Overview of the role
As Commercial Finance Business Partner, you will play a key role in forecasting, reporting and influencing the financial and commercial outcomes in two Wholesale business units, Medhub and Wardles
This is a key role in the Wholesale Finance team supporting the Business Units to unlock value and drive business performance through insight, action and accountability.
Main Responsibility
- Work collaboratively with Wholesale colleagues as a valued and trusted advisor, and provide support and challenge to their initiatives and opportunities
- Ensure delivery of timely and high quality analysis and reporting through working closely with other finance colleagues across Well
- Drive performance of the business by identified opportunities and engaging the commercial teams.
- Track and provide analysis to support delivery of acquisition synergies by working collaboratively with data teams and commercial teams
- Provide analysis and reporting on market share position
- Provide critical decision-making recommendations, balance support with probing and constructive challenge, and clearly and concisely explain key reporting and insight on profitability and KPI’s
- Meet relevant forecast and budget deadlines with high levels of accuracy and detail
- Ensure month end accounts are accurate and representative of true performance working alongside shared service centre
- Support adhoc queries and requests from financial and non financial colleagues
- Support and attendance at Commercial Management meetings
- Support, challenge and provide analysis to influence the commercial leadership team
Key knowledge and skills required:
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA)
- Non Finance & Finance Stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with ability to build and maintain effective internal and external relationships
- Confident with ability to constructively challenge to drive performance
- Highly analytical with financial awareness and commercial acumen
- Excellent computer, report building (Power BI), excel and data analysis skills
Problem Solving & Change:
- Provide Insight and meaningful analysis into Wholesale performance, identify areas of underperformance/focus, provide content, identify opportunities and make recommendations to drive long term performance improvements.
- Work at pace, make decisions and resolve problems quickly, demonstrate initiative
- Will be required to work on weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual planning horizons
The Ideal Candidate
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
Package Description
- Competitive salaries
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Workplace pension scheme
- Staff Discount
- Travel Loans and more…..
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
