Vacancies Senior Finance Business Partner - Retail Operations

Overview of the role

As the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will provide Business Partnering to the Operational Leadership Team (OLT) and Retail Operations. You will be responsible for financial planning, providing accurate financial and commercial analysis and driving operational cost efficiency for the Retail division.

The role is hybrid working with 3 days in the office, and 2 days working from home.

Main Responsibility

• Ownership of Retail budget and reforecasts for volume-related activity and operational costs, ensuring key deadlines are met and targets are challenging but credible.
• Develop trusted relationships with the OLT and Retail Operations teams to drive performance, achieve targets and champion continuous improvement.
• Provide accurate and insightful weekly trading performance updates, challenging performance and working with the RLT and Retail Operations teams to identify risks and opportunities and actions to close any gaps to plan.
• Prepare monthly updates for the Retail Operating Board, clearly explaining current financial performance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Support growth and expansion opportunities, preparing and critically evaluating investment cases to ensure the business can make informed investment decisions.
• Perform ad hoc and deep-dive analysis on internal performance and the external market for Retail divisions and regions,
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the Pharmacy retail market including pricing, sales, margin & competitor activity and how this relates to internal performance.
• Ensure market changes are understood & action is taken with regards to commercial/financial plans.
• Drive the continuous improvement of trading reports, KPIs and analysis, ensuring updates are timely and accurate.
• Day-to-day management of 2/3 high-performing team members, providing leadership and coaching.

Key knowledge and skills required for the role:

• Qualified Accountant with at least 5 years PQE.
• Stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with ability to build and maintain effective internal and external relationships.
• Experience with partnering at senior levels.
• Confident with ability to constructively challenge to drive performance.
• Highly analytical with financial awareness and commercial acumen.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• High attention detail.

Problem solving & change:

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to understand and explain performance.
• Creative thinking to provide growth and cost opportunities.

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

• Car allowance
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• 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’