Senior Finance Analyst

Job Description

Contract: 6-month FTC/Secondment
Location: Nottingham (Support Office)
Closing date: 13/02/26
Recruitment Partner: Vyoma Gandhi

Senior Finance Analyst

To provide hands-on operational and systems support during the rollout, stabilisation, and continuous improvement of the new SAP S/4 Advanced Credit Management module. The contractor will ensure smooth credit operations, manage system data accuracy, support credit limit and scoring processes, monitor blocked orders and decision workflows, and liaise between Finance, OTC, IT, and Collections teams.

What you'll be doing

This role ensures that new automated credit processes (external credit feeds, rules, formulas, scoring, credit limits, DCD workflows, and background jobs) run correctly and support BAU business operations.

Working in Finance Digital Operations who sit within the wider finance team and will be reporting into the Finance Manager.

Key responsibilities

1. Credit Management Operations

Maintain and update internal and external credit attributes, including credit check rules, credit groups, and calculation rules as documented in advanced module guidelines.
Support credit score updates, risk class assignment, and external data integration (e.g., D&B feeds).
Perform and manage credit limit calculations and ensure rules/thresholds are applied correctly.

2. Background Job Scheduling & Monitoring

• Schedule, run, and monitor SAP credit jobs such as:

o Credit limit calculation job

o Credit score calculation job

o Blocked/Approved/Released sales order credit checks

o Payment behaviour updates

• Import credit hierarchies Troubleshoot job failures, follow up with IT, and ensure daily job runs complete successfully

3. Blocked Order & DCD Process Support

• Manage escalations relating to blocked sales orders and ensure Documented Credit Decisions (DCDs) are processed with the correct approval hierarchy. Support business users in navigating DCD workflows.

4. Master Data & Rule Maintenance

• Maintain customer credit master data and support ongoing credit attribute changes.
• Ensure rule changes are approved offline and updated in the system in line with governance protocols.

5. Collections & Worklist Support

• Support Collections Management processes, including generating and distributing worklists.
• Help resolve customer issues affecting overdue balances.

6. Testing, Issue Resolution & Stabilisation

• Participate in UAT, regression testing, and post-go-live defect triage.
• Document issues, raise tickets, provide diagnostic information, and validate fixes.
• Liaise with OTC, IT, and FDO teams on solution refinement.

What you'll need to have (our must-haves)

• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, ideally FSCM / Advanced Credit Management.
• Experience in credit control, collections, or finance operations beneficial.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial software (e.g., SAP, SAGE).
• Ability to handle difficult conversations diplomatically
• Adherence to internal SOX controls

It would be great if you also have

• Experience working in a high-volume collection's environment
• Finance Qualifications
• Familiarity with industry-specific credit and collections practices

Rewards designed for you

• 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 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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About The Boots Group

The Boots Group is a trusted leader in healthcare, pharmacy and retail, operating across 11 countries - including the UK, Ireland, Thailand and Mexico. The Boots Group brands - including Boots, Boots Opticians, No7 Beauty Company, Farmacias Benavides and Alliance Healthcare - are trusted and well recognised healthcare and beauty businesses, serving millions of customers and patients every day in communities around the world. 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

If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. 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.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

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

We hope to hear from you soon.

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