Finance Business Partner

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