Finance Business Partner

Full time, permanent – hybrid working patterns

West Yorkshire

£48-55k

We are recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for a leading retail business.  This role will support trading plans, ensure financial actions are followed up and act as the key finance contact for the commercial team.

The role involves reviewing category P&Ls, managing aged debt, and providing insights on sales, margin, promotions, and market performance.

You’ll also support budgeting and forecasting, ensuring clear justifications for changes and alignment on risks and opportunities. Additionally, you’ll oversee commercial income and financial control, ensuring accurate tracking, timely billing, and robust financial reporting.

Business Partnering

• Providing guidance, support and challenge around trading plans and activities. Ensuring actions followed up on
• Commercial team key contact for wider finance related queries
• Aligning with business partners on commentary around performance, ensuring action plans and proposals are backed by data
• Business case development and sign off support
• Category P&L reviews
• Aged debt management

Performance Review & Analysis

• Daily / Weekly Performance Review
• Sales / Mgn / Commercial Income
• Promotion Evaluations – what lift was observed, was it margin generative,
• Price & Margin sensitivity – review and refine to optimise cash margin
• Market performance – how are we tracking against the IGD, where are we under indexing, and working on options to address

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Outturn reviews at category level to feed into monthly roll up. Ensuring clear justification for any changes and aligning with commercial team on risks and opportunities
• Prior month outturn actions and assumptions evaluated. If actions not followed through on why not? If assumptions not holding what can we do differently?

Commercial Income & Financial Control

• Ensure all contracted commercial income captured and tracked effectively, without any blind spots
• Billing and receipts are happening on time
• Reporting to understand which suppliers regularly late on payments
• Capturing entries for Journals, period end postings & branch allocations

About you

We need a Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a strong foundation in management or financial accounting. If you’ve got commercial finance experience, that’s a plus – but more importantly, we want someone who’s curious, proactive, and ready to challenge the status quo.

You’ll also bring:

• A ‘can-do’ mindset – a problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Strong analytical skills – able to turn data into action
• The confidence to challenge and influence at all levels
• Great communication skills – able to explain complex financials in a simple way
• Resilience and adaptability – comfortable navigating a business that’s evolving and growing
• A sense of ownership – taking responsibility for results and seeing things through

About the business:

This modern Head Office in Bradford, is home to a multitude of different support teams from finance to tech, marketing, HR and supply chain.  This is where real decisions are made and corporate teams ensure everything runs smoothly.

This finance department covers all areas of finance, from technical accounting to FP&A and commercial finance.  A career with this business can offer you multiple internal career moves and unrivalled career progression.