Overview of the role
As the Senior Finance Business Partner you will support commercial trading within the wholesale area of the business. Partnering with senior business leaders 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. You will work with the Director of Commercial Finance to oversee the organisation’s long-term financial health, challenging & influencing stakeholders to drive decisions based on financial insights.
Main Responsibility
Overview
- Partnering with Head of Sales and Heads of Categories to provide analysis, reporting, and helping understand the financial impact of business decisions.
- Supporting lead buyers to manage supplier reporting, stock availability, margin delivery and overrider/rebate targets are achieved with our core suppliers.
- Working closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner for Wholesale Operations to ensure a consistent and coordinated level of financial support for the entire Wholesale team.
Budgeting and forecasting
- Build out the annual budgets and ensure actuals are tracked at right level for the newly acquired businesses to support ongoing variance analysis and business insights.
- Deliver accurate and timely forecasts in partnership with the senior team and in line with group requirements.
- Work with stakeholders to anticipate financial risks and opportunities and advise on mitigations before issues arise.
Reporting and trade analysis
- Deliver accurate, transparent and timely insights on weekly, monthly basis to drive business performance to maximum possibility.
- Create the right data sets and analysis around the portfolio of products so we can analyse the individual models and their future potential.
- Create market driven insights to help shape discussion on performance relative to the market and key competition.
- Ensure working capital balances are controlled to meet the business targets – notably debtors, creditors and stock holding need to be managed cognisant of their commercial impact on ongoing trade
- Protect the group from surprises and shocks to the finances by effective planning and three statement insight.
Strategic/Corporate
- Identify and highlight growth opportunities. Support the business in accessing them and driving into realised profits focusing on the main strategic projects as identified by the Exec
- Consider investments via payback (ROI and other mechanisms) creating proper measurable benefits and project analysis.
- Ensure tasks which support our license to trade are properly completed (audit, MHRA analysis, customer insights etc).
The Ideal Candidate
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA). 2-3 years PQE.
- Understand and be able to lead the business through complex financial concepts and accounting
- 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.
- Be Commercially Results Focused
- Have a voice and influence / offer opinions
- Have Senior Peer empathy, but with Challenge
- Be able to upward Manage to Director and Board Level
- Be innovative in driving business change and accountable deliverables
We 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
Package Description
- Competitive salary up to 75k per annum dependent on experience
- Car allowance
- 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’
