Audit & Risk Manager

Well Pharmacy; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Well Pharmacy, part of Bestway Healthcare, is expanding its Audit, Risk & Compliance team. The role focuses on independent assurance, governance, and controls across the business, with hybrid working (on-site 3 days a week, 2 days remote).

You will partner with senior leaders to strengthen risk management and drive improvements across retail and wholesale operations. Ideal candidates will hold an audit/accountancy qualification (or be working towards one) and have experience in Internal Audit,

Qualifications

• Professional audit or accountancy qualification (or working towards one).
• Experience within Internal Audit, Risk Management, Assurance, Revenue Assurance or Financial Controls.
• Risk management experience advantageous.
• Excellent report writing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders.
• Ability to challenge constructively, influence stakeholders and drive positive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver risk-based financial and operational audits across the business.
• Evaluate controls, identify areas of risk and recommend practical improvements.
• Conduct revenue assurance reviews to identify opportunities to protect income and reduce revenue leakage.
• Produce clear and concise audit reports for senior leadership audiences.
• Support the development and ongoing management of the enterprise risk framework.
• Partner with stakeholders across retail, wholesale and support functions to improve risk awareness and control effectiveness.
• Support business continuity and operational resilience activities.
• Monitor and follow up on agreed audit actions, ensuring progress is tracked and risks are appropriately escalated.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, compliance and effective risk management.

Skills

Internal Audit experience

Risk Management

Stakeholder management

Report writing

Challenge & influence

Education

Audit/Accounting qualification (or working towards)

Job description

Overview of the role

Bestway Healthcare are expanding their Audit, Risk & Compliance team and are looking for an experienced Audit & Risk professional to help strengthen governance, financial controls and operational resilience across the business.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in providing independent assurance across a diverse and fast-paced organisation. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will identify risks, evaluate controls, deliver insightful audits and support the ongoing development of the organisation's risk management framework.

This is a hybrid role and if successful you will be required to work on site 3 days a week (2 days at home). We can consider candidates local to either our Manchester or Stoke office.

Main Responsibility

• Deliver risk-based financial and operational audits across the business.
• Evaluate controls, identify areas of risk and recommend practical improvements.
• Conduct revenue assurance reviews to identify opportunities to protect income and reduce revenue leakage.
• Produce clear and concise audit reports for senior leadership audiences.
• Support the development and ongoing management of the enterprise risk framework.
• Partner with stakeholders across retail, wholesale and support functions to improve risk awareness and control effectiveness.
• Support business continuity and operational resilience activities.
• Monitor and follow up on agreed audit actions, ensuring progress is tracked and risks are appropriately escalated.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, compliance and effective risk management.

The Ideal Candidate

• Professional audit or accountancy qualification (or working towards one)
• Experience within Internal Audit, Risk Management, Assurance, Revenue Assurance or Financial Controls.
• Risk management experience advantageous .
• Excellent report writing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders.
• Ability to challenge constructively, influence stakeholders and drive positive outcomes.

Bestway Healthcare is 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.

'Together we make a difference'