Job Description

Location: London Store Support Centre & Home - colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.

Why join us

Joining the Finance team at Sainsbury's offers a unique opportunity to contribute to our strategic commitment of delivering strong and sustained cashflow as a business. As a Finance Analyst focusing on FP&A Working Capital in a project role, you will be at the forefront of driving impactful change and supporting the business in identifying and leveraging opportunities within Working Capital. With a strong emphasis on collaboration, development, and continuous improvement, this role provides a platform for growth and innovation within a supportive and dynamic environment.

What you'll do

You will play a pivotal role in supporting the strategic objectives of the business by identifying and delivering on commitments related to cash flow optimisation. Your responsibilities will involve creating analytics to uncover opportunities within Working Capital, preparing and presenting project review packs with insightful analysis, developing dashboards and insights on stock and trade payables for forecasting purposes, and providing ad hoc analysis and recommendations for cashflow management. Additionally, you will collaborate with the project team and business stakeholders, contribute to upskilling and knowledge sharing within the finance team, and step in to cover for the Finance Manager when necessary, demonstrating your strong financial control, commercial acumen, and ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders of varying backgrounds.

Who you are

You are a professionally qualified accountant with a keen eye for detail and strong analytical skills. Your ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights, coupled with your proficiency in Excel and financial modelling tools, enables you to provide valuable support in tracking and maximising cashflow benefits for the business. With your commercial acumen, collaborative nature, and self-motivated approach, you excel in delivering high-quality financial analysis, influencing stakeholders, and driving strategic financial decisions to support the organisation's long-term goals.

Essential Criteria

• Professionally Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA) or studying towards qualification
• Demonstrates advanced use of Excel to analyse numerical data and produce actionable insights, with evidence of clearly communicating findings to stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience in using Power BI. Alteryx and/or MicroStrategy are also desirable
• Evidences delivery and maintenance of robust financial controls, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and consistency in financial reporting
• Demonstrates ability to communicate financial information effectively to stakeholders with varying levels of financial understanding, adapting approach as required
• Shows ability to work independently to prioritise tasks, solve problems, and deliver accurate outputs within established frameworks, while contributing to team objectives

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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).