Job Description
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 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