Overview

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Job Introduction

Main Responsibilities

  • Lead weekly trading and revenue reporting, working with Account Managers to support variance analysis and performance insights. 
  • Prepare and present updates in weekly trading meetings, highlighting trends, risks and opportunities.
  • Partner with Management Accounts and Business Development Team in monthly accounts reviews, ensuring accuracy and clarity of performance reporting. 
  • Lead the annual budget and in year forecasting process across all Partner accounts and new business pipeline, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy and financial targets.   
  • Build and maintain robust financial models for all new business partnership opportunities, supporting investment decisions and commercial negotiations.
  • Evaluate performance of existing partnerships through regular analysis, identifying underperformance and recommending corrective actions. 
  • Support the integration of acquired companies through alignment of local partnership financials and performance metrics with the Group wide commercial strategy, ensuring consistent reporting and decision-making frameworks.
  • Collaborate with teams from newly acquired businesses to understand legacy partnership models and identify opportunities for value creation and risks
  • Collation and analysis of financial information for Group competitors and potential acquisition targets to expand and maintain central live valuation model.
  • Develop and maintain a suite of KPIs to track financial and operational performance, ensuring visibility of success metrics and progress over time. 
  • Identify and communicate risks and opportunities across the partnership portfolio and new business pipeline, providing actionable insights and influencing decisions that drive profitability and growth.  
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment on commercial assumptions, reporting and decision-making. 
  • Provide indirect line management, to Junior Analyst who supports with the delivery of the Weekly Trading reporting. 

The Ideal Candidate

  • Qualified/Part-qualified finance professional who is commercially minded 
  • Experience in either Management Accounts or Commercial Finance roles. 
  • Strong analytical skills to interpret financial data, prepare reports, business case modelling and forecasting to inform decision making. 
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey complex financial insights to non-finance stakeholders and collaborate cross functionally.
  • Proven and demonstrable ability to build productive working relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues. 
  • Strong critical thinking skills to identify issues and problem solving. 
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities, demonstrating resilience and flexibility. 
  • Good base knowledge of accounting principles and practices, and investment appraisal methodologies.
  • Experience in previous Business Partnership role is advantageous.

About the Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings 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 wellbeing.

Benefits

  • Pension
  • 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
  • Save As You Earn scheme
  • Financial Wellbeing Support
    • Financial Education Tools
    • Salary Advance
  • Seasonal incentive schemes
  • Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
  • Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
  • Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
  • Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

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

For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email) 

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.

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Salary Details: £45,000 – £50,000 dependant on experience

Location: Century House Brunel Road Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate

Job Reference: cardfac/TP/1417897/27890

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