american golf is Europe's largest golf retailer with over 100 stores across the UK and Ireland. What we're looking for We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join american golf's Finance team. The successful candidate will have previous experience in a similar role and carry advanced Microsoft Excel skills as well as experience using data extraction/modelling tools (SAS, SQL). What to expect As a Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with both operations and management. You will provide 'real time' support and analysis, be a trusted adviser and add value that will assist in decision making. Critical to success in this role is the ability to communicate your message, to understand your audience and deliver information in a clear and user-friendly manner. A strong mix of analytical, commercial and communication skills will be pivotal to this role. You will be based at our Retail Support Centre in Warrington working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. Your role will include: Developing strong relationships with the Category Managers and Buyers to deliver projects that align to their priorities and category plans; Identify promotional opportunity through gap analysis to flatten the sales peaks & troughs vs ourselves and the market. Achieved through an analytical numbers based promotional plan; Deliver high quality, actionable insight to the Category teams enabling them to make better trading decisions including supporting them with the quarterly buying strategies; Supporting retail stores to drive sales and margin at a local level - providing analytics and MI to help stores drive this; Determine true product cost of sale with a view to minimise costs and maximise margin e.g. distribution costs of small inexpensive items vs potential profit - identify solution - ideal carton pack size and distribution cost; OTB (Open to Buy / WSSI) weekly maintenance and analysis; Seasonality & Terminal stock reporting and analysis; Pre-promotional analysis & planning to ensure profit and sales targets are achievable and all options explored; Developing recommendations as to how retail and/or trading propositions should be adjusted to drive improved performance; Responsible for the measurement of key trading initiatives - defining and measuring the right customer KPIs to define success and combining with other metrics (e.g. financial metrics) to give a clear view of performance; Promotional profitability analysis to include the promotional items & the wider halo effect, footfall drivers (stores) & traffic drivers (web). You Do you have the following skills and experience? Degree educated in numerate discipline (e.g. Maths, Economics); Ability to turn complex data into simple, actionable insights and explain complex analysis to non-technical stakeholders; Experience using data extraction/modelling tool (SAS, SQL, R); Advanced Excel skills. What's in it for you? 30 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme An extra day off to celebrate your birthday Staff discount up to 33% Company incentives