Finance Business Partner - Commercial Trade

Wells & Co.; Stoke-on-Trent; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Bestway Healthcare is seeking a Finance Business Partner covering Commercial Trading within the Wholesale area. You will partner with senior leaders, build budgets and long-term plans, forecast needs, and influence decisions with strong financial insight.

This role sits in the Wholesale Commercial Finance team, aiming to strengthen the organisation’s financial health through proactive planning. You will collaborate with Head of Sales and category leads, support buyers on supplier reporting and

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with CIMA/ACC A/ACA qualification.
• 2-3 years PQE in a finance role.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate and create insights from large data sets.
• Experience with Power BI, Excel and other analytical tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to build and manage budgets and long-term planning for Wholesale Commercial Finance.
• Produce timely forecasts and variance analysis to support decision making across multiple departments.
• Provide market and portfolio insights through data sets and reporting to inform strategy and pricing decisions.
• Monitor working capital and cash flow implications of operational decisions to mitigate risk.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Data analysis

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

You will be the primary Finance Business Partner covering Commercial Trading within the Wholesale area of the business. Partnering with senior business leaders, you will create and manage business plans and budgets across multiple departments, while forecasting future needs through a long-term planning process to support informed decision-making and improve company performance. Working as part of the Wholesale Commercial Finance team, you will help oversee the organisation's long-term financial health, challenging and influencing stakeholders to drive decisions based on financial insight. This is a hybrid working role (3 days in the office, 2 days on site). The ideal work patternw would be 2 days in Stoke on Trent and 1 day in our Redditch office, to ensure regular interactions with key stakeholders across our wholesale businesses.

• Partnering with Head of Sales and Heads of Categories to provide analysis, reporting, and helping understand the financial impact of business decisions.
• Supporting lead buyers to manage supplier reporting, stock availability, margin delivery and overrider/rebate targets are achieved with our core suppliers.
• Working closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner for Wholesale to ensure a consistent and coordinated level of financial support for the entire Wholesale team.

Budgeting and forecasting

• Build out the annual budgets and ensure actuals are tracked at right level for the newly acquired businesses to support ongoing variance analysis and business insights.
• Deliver accurate and timely forecasts in partnership with the senior team and in line with group requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to anticipate financial risks and opportunities and advise on mitigations before issues arise.

Reporting and trade analysis

• Deliver accurate, transparent and timely insights on weekly, monthly basis to drive business performance to maximum possibility.
• Create the right data sets and analysis around the portfolio of products so we can analyse the individual models and their future potential.
• Create market driven insights to help shape discussion on performance relative to the market and key competition.
• Ensure working capital balances are controlled to meet the business targets - notably debtors, creditors and stock holding need to be managed cognisant of their commercial impact on ongoing trade
• Protect the group from surprises and shocks to the finances by effective planning and three statement insight.

Strategic/Corporate

• Identify and highlight growth opportunities. Support the business in accessing them and driving into realised profits focusing on the main strategic projects as identified by the Exec
• Consider investments via payback (ROI and other mechanisms) creating proper measurable benefits and project analysis.
• Ensure tasks which support our license to trade are properly completed (audit, MHRA analysis, customer insights etc).

Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA). 2-3 years PQE.

• Understand and be able to lead the business through complex financial concepts and accounting
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate and create insights and so what's on large sets of data - experience with Power BI, excel and other analytical tools.

We 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.

With the purpose of improving the lives of our patients and customers, Bestway Healthcare supports communities across the United Kingdom and Ireland through an extensive network of community pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesale depots. Our wholesale business unit operates two pharmaceutical wholesale brands, Lexon and Bestway Medhub which combined support over 5,000 independent community pharmacy contractors, processing over 100m packs of medication every year making us the 4th largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the United Kingdom. Our wholesale business unit also operates a leading appliance wholesaler, Wardle's, a generic supplier Key Pharmaceuticals. We operate from 3 distribution centres with a fleet of vans delivering to independent pharmacies & directly to the most vulnerable patients every day.