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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 be a key player in driving strategic and financial decisions that impact the overall success of the organisation. As a Commercial Finance Analyst in the retail cost team, you will collaborate cross-functionally with business stakeholders, providing valuable financial insights and analysis to support value creation and business performance. With a focus on continuous improvement and innovation, this role presents a stimulating environment where you can enhance your finance acumen, contribute to meaningful projects, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a leading multi-channel retail business, as well as supporting on achieving Sainsbury's Save and Invest to Win initiative.
What you'll do
As a Commercial Finance Analyst, you will work with project managers across retail and manage/report against our savings delivery plan. You'll play a crucial role in supporting the division to achieve their strategic and financial objectives by providing financial analysis, insight, and challenge to stakeholders. You will act as a key liaison between non-finance and finance colleagues, ensuring alignment in financial projections and collaborating closely with other core divisions. Your responsibilities will include interpreting management reporting, identifying risks and opportunities, and contributing towards the development of financial plans and propositions. Your success in this role will be demonstrated by your ability to deliver accurate analysis, communicate valuable business insights, and enhance overall performance through effective financial management and strategic decision-making.
Who you are
You are a dedicated and results-driven professional with a keen eye for detail and a passion for accuracy. Working towards becoming a Professionally Qualified Accountant, you possess strong commercial acumen and excel in driving excellent financial and commercial performance. Your effective communication and influencing skills, coupled with your ability to translate data into valuable business insights, enable you to provide financial analysis, challenge stakeholders, and contribute to strategic decision-making processes. With a high level of pace, energy, and resilience, you thrive in a fast-paced environment, working collaboratively and independently to support the Division in achieving its strategic and financial objectives.
Essential Criteria
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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.
hackajob is partnering with Sainsbury's Tech to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.