Finance Business Partner - Retail

Job Description
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.
Problem Solving & Change:
Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to understand and explain performance.
Provide insight and meaningful analysis into Retail branch performance, identify areas of underperformance/focus, provide context, identify opportunities and make recommendations to drive long term performance improvements.
Work at pace, make decisions and resolve problems quickly, demonstrate initiative.
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.
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