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Finance Assistant

Overview of the role:

Reporting to the Senior Finance Analyst within the Supplier Funding and Recovery Audit team, the Finance Assistant is part of a team who are accountable for supporting the delivery of efficient and effective supplier funding processes across the Boots UK & Ireland business. Based at our Beeston site in Nottingham, you will be part of a high-profile team who are accountable for raising c.£600 million of Supplier Funding invoices.

This is a great opportunity to begin your Finance career with a leading retailer, with the role providing exposure to both commercial and controllership aspects of finance. You will be supported from day one as you progress in your new role, with some great opportunities for additional learning and development to expand your knowledge within Finance, including opportunities to be involved in our internal and external audit and statutory accounts processes.

If you are looking to start a career in finance, or looking for a career change, this could be a great next step.

About the opportunity:

This isn’t a typical Finance Assistant role. You will be required to work with all levels of the Commercial Trading and Finance functions to ensure the end to end delivery of Supplier Funding tasks. You will be working alongside other Finance Assistants within a large team, led by several Senior Finance Analysts and a Finance Manager. Key responsibilities of the role:

• ensure that all Supplier Funding invoices are raised in a timely and accurate manner working to tight deadlines and in accordance with best practice;
• actively build and maintain strong working relationships and effective communications with internal and external customers. e.g. suppliers, customers, finance colleagues and Boots trading teams to increase efficiency and enable us to build trusted ways of working to comply with best practice;
• produce financial calculations through Excel within an agreed time frame and work with stakeholders to obtain approval of these calculations;
• build and maintain good working relationships with other team members to promote efficient working and an understanding of the wider departmental processes to achieve the team objectives;
• ensure all required internal controls are adhered to maintain a robust control environment.

About you:

• A driven multi-tasker, who has an organised approach to meeting deadlines.
• Influential and confident to manage challenge, competing priorities and high volumes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills with a will to deliver and the ability to work collaboratively and cross functionally.
• SAP experience would be beneficial, but not essential as full training will be given.
• Working knowledge of computer software systems and accounting procedures an advantage.

Benefits:

• Competitive holiday allowance (with the option to buy more days)
• Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay
• £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
• Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discount cards, activity passes and much more (exclusions may apply, eligible roles only)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering free, independent and confidential counselling and support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Generous staff discount (with enhanced discounts for Boots brands, Boot Opticians and Boots Hearingcare)
• Access to corporate third-party discounts, including retail, cinema, holidays and more (UK only)
• Access to the Boots Benevolent Fund, a registered charity that offers support to eligible current and former colleagues in the UK, as well as their immediate relatives, at times of financial hardship.
• Excellent onsite facilities, including; staff shop, opticians, gym, coffee shops, cafeteria, outdoor seating spaces, dry cleaning service and excellent travel links including on campus bus stops

Hybrid Working

At Boots we're proud to offer our Support Office team members a hybrid working approach, because how we work is central to our ability to compete, innovate and win together. Our hybrid, flexible approach to work is based upon empowerment, accountability, care and trust and includes a balanced mix of remote and office-based working (our Head Office is based in Nottingham).

Why Boots

Our mission is to help everyone to feel good. This starts internally – with every colleague and every team. In our stores and pharmacies, our warehouses and our Support Office, we work together, putting our customers first and our colleagues at the heart of everything we do. We aim to attract, develop and retain the best people, with a huge range of opportunities for you to continue to grow with us… just bring your passion and commitment and we’ll do the rest.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the centre of everything we do in our business. 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.

What’s next

Closing date for applications is Wednesday 22nd February. 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.

If you have any questions regarding this position please email [email protected]

• Boots has a commitment to our candidates and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. We have a defined list of preferred agency partners who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

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