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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.
There's lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third‑party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
Boots is an equal opportunity employer.
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Location: Nottingham
Job Description:
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.
There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third‑party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
Boots is an equal opportunity employer.
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Posted: May 20th, 2026