Job Description:
Cromwell Hospital (High Street Kensington Offices, London, SW5 0TU)
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.
* 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 capex purchase orders, ensuring the correct department and project coding has been used.
* Ensuring that capex spend is managed to Plan and providing robust explanations for deviations from Plan, including depreciation variances to plan.
* Providing 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.
* Providing ongoing support to senior management for large capex projects within the Hospital and providing 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: careers@bupa.com
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