Finance Manager, Business Partnering – Beauty

This is an exciting opportunity to join our commercial finance team, supporting the strategy of the largest and fastest growing area of the retail business, the Beauty team. We are looking for a Finance Manager to increase performance to deliver financial targets, deliver and advise on commercial programs and bring insight, challenge and relationship building and influencing skills to the role. You will support our Beauty business unit, reporting to the Head of Finance, Beauty, and will sit within the wider Commercial Finance business partnering team and work with our FP&A and Financial Control teams. You will have direct relationships with the Beauty Business Unit Director and Head of categories.

Key responsibilities

• Support heads of categories and their teams with understanding their performance, and analysis to inform future commercial decisions.
• Approval of business cases and business investment.
• Support in investment appraisals and partnering with project teams to deliver investments from concept to post investment.
• Create a strategic and stretching plan for Beauty.
• Hold commercial teams to account for delivering their budget/forecast and 3YP.
• Improve the profitability of the Beauty team.
• Develop working relationships with commercial teams and important finance stakeholders in FP&A and Financial Control.
• Complete tasks accurately to support the categories on month end. Understanding month end variances to budget and accurately forecast these, bringing clarity on the performance.
• Support the cost challenge across beauty by holding tension on costs.

What you’ll need to have (our must-haves)

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience as a L5 with commercial awareness.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with finance partners will be critical to your success.
• Ability to hold partners to account.
• Analytical and competent with experience reporting and reviewing the quality and accuracy of data.
• Ability to identify issues and guide next steps through to a conclusion.
• Be a team player.
• Excellent excel and SAP BW skills.

It would be great if you also have

• Knowledge of Commercial TM1 reporting and Power BI.
• Previous experience working in a business partnering role.

Rewards designed for you

• 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.

At Boots, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we’re committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. We advertise some roles as full-time, and 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.