Senior IT Finance Partner: Insightful Forecasting & Reporting

BOOTS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

Flexible benefits scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Boots is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join the IT Finance team. You will partner with IT leaders to understand performance, costs, and KPIs, delivering insightful analysis and clear commentary to support strategic decisions.

You will manage the offshore Genpact Finance Team, assist with budgeting and forecasting, and help improve finance processes and reporting for faster, more accurate insights across the IT function.

Qualifications

• Recently qualified or part-qualified accountant, such as CIMA, ACCA or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in management reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Strong Excel skills, with the ability to analyse data and produce accurate reporting.
• Strong PowerPoint skills, with the ability to present insight clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Confidence working with financial data, commentary and variance analysis in a complex business environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and support effective business partnering.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end planning, reporting and variance analysis to ensure accurate and timely financial results.
• Build a strong understanding of the IT cost base, providing insight, data and commentary to support wider FP&A reporting.
• Manage the offshore Genpact Finance Team, supporting high-quality output, effective collaboration and team development.
• Support business partnering activity across month-end, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Help drive understanding of KPIs, translating financial performance into clear, useful insight for stakeholders.
• Assist with the management of direct and indirect recharges across the wider business.
• Work with the Finance Business Partner on SG&A project initiatives when required.
• Maintain data integrity across SAP and Planning Analytics, contributing to future finance system enhancements.
• Identify and drive opportunities for process improvement and automation to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with Finance, Business and Group teams to deliver a consolidated view of performance.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Data analysis

Management reporting

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Education

CIMA/ACCA or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Planning Analytics

Job description

Boots is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join the IT Finance team. You will partner with IT leaders to understand performance, costs, and KPIs, delivering insightful analysis and clear commentary to support strategic decisions.

You will manage the offshore Genpact Finance Team, assist with budgeting and forecasting, and help improve finance processes and reporting for faster, more accurate insights across the IT function.