Functions Control & Reporting Manager

We make health happen. We’re a health insurer and provider driven by our purpose: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. At Bupa, we put our people and our customers at the centre of everything we do. Whether it’s through fast access to treatment, supporting mental wellbeing, or creating inclusive workplaces, we’re here to make health happen.

As a Functions Control & Reporting Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the financial integrity and transparency of our Central Functions. You’ll lead a small team and be responsible for delivering accurate, timely financial and management reporting that supports decision-making across the UK Market Unit and Group. This is your opportunity to shape how we report, reconcile, and control our financial data – and make a real impact.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Leading the consolidation and reconciliation of monthly management and financial accounts for Central Functions.
• Acting as the key contact for the Market Unit Financial Planning & Reporting team, managing deliverables across monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles.
• Overseeing submissions for Group and industry reporting, including IFRS and Solvency II.
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring integrity across financial statements.
• Preparing insightful balance sheet and cashflow reporting packs, highlighting key variances.
• Reviewing quarterly VAT returns and ensuring compliance with capitalisation and depreciation policies.
• Supporting year-end financial and statutory returns, maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Driving continuous improvement in reporting processes and financial controls.

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this:

• A professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA) is required.
• Strong technical accounting and analytical skills with experience of IFRS and Solvency 2 reporting.
• Experience in financial and management accounting within a complex organisation.
• A clear understanding of financial control frameworks.
• Confidence working under pressure and managing competing deadlines.
• Advanced Excel and strong skills in Word, PowerPoint, and financial systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, Tagetik, Oracle).
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience leading or mentoring small teams.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.
• Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Fixed term benefits allowance.
• Access to our confidential employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

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.