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Job Description
Finance Business Partner
King Edward VII's Hospital, 5-10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, London W1G 6AA
Permanent (37.5hrs) On-Site (3 days per week minimum)
Circa. £68,000pa Fantastic Benefits
How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen.
As a Finance Business Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in connecting finance with operational and clinical teams, providing the insight, challenge, and support needed to drive informed decision-making and sustainable growth.
Working closely with leaders across the business, you'll ensure financial thinking is embedded into everyday operations, helping to maximise performance, improve efficiency, and support the delivery of outstanding patient care. You'll be a visible and trusted partner, influencing strategic decisions, shaping new services, and ensuring opportunities for growth and investment are underpinned by robust financial analysis, control and planning.
Key Responsibilities
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:
When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa — a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well‑established systems that help you grow, develop and support the delivery of exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.
We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to “Be you at Bupa”, and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences. 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’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
Locations:
King Edwards VII Hospital
Finance Business Partner
King Edward VII's Hospital, 5-10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, London W1G 6AA
Permanent (37.5hrs) On-Site (3 days per week minimum)
Circa. £68,000pa Fantastic Benefits
How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen.
As a Finance Business Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in connecting finance with operational and clinical teams, providing the insight, challenge, and support needed to drive informed decision-making and sustainable growth.
Working closely with leaders across the business, you'll ensure financial thinking is embedded into everyday operations, helping to maximise performance, improve efficiency, and support the delivery of outstanding patient care. You'll be a visible and trusted partner, influencing strategic decisions, shaping new services, and ensuring opportunities for growth and investment are underpinned by robust financial analysis, control and planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with operational and clinical leaders to improve financial performance and support business objectives.
- Provide financial insight and challenge to support effective decision-making.
- Monitor KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
- Build business cases, investment appraisals, and financial models to support growth initiatives.
- Support capacity planning, service development, and operational efficiency projects.
- Work collaboratively across departments to ensure new services and projects are commercially viable and that supporting financial processes are in place.
- Contribute to change and transformation projects, tracking financial impact and benefits realisation.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and monthly performance reporting.
- Deliver financial guidance and training to non-finance stakeholders.
- Build trusted relationships across the organisation, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- 5 years qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
- Proven Finance Business Partnering experience within a complex organisation.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to turn data into actionable insights.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
- Advanced Excel skills with experience in financial modelling and business case development.
- Experience supporting business change, transformation, or project delivery.
- Organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Healthcare experience is desirable, although candidates from other regulated sectors are welcome.
- Collaborative, accountable, and committed to continuous improvement.
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:
- Payment of Professional Registration fees
- 25 days annual leave and our flexible holiday scheme allows you to buy or sell up to 5 days each year in the flexible holiday window
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
- Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
- Various family friendly benefits
- Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony.
When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa — a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well‑established systems that help you grow, develop and support the delivery of exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.
We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to “Be you at Bupa”, and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences. 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’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
Locations:
King Edwards VII Hospital
Salary : $68,000