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
