Finance Analyst - Strategic Projects

at  Well Pharmacy

Overview of the role
As our Finance Analyst your purpose will be to provide the relevant financial and analytical support to aid and guide decision making within Finance, Property and Portfolio teams and drive improved investment decision making within the business. You will make financial projections based on markets and trends.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• ACCA or CIMA part qualified or experience qualified.
• Advanced Excel skills, analytical skills, and good attention to detail.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
  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.
  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.

Main Responsibilities

• Facilitate the budget and forecast process. You will also support Central budgets inc. exceptional costs, CAPEX, depreciation and other. During budgeting process, you will partner with your manager, Head of FP&A, in consolidating budgets and overseeing the figures for the entire business and provide any required support.
• Market share and Competitor benchmarking analysis for Retail & Wholesale. Involves updating financial accounts from Companies house for all our competitors and benchmarking their performance to Well. These reports are then shared and presented to CFO and CEO of the business as well as Wholesale and Retail operational directors.
• You will be involved in NDA projects working with FP&A Head, CFO, Legal team and any external finance or legal advisors. You will do market scanning for new M&A opportunities, and you will use your financial modelling and analytical skills, while building business cases and presenting new opportunities to the business.
• Monthly reporting and tracking of synergies and integration costs. You will be consolidating these figures from different teams across the company (Operations, IT, Buying, Procurement and People team as well as Margin and Retail business partners) and will be able to answer any queries from key stakeholders.
• You will support the head of FP&A in updating monthly board packs, including updating monthly business KPIs, P&Ls, Capex and any other queries which might come from the board.
• As part of monthly process, you will review exceptional costs of the business, keep record of what was posted and instruct support team in Pakistan to accrue where necessary.