A growing and commercially ambitious Chorley based retail business is seeking a high-calibre Finance Business Partner to join its finance team. The organisation has experienced strong growth in recent years and continues to invest in its commercial capabilities, creating an opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to play a key role in supporting sales performance, pricing strategy and profitability. This is a highly visible role partnering closely with sales and commercial stakeholders, providing insight, analysis and challenge to help drive informed decision-making and sustainable growth.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Business Partnering
- Act as the primary finance partner to the sales team, providing insight to support sales strategy and performance.
- Work closely with commercial stakeholders to evaluate pricing decisions, promotional activity and margin outcomes.
- Provide constructive challenge to ensure commercial decisions balance revenue growth, margin performance and cash considerations.
Analysis & Insight
- Deliver detailed analysis across sales, margin and contribution by product, customer and channel.
- Produce a high volume of responsive, ad hoc analysis to support trading decisions, pricing adjustments and commercial negotiations.
- Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insight for non-finance stakeholders.
- Continuously enhance reporting and analytical frameworks to improve visibility and decision-making.
Pricing & Commercial Support
- Support pricing strategy through detailed analysis and performance evaluation.
- Review promotional activity through pre and post-event analysis to assess effectiveness and profitability.
- Provide financial modelling to support buying and commercial decisions.
Planning & Performance
- Support budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting for sales and commercial functions.
- Monitor performance against plan, identifying risks and opportunities.
- Contribute to longer-term commercial planning, including sales mix and margin improvement initiatives.
Candidate Profile
Experience
- Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent commercial finance experience.
- Proven experience in a commercial finance or finance business partnering role, ideally within retail or a trading-led environment.
- Strong understanding of pricing, margin and commercial performance drivers.
- Advanced analytical capability with experience working with large data sets and building reports from scratch.
- Confident communicator able to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
Desirable
- Experience supporting sales or commercial teams.
- Exposure to multichannel retail environments.
- Experience developing reporting tools or working with Power BI.
Personal Attributes
- Commercially focused with a naturally inquisitive mindset.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Strong relationship-builder who works effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Proactive, resilient and able to take ownership of delivering meaningful insight.
Benefits
- 33 days holiday including Bank Holidays
- Additional day off for your birthday
- Holiday buy-back scheme and holiday loyalty programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Employee discount programme
Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact George Oyston.
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