Finance Business Partner - Retail

at  Well Pharmacy

Overview of the role
As a Finance Business Partner, you will provide Business Partnering to the Retail Leadership Team (RLT) and Retail Operations.
You will play a key role in forecasting, reporting and influencing the financial and commercial outcomes for core parts of the Retail division.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the Retail budget and reforecasts for volume-related prescription activity, ensuring key deadlines are met and targets are challenging but credible.
• Develop trusted relationships with the RLT 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.
• Support the preparation of monthly updates for the Retail Operating Board, clearly explaining current financial performance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Perform ad hoc and deep-dive analysis on internal performance and the external market for Retail divisions and regions,
• Understand 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.
• Develop relationships within finance to solve internal challenges while maintaining a one team mentality.
• Create value-add reports to drive performance within the Retail estate.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Qualified Accountant or Part Qualified accountant.
• 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 analytical, report-building, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• High attention detail.
  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.

• Support the Retail budget and reforecasts for volume-related prescription activity, ensuring key deadlines are met and targets are challenging but credible.
• Develop trusted relationships with the RLT 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.
• Support the preparation of monthly updates for the Retail Operating Board, clearly explaining current financial performance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Perform ad hoc and deep-dive analysis on internal performance and the external market for Retail divisions and regions,
• Understand 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.
• Develop relationships within finance to solve internal challenges while maintaining a one team mentality.
• Create value-add reports to drive performance within the Retail estate