Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner, Warrington (Hybrid working)

Competitive salary package and benefits, depending on experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ACA/ACCA Qualified, first or second mover from practice who wants to step into a commercially focused finance role within a fast-paced retail organisation.

Whether you're newly qualified looking for your first move into industry, or you've already made the transition and want your next step with greater responsibility and commercial exposure, this role offers a strong platform for growth.

About the Role

As Finance Business Partner, you will support commercial, trading, operational and central teams with high-quality analysis, insight, and financial guidance. You'll work closely with senior leaders and play a key role in shaping business decisions.

You will:

• Contribute to budgeting and forecasting processes across Retail, Commercial, Marketing, People and Operations.
• Prepare weekly trading packs and monthly performance reports with clear insight and commentary.
• Consolidate and analyse data to support commercial strategies.
• Partner with trading and commercial teams on buying decisions, category planning, and margin optimisation.
• Deliver promotional analysis, ROI assessments and cost-of-sale analysis.
• Support stores with MI, performance analytics, and actionable financial insight.
• Build financial models for new store openings, scenarios and business cases.
• Monitor KPIs, OTB/WSSI and trading performance, identifying risks and opportunities.
• Communicate financial information clearly across a wide range of stakeholders.

Candidate Profile

This role is well suited to someone who is a first mover from Practice: Qualified (ACA/ACCA) in audit, accounts prep or advisory work; and now wants exposure outside of pure financial reporting and into commercial decision-making.

Equally we would be interested to speak to candidates who have already moved into industry but are looking for greater variety, broader stakeholder exposure or a more commercially strategic role. Candidates who want to develop their business partnering capability and expand their influence within an organisation.

In both cases, you will bring:

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate numbers into insight.
• Confident communication, especially with non-finance colleagues.
• Advanced Excel and the appetite to develop modelling skills further.
• A proactive approach and enthusiasm for influencing performance.

Data visualisation experience (Power BI/Tableau) or retail exposure is beneficial but not essential.

My client can offer you a fantastic benefits package including hybrid working.

To discuss this opportunity in more detail please contact Lauren Harrison from Accountable on