Job Description

Job Category: Finance & Business Development
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Please note, this role is based out of our London Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.
Why join us
At Sainsbury's, we have a rich heritage of serving customers and helping them live well for less since 1869. As a member of our team, you become part of a trusted retailer committed to doing the right thing for our customers, colleagues, communities, suppliers, and the environment. We embrace innovation and continuously strive to improve our offerings, whether through pioneering self-service checkouts or expanding our family with brands like Argos, Habitat, and Bank. Joining us means being part of a culture that values talent and provides structured development and progression opportunities across the group. As a Finance Business Partner within our Retail Costs Finance team, you will have the opportunity to showcase your skills in providing valuable insights, analysis, and commentary to stakeholders, influencing decision-making to improve business performance. We offer a supportive and flexible work environment, enabling you to balance work and personal life while contributing to our shared vision.
What you'll do
As a member of the Retail Costs Finance team at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Labour function. As a Finance Business Partner, you will interpret management reporting to provide valuable insight, analysis, and commentary to stakeholders, challenging the business as needed. You will be responsible for identifying risks, anomalies, and opportunities, prioritising them, and working with the business to manage them effectively. A key aspect of this role will be ensuring alignment between multiple stakeholders by delivering clear and robust analysis in a timely manner. You will also collaborate with internal teams, such as our data team, to complete analysis and resolve business problems. Additionally, you will work closely with the Retail Reporting team, Change team and Centrals team to develop uniformity of reporting and performance evaluation across all Retail channels. As a Trainee or Qualified Accountant, you will bring strong financial control and commercial acumen to the role, using your Excel and numerical skills to turn data into actionable insights. Your effective communication skills and ability to work autonomously will be vital, as you support the business in making decisions that enhance performance and contribute to Store Operating Profit and EBIT.
Who you are
As a Finance Analyst - Labour, you are a Trainee or Qualified Accountant with a strong commercial acumen and a track record of delivering strong financial control. Your expertise in turning data into insightful analysis and your ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels make you a valuable asset in supporting the business in making informed decisions that enhance performance. With your self-motivated and detail-oriented approach, you excel in prioritising tasks, solving problems, and maintaining accuracy. Your strong Excel skills, data and numerical aptitude enable you to provide valuable insights, support strategic initiatives, and drive improved financial performance across Store Operating Profit and EBIT.
Essential Criteria

• Working towards or already possess an accounting qualification (CIMA/ACA/ACCA)
• Demonstrable experience of working and improving month end procedures.
• Keen interest in financial impacts on commercial activities
• Evidence of partnering with financial and non-financial stakeholders within a complex organisational environment.
• Proven ability to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting and management information
• Capability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks under pressure, responding flexibly to business needs
• Advanced Excel skills for data analysis. Evidence of handily, interpreting and presenting large data sets. Coding & Big Data experience preferred

Responsibilities:
We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we're not handling projects, we're helping all corners of the wider group with what they're trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives 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 sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there's always something else around the corner, and we'll help and support you every step of the way. We're trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.
Qualifications:
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).

Skills Required