Finance & Governance Placement Student

Overview

Finance & Governance Undergraduate Placement Scheme

Location: London, Salford Quays (Manchester), Leeds. Hybrid working options available. 1 Year Rotation. Full time 35 hours per week. Start Date: September 2026. Salary: £25,000 – £27,500 per year (dependent on location) + Fantastic Benefits.

We’re known as a leading healthcare group, but we’re so much more than that. We have 60 million customers worldwide, with no shareholders, so we can reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. We’re focused on our purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. If you’re looking to kick start your career and can bring us the skills we’re looking for, then we can help you build your career and you can help us make health happen.

Gain a deep and valuable insight into the financial world after your second year at university and give a bright start to your future career with our 12-month undergraduate industrial placement.

Responsibilities / What you’ll do

During the placement, you’ll complete a rotation across the breadth of our finance functions, which may include:

• Financial Control and Reporting

• Regulatory Reporting

• Financial Planning and Analysis

• Commercial Finance

• Internal Audit

• Risk

• Tax

No two days are the same during the 12-month placement. You’ll face a well-balanced mix of challenges, mutual support and accelerated skills development through our development programme. You’ll also shadow senior colleagues to gain valuable insight and enhance your network.

At the end of a successful placement, there is the potential to be fast-tracked for a place on our graduate scheme.

What we’re looking for

If you share our ambition and are equally as passionate about people, our values and putting customers first, then this is the perfect place to start your Finance & Governance career at Bupa.

Qualifications and Training

• Must have the right to work in the UK

• Current undergraduate student in your penultimate year of your degree

• Any degree discipline

• Be on track to achieve at least a 2.1 in your degree

• Have achieved a minimum of 120 UCAS points, with a minimum of a B in Maths, at A Level or equivalent

Skills and Knowledge

• Curious and inquisitive, challenging the status quo, flexible and adaptable and tenacious and resilient

• Effective self-organisation and ability to plan ahead, to complete tasks to deadlines

• Positive, can-do attitude, pro-active and take the initiative

• Good problem-solving and analytical skills

• Team player, able to work collaboratively with others and influence

• Strong self-awareness with a drive and commitment to own development

• Able to take a commercial approach

• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills

What else we offer you

We specialise in wellbeing. And healthcare is what we’re known for. It’s what makes Bupa, Bupa. Looking after our colleagues and their wellbeing is what we do best. So, alongside an attractive starting salary you’ll also have access to a whole range of other benefits. From discounted gym memberships and online classes to support your physical wellbeing, right through to our Personal Energy programme and network of mental health first aiders. At Bupa your wellbeing is our priority. We’ve always had belief in our colleagues so flexible working is built into our culture. Giving our colleagues the trust to work in a way that suits them and the needs of the business, helping them maintain a great work life balance and we can do the same for you.

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 takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. 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

Click on the link to apply, you’ll need an up-to-date CV and complete our short application form.

We’ll review your application and, if successful, you’ll be asked to complete some online ability tests that will form part of the application process. If you’re successful at this stage, we’ll invite you to complete a video interview where you have a chance to tell us a bit more about yourself. The final stage of our recruitment process will be an assessment day which is likely to take place virtually.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area:

Locations: Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge