Financial Accountant
- Recruiter
- Bupa
- Location
- Leeds, UK
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 22 Oct 2019
- Closes
- 24 Oct 2019
- Ref
- 1307679321
- Job role
- Accountant, Financial accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
Financial Accountant
Leeds; Kirkstall Forge
Permanent
£38,000 - £43,000
Full Time, 37.5h
A bit about us
Bupa is one of the most well-known and respected healthcare businesses in the world, because what we do matters. From our contact centres to our care homes; health and dental centres to our state of the art hospitals across all four corners of the globe, every part of our operations are dedicated to our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives. We pride ourselves on working with brilliant people who put our customers at the heart of everything they do.
About the area you'll be working in
The overall process is to support the delivery to care services, internally to care services and to group.
What you'll be doing
As the Financial Accountant you will
- maintain the day to day accounting process including a focus on the accounting control and audit of specified business units within the UK Market Unit
- you will be supporting the closing of COGNOS to Tagetik and continued development of the Tagetik consolidation system
- in addition to this you will implement and maintain controls, reconciliation's, and establish a consistent reporting stream to the UK MU, BU's and Corporate Centre
What's a typical day?
- You will be responsible for the financial reporting cycle of specified business units within the UK Market Unit, including the preparation of various journal postings, review and approval of non-local ledger submissions, and the analysis of monthly trial balances in order to prepare and support monthly and quarterly Tagetik group submissions under IFRS and EBS
- You will assist in the improvement of the nominal ledger account code structure to ensure operational efficiency is maximised with the ultimate aim of making the financial and management accounting process as efficient as possible
- In addition to this you will prepare quarterly IPT, VAT returns, providing support and guidance as required to Business Services Finance - Corporate Services
- Completing year end financial and statutory returns as per group and industry guidelines as well as the maintenance of year end working files for internal control, group submissions and external audit review would also form part of the role
Who we're looking for?
Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with the equivalent level of experience within a finance environment
You may possibly be a first mover from practice, with good experience of producing month/year end accounts and statutory information
Good PC skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and accountancy software
Excellent Customer Service skills, including communication, management of expectation, recommendations, quality of outputs etc
Quick to learn and responsive to the needs of the business
Proactive with a 'can do' approach
Analytically and numerically minded
Though we're looking for the above, if you feel you have the necessary experience, we'd still like to hear from you.
What's it like to work here?
As you'll already know, 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.
Benefits
We're driven by one purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and that that means our people too. As a Bupa employee you'll be entitled to some fantastic benefits which include 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days as your length of service increases, the option to buy and sell holiday, an enhanced pension plan, life assurance and income protection. You'll join our annual bonus scheme, amount variable dependent upon your role and performance. Looking after your health is important to us and you can benefit from our health trust scheme where all our people have the option of taking our market-leading medical insurance cover, which includes mental health support and treatment, at a greatly reduced price as well as a free health assessment every 2 year. Your health and wellbeing matter to us and we provide lots of family friendly policies too. You can keep fit at our free onsite gyms (local gym discounts where no onsite gym). We will support you to get to work, offering a season ticket loan to spread the cost of an annual train/bus ticket as well as our cycle to work scheme.
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 (url removed)
Leeds; Kirkstall Forge
Permanent
£38,000 - £43,000
Full Time, 37.5h
A bit about us
Bupa is one of the most well-known and respected healthcare businesses in the world, because what we do matters. From our contact centres to our care homes; health and dental centres to our state of the art hospitals across all four corners of the globe, every part of our operations are dedicated to our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives. We pride ourselves on working with brilliant people who put our customers at the heart of everything they do.
About the area you'll be working in
The overall process is to support the delivery to care services, internally to care services and to group.
What you'll be doing
As the Financial Accountant you will
- maintain the day to day accounting process including a focus on the accounting control and audit of specified business units within the UK Market Unit
- you will be supporting the closing of COGNOS to Tagetik and continued development of the Tagetik consolidation system
- in addition to this you will implement and maintain controls, reconciliation's, and establish a consistent reporting stream to the UK MU, BU's and Corporate Centre
What's a typical day?
- You will be responsible for the financial reporting cycle of specified business units within the UK Market Unit, including the preparation of various journal postings, review and approval of non-local ledger submissions, and the analysis of monthly trial balances in order to prepare and support monthly and quarterly Tagetik group submissions under IFRS and EBS
- You will assist in the improvement of the nominal ledger account code structure to ensure operational efficiency is maximised with the ultimate aim of making the financial and management accounting process as efficient as possible
- In addition to this you will prepare quarterly IPT, VAT returns, providing support and guidance as required to Business Services Finance - Corporate Services
- Completing year end financial and statutory returns as per group and industry guidelines as well as the maintenance of year end working files for internal control, group submissions and external audit review would also form part of the role
Who we're looking for?
Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with the equivalent level of experience within a finance environment
You may possibly be a first mover from practice, with good experience of producing month/year end accounts and statutory information
Good PC skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and accountancy software
Excellent Customer Service skills, including communication, management of expectation, recommendations, quality of outputs etc
Quick to learn and responsive to the needs of the business
Proactive with a 'can do' approach
Analytically and numerically minded
Though we're looking for the above, if you feel you have the necessary experience, we'd still like to hear from you.
What's it like to work here?
As you'll already know, 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.
Benefits
We're driven by one purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and that that means our people too. As a Bupa employee you'll be entitled to some fantastic benefits which include 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days as your length of service increases, the option to buy and sell holiday, an enhanced pension plan, life assurance and income protection. You'll join our annual bonus scheme, amount variable dependent upon your role and performance. Looking after your health is important to us and you can benefit from our health trust scheme where all our people have the option of taking our market-leading medical insurance cover, which includes mental health support and treatment, at a greatly reduced price as well as a free health assessment every 2 year. Your health and wellbeing matter to us and we provide lots of family friendly policies too. You can keep fit at our free onsite gyms (local gym discounts where no onsite gym). We will support you to get to work, offering a season ticket loan to spread the cost of an annual train/bus ticket as well as our cycle to work scheme.
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 (url removed)