Card Factory
Finance Business Partner
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About The Job
Cardfactory – Finance Business Partner (Transformation) – Wakefield – From £55,000
As a Finance Business Partner at cardfactory, you won’t just crunch numbers—you’ll shape the future of the business. Sitting at the heart of our change agenda, you’ll bring energy, insight and a healthy dose of curiosity to every project. Making sure ideas stack up and spend is smart; your work will help us to bring our strategy to life. Partnering with central cost centres, IT and transformation teams, you’ll turn data and forecasting into decisions; driving better value across the board. This role is a true business partnering role with autonomy to lead and challenge. If you’re looking for an opportunity where you can leverage your technical expertise and stakeholder skills to make real commercial impact—this could be the one for you.
Please note, this is a hybrid role with 2 days per week in our Wakefield office.
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What You’ll Do
In this role, you’ll deliver high-impact financial insight to shape strategic projects—from building robust business cases and modelling investment returns to partnering with the CIO and IT teams on ~£10m of spend. You’ll challenge project performance, explain variances, and highlight risks and opportunities, while keeping budgets, forecasts and long-term plans on track. With oversight of project accounting and fixed assets, you’ll ensure accurate reporting, strong financial control, and clear guidance on key accounting decisions. You’ll also track benefits, support efficiency plans and covenant compliance, and lead a Commercial Finance Analyst—making sure great ideas translate into measurable value.
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What you’ll bring
- Qualified accountant, or equivalent relevant experience, with a strong background in management accounting and business partnering with budget holders
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the confidence to work with and challenge non-finance colleagues constructively
- Proven experience of applying a range of investment appraisal techniques to support decision-making
- Ability to build effective relationships, influence and challenge stakeholders, and improve commercial decision-making
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to analyse and present information clearly using tools such as Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong attention to detail and the tenacity to work through complexity in order to deliver rigorous and meaningful insight
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- Experience of working in retail or a similar industry
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