements and group consolidations.

• Ability to act as a change agent and champion and deliver change and continuous improvement throughout team and the wider finance function.
• A high control standards mindset and the ability to design and implement a sound reporting control environment.
• Proven leadership attributes with the ability to translate and implement strategic vision through people management and development activities.

• Effective people skills, including influencing, to liaise with market units, business units, information suppliers and external auditors.
• Comprehensive financial reporting knowledge with demonstrable success of operating at a senior level within the financial services sector, ideally in insurance.
• Strong practical commercial experience with an understanding of Bupa’s marketplace.
• Experience of operating in a regulated environment.
• First-­hand experience of delivering reporting solutions in a complex and decentralised environment.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously with high quality results
• Ability to adapt to changing and sometimes ambiguous situations
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
• Experience of working with project / programme teams in the effective delivery of change.

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
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Company car allowance
• 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. 

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Finance & Accounting

Locations:

Angel Court, London