Senior Finance Analyst

General information

Description & Requirements

The opportunity:

Be at the heart of our mission to become the world's most customer centric Healthcare company, in this 12-month fixed-term contract position! 

The Senior Finance Analyst plays a key role in delivering comprehensive financial analysis, commercial modelling, business partnering and financial support across the business. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with customer-centric areas of the business, understanding key drivers and translating results into meaningful insights. You will deliver strategic initiatives and impactful outcomes.

The successful candidate will work alongside team members to lead and coordinate the 3-Year Plan (3YP), forecasting, and delivery of the weekly, monthly and ad-hoc financial reporting. The role will also support financial modelling and perform monthly variance analysis against plan, providing insightful commentary and commercial guidance to inform business decisions. 

How will I help?

• Month-end including project reporting and forecasts, month-end close processes, delivering P&L reporting, dashboards, commentary, and other monthly requirements for the business.
• Variance analysis and review of month-end results, providing analysis and explanations for variances.
• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting processes for the business area, covering the 3-Year Plan (3YP) and BEF submissions.
• Partner and collaborate with operations teams to develop an annual business area P&L for review by the Finance team. 
• Support on business case modelling for new proposals and projects. 
• Conduct adhoc market analysis and benchmark commercial performance against key competitors to inform strategic direction. 
• Drive efficiencies, streamline forecasting and budgeting processes, and automate reporting, focusing on continuous improvement and increased efficiency. 
• Identify and lead cost-reduction initiatives to enhance cost efficiency across the business area. 
• Building productive relationships with stakeholders, including highly senior project sponsors, stakeholders to facilitate successful project outcomes.
• Assist with the rollout of enterprise wide PowerBI reporting capabilities. 
• Provide mentorship and coaching to team members and peers to develop the capability of our people across Finance and the business. 

What do I need?

To be successful in this role you will need to be a highly effective communicator, have strong financial analytical capabilities, commercial acumen and have high attention to detail. You will be able to build positive relationships with and influence all levels of stakeholders, including senior leadership. You will also require:

• 5+ years’ experience in a finance/commercial analyst role
• CA or CPA qualified
• Experience developing commercial proposals, tenders, financial models and business cases
• Strong technical experience with complex financial modelling, communicating financial concepts simply and succinctly to non-finance colleagues
• Confident and effective at presenting results to stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills (Advanced Excel, Power BI, SQL) and experience using a range of financial operations systems
• Ability to juggle and manage competing deadlines alongside BAU

Why work at Bupa?

We’re a welcoming lot, no matter who you are or where you’ve come from. We welcome all talents and backgrounds and embrace our differences, so you can bring your true self to work.

We support our people to be the best version of themselves, physically and mentally. With a healthy work/life balance, leadership support, reduced private health cover, study leave, volunteering options and a commitment to promoting from within.

Our employees can access wide range of benefits: from our own products (incl. health insurance discounts) to many other products and services via our partnerships program (like Apple, Samsung, JB Hi-Fi, plus gym and spa discounts to name a few). We reward our people and celebrate their success, provide initiatives that develop careers and look after our people’s health, wellbeing, and futures.

About Bupa Asia Pacific:

Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years.

Bupa Asia Pacific operates in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, supporting about 6.5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, dental, medical, optical and hearing services. Employing more than 20,000 people in the region, we believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of customers through our values, purpose and the way that we deliver personalised care.

At Bupa, we are striving to create and sustain a safe and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all cultural backgrounds, genders, and abilities. If you require any adjustments to participate in our recruitment process, please let us know at the time of your application.