Head of Finance - FP&A Planning & Forecasting

We're looking for you to join the Boots UK Finance team as Head of Finance - Planning & Forecasting. This is a senior leadership role within the finance function. It is responsible for coordinating enterprise-wide and leading Boots UK's financial planning, forecasting, and performance insight. This insight supports strategic decision-making across the business. You will play a critical part in shaping the financial direction of the organisation, ensuring insight-led planning processes that increase performance, accountability, and long-term value creation. The Head of Finance - Planning & Forecasting will work with Finance Business Partners, FLT, FP&A and Financial Control. You will report into the FP&A Director and will lead core forecasting and 3-Year Planning (3YP) processes, with direct line management responsibility for roles supporting the delivery of key outputs., 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., · Lead 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., · 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).

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.

• 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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