Strategic Finance Partner: Forecasting & Budgeting

Henry Schein, Inc.; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Henry Schein, Inc. is seeking a finance partner to senior stakeholders to provide insight and guidance that supports strategic and operational decision-making.

You will translate financial results into actionable commentary on performance, risks, and opportunities and build financial models for forecasting, budgeting, and business cases. You will collaborate with business leads on monthly forecasts and annual budgets, load budgets into ERP, review GBS outputs, and drive standardisation and

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to support strategic and operational decision‑making
• Translate financial results into clear, actionable commentary on performance, risks, and opportunities
• Build and maintain financial models to support forecasting and budgeting
• Develop business cases and investment proposals
• Perform scenario, sensitivity, and options analysis
• Analyse and interpret trading performance data to identify key drivers, trends, and risks for forecasting and decision making
• Collaborate with business leads on monthly forecasts and communicate risks and opportunities to the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting
• Collaborate with business leads on annual budget and preparation of budget presentation to MD
• Load budgets into ERP and complete group deliverables
• Review and challenge outputs prepared by the GBS team, including monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, journals and accruals, and month-end close deliverables
• Drive continuous improvement in GBS processes, focusing on standardisation, automation, and efficiency
• Partner with GBS to improve service quality, knowledge transfer, and issue prevention
• Promote a strong control mindset while enabling a value‑adding, business‑focused finance function
• Ad hoc tasks as required by Senior Manager Financial Reporting or CFO UK&I

Job description

Henry Schein, Inc. is seeking a finance partner to senior stakeholders to provide insight and guidance that supports strategic and operational decision-making.

You will translate financial results into actionable commentary on performance, risks, and opportunities and build financial models for forecasting, budgeting, and business cases. You will collaborate with business leads on monthly forecasts and annual budgets, load budgets into ERP, review GBS outputs, and drive standardisation and