Commercial Finance Business Partner

Commercial Finance Business Partner / Manchester City Centre (Hybrid) / Salary £60,000 - £70,000

Accountable Recruitment are working in partnership with our client who are a high-growth, retail business based in Manchester City Centre. We are looking for an experienced, Fully Qualified Commercial Finance Business Partner to join their high-performing team! This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, product-focused business with a strong commercial culture and a global footprint.

This newly created role partners closely with Sales, Marketing and Merchandising teams to drive performance, influence decision-making and enhance financial insight across the business.

As the Commercial Finance Business Partner, you will take full ownership of your business units' financial performance - shaping forecasting, reporting, planning and commercial analysis. This is a true business partnering position for someone who enjoys visibility, influence and working closely with operational teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the wholesale P&L across reporting, forecasting and commercial performance.
• Lead the divisions budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment with both local and group plans.
• Maintain robust risk and opportunity tracking for the channel.
• Support scenario modelling and mid-term planning.
• Embed strong planning assumptions and bottom-up detail across customers and Regional Business Units.
• Deliver monthly reporting packs and insightful commentary to senior stakeholders.
• Build channel-specific dashboards and KPIs to support decision-making.
• Act as the lead finance partner to Sales, Marketing and Merchandising for wholesale.
• Lead financial elements of sales bonus target-setting and tracking.
• Provide commercial support on trade terms, contracts and customer strategies.
• Collaborate on buy plans and inventory commitments to align with financial forecasts.
• Drive monthly performance reviews, highlighting risks, opportunities and required actions.
• Build and evaluate business cases for investment, tracking ROI against expected outcomes.
• Analyse customer and product profitability, identifying cost-to-serve and margin improvement opportunities.

Key Skills:

We're looking for a proactive, commercially minded finance professional who thrives in a dynamic, high-growth environment.

• ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent) with experience working within commercial finance.
• Strong business partnering experience, ideally supporting Sales or Merchandising in a wholesale/B2B setting.
• Excellent understanding of customer profitability, trade terms and channel dynamics.
• Highly analytical, able to convert data into actionable insight.
• Confident building business cases with a strong ROI and commercial logic.
• Strong communicator who can influence decisions and challenge constructively.
• Advanced Excel capability and experience with BI/ERP systems.
• Passion for consumer, lifestyle or brand-led industries.

To discuss this role in more detail please contact Lauren Harrison from Accountable Recruitment on - interviews are being arranged immediately.