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At American Golf, we support our retail and commercial teams with clear, insightful financial information that helps drive strong decision-making and sustainable performance. We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team at our Retail Support Centre in Warrington. Reporting to the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis, this role plays a key part in supporting trading, commercial, and operational teams across the business. Working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders at all levels, you will provide timely financial insight, robust analysis, and constructive commercial challenge. You will help ensure budgets, forecasts, and trading decisions are well informed, balanced, and aligned to business objectives. This role is well suited to a qualified finance professional with strong analytical capability, commercial awareness, and the confidence to work with non-finance stakeholders.
Job Responsibility:
Play an integral role in the group budgeting and forecasting process across Retail, Commercial, Marketing, People, and Warehousing functions
Produce weekly trade packs and monthly board packs, including variance analysis, performance commentary, and actionable insight
Consolidate and analyse monthly market data to support commercial decision-making
Partner with Category Managers to provide commercial insight that supports buying decisions, margin management, and category planning
Deliver pre- and post-promotional analysis to assess performance, profitability, and return on investment
Analyse true product cost of sale, identifying opportunities to reduce costs and improve margins
Provide recommendations on trading, pricing, and promotional activity to support performance improvement
Support retail stores with analytics, MI, and performance insight to help drive sales and margin
Build and maintain financial models for new store openings and trading scenarios
Manage and analyse OTB / WSSI on a weekly basis, highlighting risks and opportunities
Monitor performance against targets and KPIs, providing ongoing support to trading teams
Build strong working relationships with Category Managers and wider commercial teams
Communicate financial information clearly and confidently, tailoring insight for different audiences
Requirements:
Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with a strong technical accounting foundation
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insight
Advanced Excel skills, with experience handling large data sets and building financial models
Confident communication skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders
A proactive, dependable approach, able to work independently while contributing effectively within a team
Nice to have:
Strong commercial awareness, ideally gained within a retail or consumer-focused environment (desirable)
Experience using data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau (desirable)
An interest in the sports or retail sector (desirable)