Role Overview
We're looking for you to join the Boots UK Finance team as Head of Finance – Planning & Forecasting. This senior leadership role coordinates enterprise‑wide and leads Boots UK's financial planning, forecasting, and performance insight, supporting strategic decision‑making across the business.
Financial Planning & Performance Management
* Coordinate enterprise‑level and lead BUK's financial planning, including Budget, Forecasts, and 3 Year Planning (3YP) cycles.
* Owns planning assumptions, scenarios, and sensitivities, ensuring agreement to priorities and market dynamics.
* Drives accountability across the business, holding leaders to financial commitments through disciplined planning and review cycles.
* Highly analytical, translating complex financial data into clear applicable business insight.
Planning Governance & Financial Control
* Ensure governance, consistency, and integrity across all planning and forecasting activities.
* Owns planning methodologies and standards, aligning with group and valuation frameworks.
* Works with FP&A teams and Financial Control to ensure strong understanding between plans, forecasts, and actual performance.
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 financial logic and aligns them to overall business strategy.
* Leads the transformation of forecasting, strengthening accuracy, discipline, and decision‑making through improved tools and ways of working.
* Maintains 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 Planning and 3 Year Planning (3YP).
* Creates a high‑performance, collaborative culture with clear accountability and coaching.
* Encourages challenge, business partnering, and continuous improvement.
* Exceptional influencing capability, able to shape decisions at senior levels and confidently challenge assumptions.
* Builds trusted relationships across FP&A, Finance and leadership teams.
* Clear, compelling communicator who can distil complex financial issues for non‑finance team members.
* Acts as a credible finance leader, representing FP&A across the wider business and finance community.
Qualifications
* Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
* Experience within FP&A or enterprise planning functions.
* 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 planning disciplines.
* People leadership experience with direct line management responsibility.
* Understanding of end‑to‑end P&L and financial performance drivers.
* Experience of reporting systems (e.g. TM1, Power BI, SAP).
Benefits
* 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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Boots is an equal opportunity employer.
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