Finance Business Partner

About the role

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. You’ll ensure ideas stack up and spend is smart, helping 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 offers autonomy to lead and challenge, leveraging your technical expertise and stakeholder skills to make real commercial impact.

This is a hybrid role with 2 days per week in our Wakefield office.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact financial insight to shape strategic projects, including building robust business cases and modelling investment returns.
• Partner with the CIO and IT teams on £10m of spend, challenging project performance, explaining variances, and highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Maintain oversight of budgets, forecasts, and long-term plans to ensure financial control.
• Oversee project accounting and fixed assets, ensuring accurate reporting and clear guidance on key accounting decisions.
• Track benefits, support efficiency plans and covenant compliance.
• Lead a Commercial Finance Analyst to ensure great ideas translate into measurable value.

Requirements

• 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 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 to deliver rigorous and meaningful insight.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience of SAP.
• Experience of working in retail or a similar industry.

Pay

From £55,000