Finance Analyst Healthcare

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Finance Analyst Healthcare

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Finance Analyst - Healthcare
Location: Head Office, East Croydon
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am-5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities, with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our modern, collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Salary: Competitive
Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend-setting retailer?
We're a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health and beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people - they make the difference. We're all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug Feeling.
Here's the exciting bit... A day includes:
As a Finance Analyst in our Healthcare Finance team, you'll deliver financial reporting, analysis and commercial support across healthcare services and pharmacy.
You'll turn data into clear insight, provide practical recommendations and support effective decision-making across a broad and evolving area of the business. You'll also take responsibility for analysing healthcare stock, shrink and related financial risks.
Working closely with colleagues across clinics, pharmacy operations, Healthcare leadership and Finance, you'll take ownership of key deliverables, build trusted relationships and contribute to projects and continuous improvement.
This is a hands-on opportunity for a part-qualified accountant to develop commercial finance experience and make a visible contribution within a growing healthcare business.
Key Responsibilities:
Act as the day-to-day finance contact for Healthcare Services and Pharmacy teams, providing financial support, insight and constructive challenge.
Deliver accurate and timely weekly and monthly reporting for Healthcare Private Services, ensuring information is clear, relevant and useful.
Compile, analyse and communicate healthcare KPIs, highlighting trends, risks and opportunities to support performance management and leadership decisions.
Own defined month-end activities, including producing the Clinics profit and loss account, completing supporting balance sheet reconciliations and investigating variances.
Analyse healthcare stock and shrink performance, investigate variances and identify financial risks.
Work with operational teams to strengthen stock controls and reduce losses.
Identify and deliver improvements that simplify reporting, increase efficiency and make financial information easier to understand and use.
Prepare and present financial insight at meetings, translating detailed analysis into practical recommendations and actions.
Support the wider Finance function and Healthcare leadership team, contributing to projects outside your usual remit when required.
This job is a good fit for you if you:
Enjoy turning data into clear, useful insight that helps others make better decisions.
Take ownership of your work, follow issues through to resolution and know when to seek guidance or escalate risks.
Bring commercial curiosity, strong attention to detail and the confidence to challenge constructively.
Enjoy working with finance and non-finance colleagues, adapting your communication to different audiences.
Can manage competing priorities, meet deadlines and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
Can simplify complex issues and explain them in a practical, easy-to-understand way.
Are motivated by learning, improving processes, solving problems and contributing to the wider team's success.
• What you'll need:
To be part-qualified in CIMA, ACCA or ACA and actively progressing towards completing your qualification.
Practical experience in financial reporting and analysis, ideally within retail, healthcare, pharmacy or another fast-paced commercial environment.
Experience supporting business stakeholders and using financial insight to inform actions and decisions.
Confidence working with large datasets, identifying trends and translating findings into clear recommendations.
Hands-on experience of month-end processes, profit and loss reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis.
An understanding of stock, shrink and inventory reporting, or a willingness to learn, with the ability to investigate variances and support effective financial controls.
Strong Excel skills and confidence using finance systems and reporting tools.
Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
A proactive, organised approach, with the ability to manage priorities, improve processes and deliver reliably in a fast-paced environment.
Here's what's in it for you:
33 days' holiday, rising to 38 days with length of service, inclusive of bank holidays.
2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend.
30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand products, both in store and online.
Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities, with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our modern, collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Company pension matching and bonus.
Access to Stream, a money-management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
Being part of more! We are part of a group that works closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK.
We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer, with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes.
Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy-loss support.
Come and be part of something special!
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