Financial Reporting Accountant

Brighton

£40,000 - £45,000 base salary + benefits

Permanent / 35 hours p/week

Closing date: 12th December 2020

About Bupa...

We're a leading health insurer and healthcare provider, with care homes, health centres, dental practices and a hospital. 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.

We believe in quality, affordable and accessible healthcare for all. Bupa's finance teams are a vital component in delivering on our purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.

About the area you'll be working in...

The Financial Reporting Accountant role is a pivotal role within Bupa Global finance team. Bupa Global is the worldwide Bupa business, with regional offices in London, Brighton, Copenhagen and Egypt.

As a key member of our General Ledger Team (GLT), your input will be critical to ensuring monthly financial reporting is accurate and timely.

Supported by experienced senior management at Bupa, you will benefit from working in a high-calibre finance team. If you are an ambitious finance professional, keen to carve a great finance career at Bupa, then start your journey today.

What you'll be doing...

• Assist with preparation of general ledger

• Monthly management and statutory financial reporting

• Balance sheet reconciliations

• Ensure integrity of general ledger accounts

• Liaise with external auditors

• Support tax reporting for VAT & IPT

• Project support for Bupa's finance systems

Who we're looking for?

• Part-Qualified or newly qualified accountant (e.g. ACCA, ACA)

• Financial reporting experience, especially supporting month-end processes

• 'Hands-on' finance professional with strong attention to detail

• Numerically minded and excellent communication skills

• Ambitious and willing to learn!

What's it like to work here?

We want people to 'love working here', so much so that's it's at the top of our agenda and something you'll hear a lot about here at Bupa. We offer our people a great range of benefits, many of which are flexible and can be tailored to suit what's most important to you. We're a healthcare company so there's a huge focus on our people's health and wellbeing, supported by a healthy work-life balance and workplaces which are friendly, appealing spaces to support you to be at your best.

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.

We're an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity and welcomes everyone - all talents and backgrounds. Bupa strives to make sure that every applicant is assessed solely on the basis of personal merit and qualifications, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

If you'd like to learn more, please visit https://careers.bupa.co.uk/our-roles/professional/