Finance Business Partner
hace 3 días
Chorley
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.The OpportunityThe Finance Business Partner will act as a trusted advisor to the sales function and commercial teams. The role combines commercial finance, pricing analysis and business partnering, supporting trading performance through high-quality insight and data-driven recommendations.The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment where the ability to interpret data quickly and translate it into clear commercial actions is essential.Key ResponsibilitiesCommercial 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 ProfileExperience, • 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 programmeOur 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