Contract: Permanent

Recruitment Partner: Lizzy Parfitt

 

About the role

Our Boots Opticians are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst - Financial Accounting to join our Financial Control team. You will support the Finance Manager – Financial Accounting in ensuring the Opticians business has an effective financial management and control process, a robust month end process and has a credible platform to facilitate decision making.

This is a multi-faceted role which allows you to use and develop your technical accounting knowledge, analytical mind-set and business partnering capability. In this role you will:

 

Coordinate and manage the department through the month end financial close, including driving the completion by others of the balance sheet reconciliations and control sign off process

Assist with group reporting of actuals for the month into the group consolidation system (COGNOS)

Responsible for intercompany processes & agreement of month end balances for Boots Opticians to ensure accurate monthly reporting

Apply your technical accounting knowledge, working alongside the Finance Manager to implement any changes in accounting standards or new business initiatives

Preparation of the statutory accounts for 3 legal entities

Coordination of the external audit process including management of day-to-day requests and data submission to auditors

Support the Group Tax function by gathering information for Corporation Tax & PSA

Collation of data & information for Group policy insurance renewal

Responsibility for support office cost centres, including ownership of the cost budget/forecast process in this area

Maintenance and improvement of financial controls across various finance processes

Work closely with the Genpact R2R team to ensure all tasks are accurately completed on time

Ad hoc projects as required

 

What you’ll need to have

If you are looking for a diverse Senior Finance Analyst role and have a career mindset where you want to impress in a core function, you are going to be right for this role. This is an autonomous role so needs someone self-motivated and eager to exceed expectations. It will be ideal if you are the below:

 

Newly qualified or working to qualification

Technically strong with good project management skills

Able to manage challenging stakeholders with appropriate impact & influence

Can manage a diverse workload

 

Our benefits

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 holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.

Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

 

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

 

What's next

If your application is successful, our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion you will be notified by email.  

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..

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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