Financial Analyst

Hallmark Corporate; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hallmark Corporate is seeking a Financial Analyst to contribute to accounting and reporting across diverse businesses. You will support the close process, prepare financial statements, and perform reconciliations while partnering with subsidiaries to ensure policy alignment.

The role offers exposure to forecasting, planning and governance, with opportunities to grow technical accounting knowledge and leverage automation tools. Hybrid work at Hallmark Headquarters with some remote days.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business.
• At least one (1) year of experience in accounting, reporting or public accounting.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Support the close process and prepare financial reporting.
• Perform account reconciliations and analyze financial information.
• Support forecasts and plans and ensure capital spend is recorded correctly.
• Partner with subsidiaries and functional teams to align with Hallmark policies.
• Develop automation and improves processes within accounting and reporting.
• Assist with technical accounting research and GAAP interpretations.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business

Tools

SAP

HFM

Blackline

Microsoft Teams

Power BI

Power Query

Power Automate

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

Description

WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

Hallmark's Corporate Accounting and Reporting department is at the center of the company's financial reporting process, helping connect Hallmark's financial results to the decisions that move the business forward. The team leads consolidated internal and external reporting processes, ensures accounting records align with GAAP and Hallmark policies, and partners with teams across the organization to provide reliable accounting support and impactful financial insight.

THE ROLE AND WHY IT MATTERS

Are you looking for an opportunity to build your accounting career while gaining exposure to a diverse portfolio of businesses and corporate functions? As a Financial Analyst, you will contribute to meaningful accounting and reporting work while developing a well-rounded understanding of Hallmark's businesses and corporate functions while partnering with operating subsidiaries across the organization. Your work will include supporting the close process, preparing financial reporting, completing account reconciliations, analyzing financial information, supporting forecasts and plans, and ensuring capital spend is accurately recorded and aligned with Hallmark policies.

This role offers the chance to grow in a collaborative environment where curiosity, organization, communication, and resourcefulness are valued. This is a great opportunity for candidates with experience in accounting, financial and operating reporting, public accounting, systems, reconciliations, or automation tools, to apply those skills while continuing to strengthen both your technical accounting foundation and your problem-solving skills while supporting work that matters across Hallmark.

This is a progressive role that will be filled at the level based on the skills and experience of the selected candidate.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (the following is required to be considered for this role)

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business
• At least one (1) year of experience in accounting, reporting or public accounting
• Experience using Microsoft excel

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (your application will stand out if you have the following)

• Professional certifications or advanced degrees (Masters of Accountancy, CPA, MBA)
• Knowledge of GAAP and its application with technical accounting research experience
• Prior experience in public accounting
• Experience with accounting and consolidation systems (SAP and HFM preferred)
• Experience with account reconciliation software (Blackline preferred)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Power Query, Power BI, Power Automate or similar tools
• Great organizational skills and resourcefulness with the ability to identify and solve problems
• Effective verbal and written communication skills

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

• This position offers a hybrid work arrangement, giving you the best of both worlds: collaborating in person at Hallmark Headquarters in Kansas City, MO and enjoying the flexibility of working remotely. Our team works in the office 1-2 days a week.
• This is a progressive role designed to grow with you. We'll match the job level to your skills and experience so you can hit the ground running and keep building your career.
• Hallmark is committed to recognizing and rewarding performance. Employees are eligible for annual merit-based increases, aligned with individual and company performance.
• In alignment with our culture of care, Hallmark offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision plans, paid time off, 401K with company match, and profit‑sharing.

In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and its subsidiary companies will hire only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. Hallmark does not generally provide sponsorship for employment.

Employment by Hallmark is contingent upon the signing of the Employment Agreement, signing of an agreement to arbitrate in connection with the Hallmark Dispute Resolution Program, completing Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification and satisfactory reference and background checks.

Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally-protected status. Principals only please.

HALLMARK - Because Connecting With Each Other Has Never Been More Important

For more than a century, Hallmark has been bringing people together and improving the relationships that matter most. That's why millions of people all over the world connect with the Hallmark brand. It has always been a mission so much bigger than any one of us who work here. Today, we need empathetic learners, strategic thinkers, and enthusiastic visionaries with diverse experiences and skills to help us create the rest of Hallmark's second century as we shift to a more digitally savvy, unified approach that combines the best of brick-and-mortar retail with the efficiency of dot-com spaces. Help us imagine what our next hundred years could look like!

When you join Hallmark, we will go out of our way to make you feel like part of the team, even in a remote/hybrid work environment. In the day-to-day, we'll make the best use of the skills and talents you already have. We'll also give you leadership opportunities and show you multiple potential pathways to future success.

Our culture of care for our consumers and for one another shows in the way we embrace different backgrounds, identities, and working styles, deliberately seeking out ways to be more inclusive both internally among our work groups and externally through the things we make and sell to our retail partners and consumers. We believe that a broadly inclusive, equitable approach is also our best path to future success. We're seeking out those who can bring a fresh perspective to our business and would love your input as someone new to our team! We can only change and grow when we intentionally include new perspectives-like yours.

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