Finance Analyst

Well Pharmacy; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmacy chain is seeking a skilled finance professional to manage personnel costs and drive operational efficiencies. This hybrid role involves reporting, budgeting, and stakeholder engagement. Ideal candidates will be part-qualified accountants with strong Excel and Power BI skills. Join a company that values diversity and offers excellent training and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Excellent training & development opportunities

Paid Holidays

Workplace pension scheme

Staff Discount

Travel Loans

Qualifications

• Part qualified accountant and/or previous payroll experience.
• Excellent communication skills are essential.
• Ability to analyze high volumes of data.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for production of regular store contribution reports.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts.
• Work with stakeholders to prepare personnel budgets and forecasts.

Skills

Part qualified accountant

Excellent excel skills

Power BI

Problem solving

Relationship building

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Overview of the role

Continually drive efficiencies in personnel and operations costs through business partnering and process improvement. Own retail personnel costs (£140m annual spend) and ensure adherence to budget / forecast through insightful MI and stakeholder management.

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

Main Responsibilities

Regular MI and Reporting

• Focal point for all personnel MI with the retail operation, translating large amounts of data into insightful analysis
• Ensure delivery of relevant weekly / monthly reports
• Responsible for production of regular store contribution reports
• Respond in a timely manner to stakeholder requests
• Maintain data quality ensuring data policies are adhered to and troubleshooting data-related problems

Business Partnering

• Attend regular sessions with senior finance business partner and heads of operations to understand and challenge monthly performance
• Develop, foster and maintain working relationships

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Work with finance and operations stakeholders to prepare personnel budgets and forecasts
• Key point of contact for MaxE model, collaborating with operations and external parties to update measures

Financial month end

• Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts
• Report and track budget performance, provide timely variance analysis, understanding cost drivers
• Participates in or contributes to other appropriate activities as required by the business

Key knowledge and skills required for the role:

• Part qualified accountant and / or previous payroll experience
• Excellent excel and communication skills
• Power BI and other data visualistion tools
• Experience of resource planning models
• Able to build & maintain great relationships with colleagues & key external stakeholders

Problem solving & change:

• Ability to analyse high volumes of data

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

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• 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