Head of Finance – Pharmacy Business Partner

• Interpret trends, identify drivers of performance, and translate data into meaningful business insight
• Performance leadership, partnering business directors (Pharmacy leadership team) and their teams with understanding their performance
• Holding Pharmacy leaders to their financial commitments across in‑year performance, budget cycles, and 3YP planning
• Shape decisions at senior levels and challenge assumptions to ensure commercial judgement
• Build trusted relationships across Pharmacy leadership, and wider business teams to align and land complex financial strategies
• Experience communicating analytical findings for a range of different audiences who can distill complex financial issues into applicable insight for non‑finance partners
• Shape long-term plans across Pharmacy Growth, Boots Online Doctor, and Life Sciences based on evidence, market understanding, and performance trends
• Operate with a future-focused mindset, ensuring that it grounds recommendations in insight and contributes directly to growth and improved performance
• Commercial governance mindset, ensuring rigorous financial control, accuracy, and agreement on business-wide valuation and reporting methodologies
• Providing challenge and oversight on business cases, investment proposals, and programme decisions to safeguard financial performance
• Resilience and composure in a fast‑paced environment while managing multiple priorities
• Promote and ensure change, identifying improvement opportunities and leading teams through transformation Experience preparing memos that translate financial analysis into relevant insights, energy, and commitment
• Inspire high performance, leading a team of Finance Managers, coaching, and a collaborative approach
• Promote continuous improvement, promoting best practice across planning, and financial decision-making processes
• Build finance culture, encouraging challenge, accountability and business partnering behaviours

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
• Previous Head of finance experience, with team leadership, including developing, and motivating the wider team
• Engagement in the wider finance functional, Leading finance transformation programmes
• Experience partnering with senior cross‑functional leaders (e.g., Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, Digital)
• Cash and working capital management experience, with the ability to increase cash flow and support operational efficiency
• Capex governance and control capability, ensuring evaluation, approval, and tracking of investment programmes
• End‑to‑end P&L ownership experience, partnering with business leaders to lead financial performance, influence decision‑making, and embed commercial accountability
• Experience shaping and influencing long‑term business strategy
• Ability to challenge constructively, the decisions, and guide accountability at executive level
• Leading planning cycles (Budget, 3YP, quarterly forecasts) in large, complex environments
• Understanding of reporting/ERP systems (e.g., SAP, BW, TM1, or Power BI)

Experience improving forecasting accuracy and creating planning disciplines across teams

• 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