Head of Finance – FP&A Commercial in Nottingham

Contract: 12 month Secondment

Location: Nottingham - Permanent - Fulltime

Recruitment Partner: Vyoma Gandhi

What you'll be doing

We're looking for an individual to join the Boots UK Finance team as Head of Finance – FP&A Commercial (Interim). This is a senior leadership role within the FP&A team. It is responsible for providing clear, high-quality reporting, analysis, and insight to the business. This ensures clarity and alignment in in-year performance, financial forecasting, and budgets. You will play a critical part in shaping the financial direction of our Commercial business, ensuring insight-led planning processes that improve performance, accountability, and long-term value creation. The Head of Finance – FP&A Commercial will work with Finance Business Partners, the Commercial & FP&A Finance Directors, the broader FP&A team, and Financial Control. The role reports into the FP&A Director. It leads teams responsible for weekly and monthly reporting, core planning, forecasting, and 3-Year Planning (3YP). Additionally, it has direct line management responsibility for Finance Managers across the Commercial FP&A team.

Key responsibilities

• Weekly and Monthly Reporting
  • Review weekly reporting across Commercial, ensuring stakeholders receive outputs on a timely basis and to a high standard.
  • Provide the Commercial & FP&A Finance Directors ad hoc analysis where required.
  • Coordinate month end reviews with the Business Partners to provide a timely close that provides clarity around drivers and actions.
• Financial Planning & Performance Management
  • Coordinate and Lead BUK's Retail financial planning, including Budget, quarterly forecasts, and 3-Year Planning (3YP) cycles.
  • Own relevant planning assumptions, scenarios, and sensitivities, ensuring understanding of strategic priorities and market dynamics.
  • Drives accountability across the Retail business, holding leaders to financial commitments through disciplined planning and review cycles.
  • Improves forecasting accuracy and planning discipline across the business.
  • Highly analytical, with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, applicable business insight.
• Insight, Decision Support & Strategic Thinking
  • Shapes long-term plans using evidence-based analysis, scenario modelling, and performance trend evaluation.
  • Operates with a future-focused mindset, anticipating risks and opportunities through forward-looking insight.
  • Grounds recommendations in robust financial logic and aligns them to overall Retail business strategy.
• Influence & Leadership
  • Influencing capability, able to shape decisions at senior levels and confidently challenge assumptions.
  • Builds trusted relationships across FP&A, Finance, and FLT.
  • Clear, compelling communicator who can distil complex financial issues for non-finance stakeholders.
• Planning Governance & Financial Control
  • Own planning methodologies and standards within the Retail department.
  • Works with Financial Control to ensure alignment between plans, forecasts, and actual performance.
• Resilience & Change Leadership
  • Maintain focus and clarity in a fast-paced, complex environment with multiple priorities.
  • Adapts quickly to changing priorities, ensuring planning remains value-adding.
  • Champions continuous improvement in planning capability across finance and the wider business.
• Leadership & Team Development
  • Lead and develop Finance Managers responsible for Reporting, Planning, and 3 Year Planning (3YP).
  • Creates a high-performance, collaborative culture with clear accountability and coaching.
  • Encourages challenge, business partnering, and continuous improvement.
  • Builds future planning capability through talent development and succession planning.

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

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience within FP&A supporting the Commercial Function.
• Experience running Budget, forecasting, and 3 Year Planning (3YP) cycles in a complex organisation.
• Experience communicating Executive-level decisions through insight-led analysis.
• Experience improving forecasting accuracy and advocating strong planning disciplines.
• Proven people leadership experience with direct line management responsibility.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end P&L and financial performance drivers.
• Advanced knowledge of planning and reporting systems (e.g. SAP, BW, TM1, Power BI).

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.

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A bit about us

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.

What's next

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. Be brilliant with Boots.