Strategic Finance Partner: Forecasting, Budgets & Insights

Henry Schein, Inc.; Ditton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Henry Schein, Inc. is seeking a Finance partner to senior stakeholders in its UK operation.

The role focuses on translating financial results into actionable commentary, building robust financial models for forecasting and budgeting, and supporting business cases and investment proposals. The successful candidate will analyze trading performance, drive forecasting accuracy, and collaborate with business leads on monthly forecasts and annual budgets, including board-level budget presentations.

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, Business cases and investment proposals, Scenario, sensitivity, and options analysis
• Analyse and interpret trading performance data, identifying key financial and operational drivers, trends, and risks to support forecasting, performance management, and business decisions
• Collaboration with Business leads on monthly forecasts and communicate risks and opportunities to the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting
• Collaboration with Business leads on annual budget and preparation of budget presentation to MD
• Loading budgets into ERP and completing group deliverables
• Review and challenge outputs prepared by the GBS team, including: Monthly management accounts, Balance sheet reconciliations, Journals and accruals, Month-end close deliverables per close checklist
• 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 and when required by Senior manager Financial reporting or CFO UK&I

Job description

Henry Schein, Inc. is seeking a Finance partner to senior stakeholders in its UK operation.

The role focuses on translating financial results into actionable commentary, building robust financial models for forecasting and budgeting, and supporting business cases and investment proposals. The successful candidate will analyze trading performance, drive forecasting accuracy, and collaborate with business leads on monthly forecasts and annual budgets, including board-level budget presentations.