Overview of the role
To be the mid-level finance business partner within the wholesale area of the business. Supporting senior stakeholders to create and manage business plans and budgets across multiple departments and forecast future needs using a long-term planning process to make informed decisions that improve company performance. Working for the Director of Finance for Wholesale to oversee the organisation’s long-term financial health as the business grows.
Main Responsibility
- Finance Business Partner for Lexon Ireland, Key Pharma, Assurex, Dispex and Pharmdata
- Finance Business Partner for the Buying team, supporting with analysis, PI reporting, stock reporting and helping them understand the financial impact of commercial buying decisions
- To build out the budgets into zero base form and ensure actuals are tracked at right level for the newly acquired businesses to support ongoing variance analysis and business insights.
- To create the right data sets and analysis around the portfolio of products already in place so we can see the CGUs and their future potential – will be required for commercial reasons and audit.
- To create the right reporting set for the business to manage and monitor performance. Getting them into self-serve via Anaplan and using Group process and conventions.
- To embed ‘Well’ governance into the newly acquired entities (segregation of duties, SAO processes, financial insights and governance) with support from the Group FC – driving consistency across the group.
- To deliver accurate and timely forecasts and annual zero-based budgets in partnership with the senior team and in line with group requirements.
- To deliver accurate and timely insights on weekly, monthly and other frequency so we can drive business performance to maximum possibility.
- To create market driven insights to help shape discussion on performance and bring outside in insights.
- To highlight growth opportunities and support the business in accessing them and driving them into realised profits
- To protect the group from surprises and shocks to the finances by effective planning and three statement insight
- To ensure tasks which support our license to trade are properly completed (audit, MHRA analysis, customer insights etc).
- To consider investments via payback (discounted and non, ROI and other mechanisms) creating proper measurable benefits and project analysis.
- To guide and support less senior members of the finance team.
Key knowledge and skills required:
- ACCA or CIMA part qualified or experience qualified.
- Should understand and be able to lead the business through complex financial concepts and accounting - giving them simple advice and layman language
- Is able to set up processes and ensure bookkeeping and analytics are set up simply and easily.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate and create insights and so what’s on large sets of data – experience with Power BI, excel and other analytical tools.
- Ability to work across three financial statements both to interrogate and to forecast forward.
- Organised, methodological and deadline / output driven.
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’
