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Exciting opportunity alert! Join our team at Card Factory 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.
* Monitoring and tracking project costs, benefits, and KPIs to ensure alignment with financial targets and deliverables.
* Managing cost centre and projects month-end accounts closure through analysis and recommending appropriate accounting treatment and proposing journals to Management Accounts team.
* Conducting in-depth financial analysis to support business projects and key stakeholders including profitability assessments, cost-benefit analysis, and scenario planning.
* Collaborating across the business teams to develop and validate business cases before submission to the Project Approval Committee.
* Communicating financial insights and recommendations to stakeholders to support strategic planning processes and resource allocation.
* Supporting the development of project budgets, forecasts, and funding proposals.
* Creating and maintaining accurate financial models for projects forecasts, actuals, and performance metrics.
* Identifying and proactively addressing project risks related to costs with an impact on financial performance.
* Supporting 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:
* 25% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online.
* Save As You Earn scheme.
* Financial Wellbeing Support.
* 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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Finance and Sales
Industries
Retail
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