Cash Management Accountant

Cash Management Accountant   
Location: Salford Quays M50 3SP 
Contract: 12 month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment  
Full-time position: 37.5hours    
Salary: From £30,500 (dependent upon experience) 
Hybrid and flexible working options available 1-2 days a week in the office required.
 

About the Role 
Join our Cash Management team within Finance Operations, where you'll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial transactions across multiple UK and global business units. 

This is a hands-on reconciliation-focused position, with approximately 80% of your time dedicated to bank and cash reconciliations. You'll be responsible for performing daily bank reconciliations across multiple banking systems, investigating and resolving reconciling items, posting receipts and payments accurately, and ensuring all activities are completed in line with strict financial controls and compliance requirements. 

The remaining 20% of the role involves a variety of ad hoc duties, including supporting process improvement initiatives, contributing to projects, and collaborating with stakeholders across the business to drive efficiencies and resolve cash management queries. 

What you’ll do: 

• Responsible for ensuring business bank accounts are reconciled daily and reconciling items are investigated and cleared.  

• Ensure all receipts are posted and appropriately recorded in a timely and accurate basis in accordance with operational procedures. 

• Ensure all payments are appropriately recorded in a timely and accurate basis in accordance with operational procedures. 

• Reconciliation of Bupa’s petty cash payments including validation and posting to ledger. 

• Dealing with our internal/external customers and all levels via telephone, e-mail and face to face in order to resolve any queries promptly and providing a high standard of customer service. 

• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, building strong supporting relationships with all areas of the business and strive towards breakthrough performance. 

• Perform daily operational audit controls on key activities in order to minimise financial irregularities in relation to collection of premiums and payment of claims. 

• Perform key reconciliations in line with agreed reconciliation operating model across all bank accounts for all business units in UK Market Unit and Bupa Global 

What you’ll bring: 

• Educated to degree/graduate level (ideally Finance, Accounting, Maths). 

• Proven ability to use complex finance systems. 

• Excellent communication, analytical, problem solving and presentation skills. 

• Strong attention to detail 

This opportunity would suit someone who enjoys working with high volumes of financial data, has exceptional attention to detail, and takes pride in identifying and resolving discrepancies. Success in the role requires strong analytical skills, the ability to manage competing priorities, and confidence working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. 

Benefits 
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: 

• Flexible Holidays scheme: 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with the option to buy or sell. 

• Environmental – Electric Car Scheme and Payroll giving scheme 

• Financial – Stream, Discounts platform, Loan and saving schemes and Enhanced Pension Scheme. 

• Mental and Physical - Family mental health line. 

• Social: Volunteering days and Be You at Bupa Network 

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 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. 

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]