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Contract: 12-month FTC / Secondment

Location: Nottingham (Support Office)

Closing date: 13/01/26

Recruitment Partner: Daniel White, Daniel.White1@boots.com

Reporting to Finance Business Partner - Central Operations, this role is part of a team of 8 led by Head of Finance - Stores, Central Operations and Central Costs, and a department of c20 led by Director of Finance - Operations. There are 5 other senior analysts within the department.

You will lead on monthly reporting, quarterly forecasting, annual budgeting, 3-year-planning, and any other financial planning and analysis tasks across both the Stores and Central Operations functions. You will own a number of cost centres, and provide key insights and reporting to senior management that drives performance and informed decision-making.

This is a secondment / fixed-term contract maternity cover for 12 months, based in Nottingham

• Leading month-end planning, reporting, and variance analysis processes.
• Supporting the development of detailed budgets and forecasts for costs and key performance indicators.
• Develop overall understanding of the cost base and provide insight, data and commentary to support wider FP&A reporting.
• Managing and maintaining financial input templates, ensuring accuracy and transparency
• Contributing to or leading ad-hoc financial projects within the wider Operations Finance team.
• Ensure data integrity within our systems (SAP and Planning Analytics) and support work on future finance system developments.
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for process improvement and automation.
• Support with the business partnering (including month-end processes, budget and forecasting) of partner functions.

• Status of part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience in management reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• A continuous improvement orientation.
• A collaborative and inclusive approach to teamwork.

• Status of fully-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent).Prior experience with SAP, particularly SAP S4 HANA, and Analysis for Office.
• Prior experience with IBM Planning Analytics.
• Experience of both financial processing and of management information, and of driving improvements in both.

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

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The Boots Group is a trusted leader in healthcare, pharmacy and retail, operating across 11 countries - including the UK, Ireland, Thailand and Mexico. The Boots Group brands - including Boots, Boots Opticians, No7 Beauty Company, Farmacias Benavides and Alliance Healthcare - are trusted and well recognised healthcare and beauty businesses, serving millions of customers and patients every day in communities around the world. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

We hope to hear from you soon.

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