Exciting things are happening at Bupa! We’re growing our Global Internal Audit (GIA) function – and at the heart of it all? Our customers.

At Bupa, we’re building something better and bolder that truly puts the customer first. Supporting this is a culture of effective risk management and internal control which plays a vital role in delivering great outcomes.

If you’re passionate about meaningful work, eager to learn, and ready to take on new challenges, Bupa GIA is the place for you. Join us in our mission to create faster, more effective, and sustainable improvements in internal controls, and support Bupa to achieve its purpose of helping people live longer, happier, healthier lives and making a better world.

To learn more about GIA and the fantastic work we do, visit our LinkedIn Lifepage.

The opportunity

We are a global function of over 100 audit professionals, who take a risk-based and data-led approach to drive our internal consultancy and valuable insights to Senior Management and the Board. We provide independent assurance on Bupa's risk management and control environment and are focused on influencing positive change to help our stakeholders continuously improve and better achieve strategic objectives. 

We are seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to join our recently awarded 2024 IIA Audit Team of the Year, focusing on Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. 

Senior Auditors work across all of Bupa’s business areas, including health insurance, health services (dental, optical, government), aged care, and corporate and support functions such as Finance, People and Technology.

We provide the freedom to develop your own career, with excellent internal development courses available and advancement encouraged. Flexible work arrangements are supported and encouraged, with our CBD office located in the heart of the city, in close walking distance to trains, trams, buses and car parks.

This permanent full-time position will be based at our Exhibition Street, Melbourne CBD offices. Bupa offers hybrid working arrangements and you can work from the office or from home.

What impact will you have? 

• Help Bupa in accomplishing its strategic objectives through high quality insights that promote sound risk management practices and ongoing enhancement of the control environment.
• Innovate and grow with the GIA function to ensure that our ways of working and audit execution align with leading practice and are relied upon and valued by the business for meaningful assurance insights.
• Proactively establishing and fostering strong, independent, and objective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, acting as a catalyst for change by sharing knowledge and bringing risk and control expertise to the business
• Collaborate with Global Internal Audit peers to lead change on a Group-wide scale, as well as leverage and learn from the vast knowledge base of a Global function.
• Deliver and manage audit activities as part of a high-performing team to embed sustainable improvements across the business’ key processes and controls, to support Management’s achievement of Bupa’s strategy.

Why work at Bupa? 

We keep our people smiling by helping them improve their lives in and outside of the office.

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 a 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.

What do I need? 

• Tertiary qualifications in Accounting
• Professional qualifications (CIA, CA, ICAA, CPA, CIMA, PIIA etc)
• Appropriate Professional associations & memberships
• To demonstrate your technical competence, we suggest candidates will have a minimum of 4 years’ end to end internal audit lifecycle experience.

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.

Since 2002, we have reinvested approximately $6 billion in the region, with the Bupa Foundation investing more than $34 million to support 130+ health and care projects.

Our people reflect the diversity of our community. At Bupa, your wellbeing, identity and own story is respected and valued.