Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

Job Introduction

Exciting opportunity alert! Join our team at cardfactory as a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst. We are looking for a Qualified / Part-qualified finance professional with a strong commercial mindset, resilience, and a drive to add value. Essential experience in a commercial background.

As part of the team reporting to the Senior Commercial Finance Manager, you will support Transformation and IT functions. Your key responsibilities include tracking costs and benefits, managing budgets, and leading monthly cost centre reviews. Success in this role depends on meeting financial targets, proactive risk identification, and support development of strategic business cases.

Your contribution is crucial to our company's growth and transformation, providing financial insights for strategic decisions. Operating on smart working principles, you will split your time between our support centre in Wakefield (2-3 days onsite) and remote work.

Join us at cardfactory and be a key player in driving financial oversight and success in critical projects. #Finance #CommercialFinance #Opportunity

Main Responsibilities

• Monitor and track project costs, benefits and KPIs to ensure alignment with financial targets and deliverables
• Manage cost centre and projects month-end accounts closure through analysis and recommending appropriate accounting treatment and proposing journals to Management Accounts team
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis to support business projects and key stakeholders including profitability assessments, cost-benefit analysis and scenario planning
• Collaborate across the business teams to develop and validate business cases before submission to Project Approval Committee
• Communicate financial insights and recommendations to stakeholders to support strategic planning process and resource allocation
• Support the development of project budgets, forecasts and funding proposals.
• Create and maintain accurate financial models for projects forecasts, actuals and performance metrics
• Identify and proactively address project risks related to costs with impact on financial performance
• Support budgeting and reforecasting processes through collaboration with key stakeholders and preparing, analysing and reporting on financial data

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified / Part-qualified finance professional who is commercially minded
• Intellectual curiosity to understand the financial and non-financial drivers of the business and their implications
• Proven and demonstrable ability to build productive business relationships with a wide network of finance and non-finance colleagues, and manage workload according to priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication styles and confidence to influence a variety of senior stakeholders
• Desire to bring insight and challenge to the business
• Advanced proficiency in financial modelling and Excel
• Passionate about being part of a culture where continuous improvement is delivered
• Proactive and takes pride in output / robustness of financial analysis
• The tenacity to work through details and deliver rigorous and meaningful insight

About The Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland.  In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer.  This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey.  

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial well-being.

Benefits

• 25% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support       
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Opportunity to apply for Retail Apprenticeships
• Access to blended learning and development content
• Discounted mobile phone contracts
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly. 

No agencies, please.