Financial Accountant

Full-time, Permanent

Hybrid | Salford Quays, Manchester | 2 days per week in the office

The Role

The Financial Accountant is part of the Financial Control team within the wider Bupa Dental Care Finance function. This role is responsible for supporting day-to-day accounting activities, with a particular focus on financial control, reporting, audit and compliance across a portfolio of legal entities.

You'll play a key role in the month-end and quarter-end reporting cycle, ensuring the accurate reporting of profit and loss, balance sheet and cashflow information in line with accounting standards and principles. You'll also support the Senior Financial Accountants with external and internal audits, statutory accounts submissions across 135 legal entities, and corporation tax and VAT activities.

What You'll Be Doing

• Supporting monthly and quarterly reporting activities, ensuring deadlines are met, including balance sheet and cashflow reporting, IFRS submissions and Solvency II requirements.
• Working closely with Senior Financial Accountants to ensure the end-to-end reporting cycle is completed, reconciled and reported in line with month-end timetables.
• Preparing reconciliations and supporting balance sheet reviews, ensuring reporting is accurate, compliant and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Validating accruals, prepayments, provisions and related charges, maintaining robust supporting evidence and escalating any issues where required.
• Supporting the completion of corporation tax and VAT returns.
• Assisting with the preparation of statutory accounts, responding to audit queries and providing supporting documentation.
• Maintaining and running the depreciation cycle.
• Supporting the implementation and ongoing maintenance of financial controls, reconciliations and reporting processes across the business.

What We're Looking For

• Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACA/ICAEW or ACCA).
• Strong financial accounting knowledge, including a solid understanding of double-entry accounting principles.
• Experience working to tight deadlines and managing multiple priorities.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Advanced IT skills, including Excel and financial systems. Experience of Oracle would be advantageous.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a customer-focused approach.
• The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across the business.
• A proactive mindset, with a willingness to learn and adapt to changing business needs.
• A positive, can-do attitude and a strong sense of ownership.
• Commercial awareness and a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Benefits

The benefits here are industry-leading, and we’ll be able to tell you more about them in the process (or jump to the benefits and rewards page on our careers site for a flavour). But here’s a snapshot:

• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more.
• Discounts in over 7,000 retailers, discounted gym membership and discounted dental insurance (of course).
• Health Trust - our bespoke employee private healthcare plan, providing healthcare cover with no medical underwriting for colleagues and their families.
• Access to remote GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, and mental health support.
• MyHealthcare Allowance, an annual allowance which is redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products.
• Early access to your earned wages through Wagestream.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• And many more, just ask…

If you or someone you know would be interested in working with a dynamic and expanding healthcare business, with lots of support on offer, great benefits and friendly teams, we would love to hear from you!

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Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.  

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We are committed to ensuring you are treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.