Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!
Location: 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 stylish, modern and 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? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
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 & 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:
Role Purpose:
We’re looking for a commercially minded Financial Analyst to join our growing Healthcare Finance team. You’ll play a key role in supporting Pharmacy and Healthcare Services, delivering insight that helps shape decisions and drive performance across the business.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to a fast-paced, evolving part of the business, working closely with both finance and operational teams.
A typical day in this role includes:
Partnering with Healthcare Services and Pharmacy teams to provide financial insight and support decision-making
Producing and analysing weekly and monthly performance reports, highlighting trends, risks and opportunities, and supporting forecasting and budgeting processes
Supporting KPI tracking across healthcare, ensuring clear communication of performance to stakeholders
Managing and reporting on pharmacy and nurse wages and hours, helping drive efficiency and investment decisions
Supporting the healthcare bonus process, maintaining inputs and working with the rewards team
Completing month-end processes for OPEX and regional and central costs including balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring accuracy in financial reporting
Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting, and systems to drive efficiency
Providing ad-hoc analysis and support to the wider finance function and Healthcare leadership team
Generate detailed customer focused initiatives, in line with the Finance strategy and supports with execution.
Listens to the customer and implements new ideas and ways of working which are designed to improve service considering both Online and Offline.
Ensure the team priorities actions which delight the customer/team member
Tech & AI: Helping your team understand when to use AI, when to rely on human judgment, and how to combine both
Tech & AI Rethinking how work gets done - Actively shifting work from repetitive tasks to higher-value activities as AI takes on routine work
Tech & AI Role modelling behaviours to encourage confidence with AI. Actively developing your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs
Tech & AI Strengthen Human Touch - Keeping the human element strong: Balancing AI efficiency with human coaching, empathy, and team cohesion
In this role, you will regularly interact with:
Healthcare Leadership Team
Regional Pharmacy and Operations teams
Finance, Audit, IT and Commercial teams
External stakeholders including suppliers and wholesalers
This job is a good fit for you if:
You enjoy turning data into meaningful insights that influence decisions
You know you add value through strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
You understand how financial information supports operational and commercial performance
You are good at working with large data sets and simplifying complex information
You can easily build relationships with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
You have developed the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines
You are motivated by improving processes and finding more efficient ways of working
You get satisfaction from supporting a fast-paced, evolving business
You enjoy learning and are curious about the healthcare and pharmacy sector
Superdrug is committed to developing future finance leaders, offering full support towards a professional qualification (CIMA or ACCA), with structured progression and pay increases linked to exam milestones
What you’ll need:
Some experience working in a finance or analytical role
A degree in finance, business or a related field would be valuable
Strong working knowledge of Excel and experience with data analysis tools (e.g. Power BI)
Understanding of core financial processes such as reporting, budgeting, and reconciliations
Experience working with large data sets and producing clear, accurate outputs
The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
A proactive approach with a willingness to learn and take ownership
An interest in developing knowledge of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector
Customer Focus: Be the voice of customers and orchestrate the organisation to live the brand purpose and inspire a customer-first culture to build customer love in every touchpoint of our online and offline platform
Establishes strong relationships at all levels
Can manage tough/complex messages with all stakeholders
Role model collaboration to the team to exceed goals
Positive attitude towards feedback, uses this to generate initiatives to meet/exceed expectations, and shares feedback in a meaningful way
Effectively manages their team by playing to strengths and proactively addressing its
opportunities. Ensuring everyone wellbeing & diversity is considered and celebrated
Feels empowered to challenge across different career bands and roles. Supporting other team members in shaping their work to do so
Proactively keeps up to date with market and consumer trends in their specialism and feeds this into department strategy
Uses data and insights to challenges the status quo to keep us ahead of the competition
Uses data to inform and generate new ideas and make decisions to improve on future plans
Here's what's in it for you:
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33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
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2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
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30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
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Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
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Company pension matching and bonus
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We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
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Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
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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!
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Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
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Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
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Come and be part of something special!
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