Finance Analyst - FP&A, Pharmacy

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join the Boots UK Finance team as Senior Finance Analyst - Pharmacy FP&A. As part of the Pharmacy FP&A team you will be crucial for providing clear, high-quality reporting, analysis, and insight to the business and central FP&A to ensure clarity and alignment of in year performance, financial forecasts, and budgets. You will report directly to the Finance Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis for Pharmacy.,

• Develop strong working relationships with the Pharmacy business teams.
• Support the financial planning processes (in year performance, financial forecasts, and budget) for Pharmacy in a collaborative manner seeking input and engaging wider FP&A, business partners and financial control teams to ensure rigorous and robust financial planning.
• Manage the weekly and monthly performance reporting and driving for continuous improvement of output, ensuring the business understands and has clarity on its performance.
• Manage SG&A processes and reporting to ensure clear understanding across the business and central FP&A on key drivers and continually looking at efficiencies.
• Assist in development of TM1 for future Pharmacy reporting.
• Act as a link between various Finance functions - i.e., Financial Control, Central FP&A, Stores Finance and Transformation to close month end in a timely manner with clear articulation of performance across Pharmacy and Pharmacy Operations SG&A.
• Quarterly reporting, providing insight into performance, a lot of emphasis on pharmacy and critical clarity is provided for the external announcements.
• Review weekly reporting across Pharmacy, ensuring outputs are delivered to stakeholders and to a high standard.
• Provide adhoc analysis across Pharmacy where required.
  
  Have experience in finance and either be qualified or studying ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building leadership skills
• Strong analytical skills combined with commercial acumen to generate insight from various data sources.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, being able to manipulate data in different formats and ability to present data clearly at the right level of detail.
  
  At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.
  
  Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.